Jordan Duo Unhappy with Car Handling

Jordan driver Nick Heidfeld was unhappy with the handling of his car in today's qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix after finishing over a second behind the closest of his rivals.

"I was very happy with pre-qualifying but experienced a lot of oversteer and a nervous car in qualifying itself," said Heidfeld, 16th quickest today. "Under those circumstances it was difficult to get more out of it.

"I didn't expect so much difference between the two sessions and I'm not sure what the reason is as overall this weekend we have been looking better than expected. It may be that this particular track suits our package, but I hope we can continue the trend tomorrow and in the next few races."

Heidfeld's teammate Giorgio Pantano also struggled with the balance of his Jordan and finished right behind the German driver in 17th position.

"I am a little bit frustrated with how qualifying went after seeing what we did this morning, when with used tyres the car set-up and balance were quite good," the Italian said. "When I went out on fresh tyres though I had some problems, with the balance seeming to go completely the other way from the progress we made after free practice.

"I don't know what caused this but it meant we didn't find a good lap time - I lost time on the last two corners of my qualifying lap due to that. The good thing is that the balance felt better to me on used tyres so it should be okay in the race."