Sentence examples for qualifying pace from inspiring English sources
"We always say it but we need to improve out qualifying pace," said the team principal, Stefano Domenicali.
The Spaniard's title charge was ultimately undermined by a slow start to the season, and a lack of qualifying pace throughout the year.
It was a feat he repeated on many occasions last year as qualifying pace often let down the Spaniard, only to make ground in the races.
Obviously, by now the race showed that his qualifying pace was a real indication of the potential of the new Ferrari.
Fernando Alonso is not expecting to see an upturn in Ferrari's qualifying pace in China this weekend despite a dash by several of the team's key players to their Maranello headquarters after last Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix.
With Alonso's 2012 title charge ultimately undermined by a slow start to the season and a lack of qualifying pace throughout the year, Domenicali hopes things will be different this time around.
The two drivers were evenly matched for pure pace in 2014, with Button out-qualifying his Danish team-mate 10-9 over the course of the season.
Vettel, struggling for pace throughout the weekend, chose to sacrifice qualifying and start on the 'medium' tyre and hope he would benefit from those ahead struggling in the early laps on the 'soft'soft
Spain have scored only 12 goals from seven qualifying games – a ratio that is considerably weaker than the pace set by the Holland and Germany (32 and 31 goals respectively from nine games).
The Spaniard admitted after the race in Austin, Texas, that Ferrari's lack of performance was "more and more frustrating because for whatever reason we are losing a bit of pace - now entering in Q3 (the top-10 qualifying shootout) is difficult; entering in the points is difficult".
It can't always be the case that my closest rival retires, as happened in the last two races and we can't think of carrying on to the end of the season with qualifying sessions like yesterday's, when our performance was almost a second off the pace".
