Force India duo struggling with tyres

Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella will start from the final row of the grid after finishing over seven tenths of a second behind their closest rival.

The team's tech chief Mike Gascoyne admitted they were expecting a tough day following their tyre issues.

He is hopeful, however, that their race pace will be stronger.

"I think we knew from yesterday that it was going to be a difficult qualifying session," said Gascoyne. "We have been struggling to get the tyres to work and in qualifying both drivers have struggled with the grip so we ended up pretty much where we expected.

"We do know though that our race pace is always better when we get the tyres to run during the longer runs so we'll look to have a more competitive day tomorrow."

Fisichella, last today, admitted he was unhappy with the handling of his car.

"I'm not so happy with today as we struggled again with the balance and on my last lap I couldn't improve," he said. "I had some really big oversteer through sector two and lost around four tenths and then again through turn eight I lost some more time so I couldn't go faster than my second lap.

"It's a shame we couldn't start higher, but we do know we can stay with the others under race conditions so we have to look to have a good strategy tomorrow."