Kvyat bemoans engine problem

Red Bull driver Daniil Kvyat has blamed his poor qualifying performance on engine problems.

The Russian will line up in 17^th, ten places behind his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, and admitted that he is becoming frustrated with his start to the season.

He told reporters: "We think that there were a few energy issues in qualifying. But we need to analyse them deeper, understand what provoked them, and how it affected the performance.

"Let's wait and see where the real issue was. It's like a snowball - one thing leads to another."

"These things keep striking in qualifying and I can't really deliver a proper lap. We understand these things shouldn't happen, then once we tidy them up I think we will do OK.

"I think my lap was fine enough and more or less all I could do. If everything was together of course I wasn't 1.2 seconds off my team-mate - Daniel doesn't have the same issues.

"He extracted everything from the car, but he had a normal run, and I didn't."

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