Nico Rosberg took his best qualifying position of the 2011 season today in Shanghai after securing fourth, just behind the two McLaren’s and Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull.
The Mercedes driver was almost a second behind Vettel, but only two-tenths adrift of Lewis Hamilton in third. He believes he can put some pressure on frontrunners during the race.
“It’s a positive day for us. It’s been very difficult the last few weeks, and today we’ve improved the car, that’s clear, just with very simple, basic things – and obviously a lot of hard work too. It’s nice to see,” he told AdamCooperF1.
“So we’re not there where we want to be yet, but now we’re very close to McLaren, and way ahead of Ferrari, today at least. So that’s a good thing, and even for race pace for tomorrow there’s a good chance I can do a good race, because we’ve improved our race pace too,” he added.
“I think I can put some pressure on them [McLaren]. Why not? We’ll see.”
