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BMW happy with Kubica's front row

BMW Sauber F1 driver Robert Kubica showed a stunning performance in qualifying on Saturday. The Polish race driver qualified himself for Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix in second position. Nick Heidfeld faced a difficult qualifying session. The German will start from P8 on Sunday.

Even though Kubica will start from the front row on Sunday Kubica wasn't completely satisfied with his performance in qualifying. He said: "It was a very difficult qualifying with the track breaking up in some corners, which is a disaster. It was easy to make mistakes with these conditions. When you missed the racing line by just ten or 20 centimetres you were on the marbles with very low grip. However, I'm very happy with second. Certainly it will be a tough race tomorrow on this track. Unfortunately I shall not be starting on the clean side. McLaren particularly looks very strong and I shall also have pressure from the Ferrari, but we have to see who is on which strategy."

Heidfeld's session was worse. He commented: "It was obviously better than two weeks ago. In Q2 I was just one tenth of a second behind Robert, but I'm not happy with my lap times in Q3. It is a start, but I still have a lot of work to do. Today it was extremely difficult to choose between the tyre compounds. First I thought the harder Prime would be quicker, but in the end I went for the softer Options. Normally the track conditions get better and better during qualifying, but here they became worse. We had an awful lot of marbles on the track. This has always been an issue here, but normally this has been in the race and not in Qualifying."

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