29 August,2010 08:32 AM IST | | A Correspondent
A year ago at this circuit came Force India's glorious moment when Giancarlo Fisichella powered to pole. Adrian Sutil
A year later, Adrian Sutil will start today's Belgian Grand Prix from eighth position but the German is more than happy with his show in the qualifying on Saturday.
"Getting into the top ten was my aim today so I'm really happy. It was a tough qualifying of course with the showers and we had to be quick in taking decisions on the pitwall and on the circuit we had to react quite quickly as you never knew what was going to happen," Sutil said.
"I was lucky to go through in Q1 as I did my quickest lap on the intermediate tyres and the track was drying. Then second qualifying went well and in Q3 I was quite happy with the one lap I did.
"We only had one set of option tyres left for Q3 and I just missed out on a second lap as at the end of the first lap it had started to rain.
"I'm looking forward to the race tomorrow, I think there will be a lot of overtaking maneouvres, particularly up the hill and into Eau Rouge after the start, and you can really attack throughout the race."
Teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi failed to make it into Q3 and was forced to settle for 14th. However he will start the race from 12th place following penalties handed to both Mercedes drivers.
"It wasn't such an enjoyable qualifying as everything was very confusing and stressful with the rain in Q1. But overall we made an improvement to our car as we have had some problems with top speed from Friday," Liuzzi said.
