Badoer 'not happy' after qualifying

Luca Badoer endured a miserable day at Spa on Saturday as the Italian, who had improved to eighteenth position in final practice, slipped to the back of the grid once again. The Italian's qualifying session ended in embarrassing fashion when taking a trip into the Les Combes barriers.

Having passed Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull on the outside approaching the Les Combes chicane, the Ferrari substitute for Felipe Massa dropped his left-rear wheel into the dirt before subsequently spinning back across the track and knocking the wheel off the car against the barriers.

"I'm not happy because, this morning, at the end of free practice, I had hoped to make it through to Q2," Luca explained later. "Unfortunately, partly because of traffic and partly because of a few small problems, I didn't manage to put together a perfect lap.

"I was counting on doing so on my final run but there was the incident with Vettel which then led to me going off the track and that put an end to my qualifying. I have made another step forward in terms of performance but it's still not enough.

"For me, the hardest thing is getting into a rhythm and finding the limits of the car. Unfortunately, there's no opportunity to do the testing that would put that right. I am sure that tomorrow I will perform better than I did in the Valencia race. I will try and do my best."

Source: GP Update