Davidson laments wrong tyre choice

The Super Aguri driver finished in 12th position one lap down after a wrong tyre choice when the rain began meant he lost a lot of time and all his chances of fighting for a point-scoring finish.

"It was a tough day with the weather causing havoc for all of the teams out there," said Davidson. "It was difficult to know what tyre to be on at what time, but in the dry running our car seemed to have the pace over the Honda and I had a nice fight with Rubens for P12/P11 at the time.

"That was good fun and the best part of the race for me and I just had to wait to see how it would unfold from there for the last stint. We then got caught out in the rain at the end and probably made the wrong tyre choice at the time, and that was key to the race really.

"It was a good sign that we had the speed, but overall it was a disappointing day as we could not capitalise on the mixed fortunes of the other runners."

Teammate Takuma Sato retired from the race with a hydraulic failure, but the Japanese driver said he had enjoyed a fun race.

"It was great fun at the start of the race having to run in the rain on the dry tyre," admitted Sato. "I made up a lot of positions and was P10 by the end of Lap 1.

"But then the rain was too strong to keep on the dry tyre and I came back to the pit on the next lap, before the red flag. At the restart we looked as though we had reasonable race pace, but unfortunately I had a hydraulic failure and had to retire from the race, which is a big shame."