China qualifying quotes: Pirelli

Paul Hembery, motorsport director: "It's clear that tyre strategy is going to play a key role tomorrow and we saw that in qualifying today. With a difference of around 1.5 seconds between the medium and the soft tyre, qualifying on the softer compound was the natural choice in terms of outright time. However, the soft tyre delivers its best in qualifying over just one lap - a little bit like a qualifying tyre - which is why the drivers left it until late in many of the sessions to go out and set a time

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