Senna: To finish would be to win

Bruno Senna admits even finishing Sunday's Bahrain GP would feel like a victory to HRT after their massive struggles to even the grid.

Having failed to participate in pre-season testing and completing just 31 laps altogether in the three Bahrain practice session, Saturday's qualifying was a battle for Senna and his Hispania Racing team.

As to be expected the Brazilian qualified at the very back of the grid, beating only his team-mate Karun Chandhok, who only drove the HRT for the first time in qualifying.

Now Senna has set his sights on finish Sunday's race, which he reckons will be a victory in itself for the team.

"Obviously you can't expect much performance from us," Senna told the BBC. "We had a car that went through some big changes in terms of balance. The car was very hard to drive in qualifying.

"But at the end of the day we managed to do all practice sessions and that is a big victory for us. It will be like being on the podium if we can manage to finish the race tomorrow with both cars in one piece."


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