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Stevens sure he would have made 107%

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Will Stevens says he is sure he would have been able to get within the 107% time in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix if he had run.

A fuel system issue prevented Stevens from taking to the track during Q1 having run in all three practice sessions at Sepang. With Roberto Merhi outside the 107% time in the second Manor, the team must now wait to see if it allowed to race and Stevens pointed to his FP2 time as an indication he would have qualified himself.

"It's incredibly disappointing for me and team because the pace shown in FP2 we would have been inside the 107%, and with track temperatures cooler I would like to think we would have made it safely inside 107," Stevens said.

Stevens' time in FP2 was half a second quicker than the cut-off time in Q1, and he hopes it will be enough to convince the stewards to let him start on Sunday.

"I'm not sure what happens now, but personally from my side of the garage we showed we could comfortably get inside 107 per cent. The time in FP2 would have seen us through in quali."

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.