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Stroll: "we don't have the package"

20:12, 07 Apr 2018

byJake Williams-Smith

Williams found themselves rooted to the bottom of the timing sheets at the end of Saturday.

Lance Stroll says Williams has work to do to make their 2018 car competitive. The Canadian will start the Bahrain Grand Prix from last position with teammate Sergey Sirotkin 18th.

"It has been a really hard weekend," he said. "It was disappointing for the team with both cars out in Q1 and it was not ideal. A lot of things are wrong. The balance isn't there, the grip is not high enough and we need more speed, so we need everything to go quicker.

"Last year in qualifying, my lap was four-tenths better than it was today. In the race, I hope we can go forward, but we don't have the package today to compete where we want to compete".

Sirotkin out-qualified his teammate in his second qualifying session of his F1 career but felt he could have performed even better than his final position showed.

"I think we could have hoped for a bit more," Sirotkin added. "The first lap I did was a really good lap. I don’t think we could squeeze out any more from there. The second lap with the second set of tyres was strongly affected by a very messy out-lap where I was fighting three or four cars for position.

"It was really messy preparation, I started the lap just behind a Sauber, and even then I knew the tyres and the brakes were not there.

"I almost managed to beat my previous lap-time, which shows we could potentially go another three or four tenths quicker, but I don’t know if that would have moved us any further ahead.

"I think, compared to Melbourne, we actually did a better job, in some terms, we maximised the performance of the car. We are moving ahead in one area, but we are missing something."