Pascal Wehrlein hopes Manor have the pace to fight rivals Sauber and Renault at this weekend’s German Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring.
This weekend’s race is Wehrlein’s home event and the young German hopes he can achieve a good result in front of his home crowd.
“At the end, I was quite happy; we made some progress today. To begin with, my fastest lap time was on the soft tyres, so the lap time wasn’t representative, but in second practice we were on the same strategy as everyone else and we aren’t far off the guys around us, so it’s a good sign.
“I hope we can improve for tomorrow. I really want to deliver a good job overall this weekend.”
Racing director Dave Ryan is hopeful for further improvements for tomorrow’s qualifying session.
“A reasonably positive first day today. We managed to get a good read on the cars and now it’s a case of evaluating the data and deciding how best to tackle tomorrow. We appear to be fairly competitive versus the cars around us; it’s looking pretty close and another 0.2s would put us up to P16 based on how things stand this afternoon.”
