Michael Schumacher will start the Korean Grand Prix from 12th on Sunday after failing to make it through to the final session of qualifying.
The German blamed vibrations, thought to be coming from a flat-spotted tyre, as the reason for his lack of pace in Q2, but insisted their were positive to take away from the afternoon.
“To start with the positives of today’s qualifying, I have saved two fresh sets of option tyres which is always helpful,” he said.
“On the other hand, it was obviously a pity what happened. Everything went normally in Q1, and from what you can expect of the tyres under normal circumstances, it was absolutely justified to go for just one run in Q2. But unfortunately I could feel that something was not right when leaving the pits as I had vibrations straight away.”
Having left it too late to change the tyres and go for a second run, Schumacher had hoped he done enough to remain in the top-ten, but knocked out by Paul di Resta and Jaime Alguersuari.
“All that was left for us to do was hope that the gap would be big enough to remain in the top ten but that turned out not to be the case. We will now have a close look into what exactly happened and fully concentrate on trying to make up some positions in the race tomorrow.”
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