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“Qualifying went well today apart from Q3,” said Mark after qualifying eighth for tomorrow’s Spanish Grand Prix. “I was disappointed with the lap in Q3 and lost a lot of time in the last sector; I’m normally quite strong there, but I was in trouble with the rear tyres.”

“The beginning wasn’t too bad,” says Mark, “but we lost quite a bit of time in the second stint trying to clear people. We went aggressive on the first few out laps, which meant we jumped people, but the tyres didn’t like it.”

I would have like to have got a bit more out of the car in that session and been a bit further up, but seventh with a penalty isn’t the end of the world,” says Mark after qualifying fifth on the road. However, he will face his 200th Grand Prix start from seventh after last weekend’s penalty was applied.

News from Infiniti Red Bull Racing following Friday’s free practice sessions ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend.

Mark sums up his disappointing Chinese Grand Prix weekend in understated fashion….”We have had a few problems this weekend; I think we could have done something from our start position today, but it wasn’t meant to be.”

“It’s very disappointing. Q1 went okay; I was comfortable with the car and we had a good plan for the rest of the session” Mark said after running out of fuel in Q2.

Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s news following Friday’s free practice sessions in Shanghai ahead of this Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix.

“There’s a bit of history to this as well; my mind in the last 15 laps was thinking about a lot of things, but I was happy with the way I drove. I tried to isolate what happened at the end and we got something out of it today, but of course I’m not satisfied with the result,” says Mark after he ended up second in today’s Malaysian Grand Prix.

“It’s disappointing to finish fifth,” said Mark after missing out on a final shot at pole position in today’s qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix. “We didn’t get the timing quite right in the last part of Q3, I thought I had more laps.”

News from Infiniti Red Bull Racing following Friday’s free practice sessions ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday.