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Force India struggles in qualifying

The Force India Formula One Team will start tomorrow's German Grand Prix with Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella in 19th and 20th positions respectively following a tough Qualifying today at the Hockenheimring.

"I'm a bit disappointed to be honest with this qualifying as I think we could have done a bit better," said Sutil. "My second run was looking good, the car felt well balanced and I was comfortable, but then I ran a little bit wide on the last corner going into the straight and lost a couple of tenths. My last run was not so good as the balance had changed a little, but I did improve a bit, just not enough. It's a shame, but as we look better in race conditions we will see for tomorrow."

Fisichella commented, "We did three runs today, and on my fastest lap I hit some traffic in the last sector and couldn't record the time I think we could have done round here, so I'm quite disappointed. Of course we don't know what's going to happen in the race tomorrow, there are some overtaking possibilities at this track so we can try and make up some places like this."

Mike Gascoyne, chief technical officer added, "Giancarlo struggled really for balance all day and the windier conditions in qualifying upset the car a little bit, while Adrian had similar problems and ran wide on one of his quicker laps. We did expect to be closer to the group in front, but once again we know we have a stronger race pace relative to the others so we have to look for more tomorrow."

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