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Tyre choice critical for Rosberg

Nico Rosberg admits that his selection of tyre choices for Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix could make or break the afternoon, in terms of which order to use the two Bridgestone compounds during the race. Teams will now make their decisions, with factors such as grid position and the weather the greatest influences.

Rosberg will be Williams' leading challenger from ninth on the grid

With ninth and twelfth places, the two Williams-Toyota cars secured upper mid-grid places in qualifying, with German Rosberg leading the charge. "It really wasn't easy to choose between the Soft and the Hard compound to do your fastest lap on today, or to keep a balanced car while changing between the two," he explained.

"I ended up with some understeer and maybe a lost a position because of that, but I'm on the clean side of the grid tomorrow, which will help us to get a good start and maybe gain some positions. Since we also have a good race car we will be targeting points, which is important for us as a team."

Nakajima is still searching for his first points of the campaign

Team-mate Nakajima, Japan's only current Formula One driver, will start 12th after being fourth in final practice. "It was generally a difficult qualifying session as the tyre choice was quite hard," he said, echoing his team-mate's feelings for what is forecast to be a dry race. "We weren't entirely sure whether the prime (Hard) or the option (Soft) would be better, as there wasn't much in it between the two, and this morning's practice didn't really clarify things. In Q1, I struggled with the option so we selected the prime for Q2, but unfortunately that wasn't much of an improvement and I didn't get the performance I wanted; it's going to be difficult to get into the points, but P12 is okay and I will be fighting hard."

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