Britain Saturday quotes: Renault
Vitaly Petrov - 14th: "I am disappointed, as we all came here with much higher expectations. The rain has disturbed things this weekend, there's no doubt about that. Today again, the weather has made it very difficult. As a result, we could not unlock our potential and secure the flying lap that we would have needed. Having said that, the car feels very strong and fast in high speed corners so I still remain optimistic that we can gain quite a few places in the race tomorrow. I hope our strategy is effective, because the DRS sector is not very long and overtaking opportunities here are limited. We will need to be very much on our game to take our performance up, but we are up to the challenge."
Nick Heidfeld - 16th: "At this stage, it's still difficult to see how much effect the changes made to the mapping rules had on our performance this weekend. It had an impact, of course, but our feeling is that today's situation is the result of several factors. The rain did make our preparations difficult, also. The car is not bad to drive and it does not seem slow, we've just not been in a position to fully exploit it. We struggled with the rear wing yesterday and then this morning, changed it for qualifying that hopefully worked better but obviously disappointed to only be in P16."
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