<p>India's Narain Karthikeyan, who was ruled out of the season-opening race in Melbourne, will start from the last row after qualifying for the 24th position.<br /><br />Sutil did well to make it to Q2 but slipped to 17th position with a final timing of 1:37.593 as he encountered a gear problem.<br /><br />Resta, who was 16th in the Q1, did extremely well in Q2 and further improved his position with a timing of 1:37.370.<br /><br />"The first qualifying session was not too bad I think and I felt quite positive. But we did not improve too much in the second session, which I was a little surprised about and we had a problem with a mis-shift. But I know the team is working hard to try and solve these issues before the race tomorrow," Sutil said.<br /><br />Di Resta, on the other hand, preferred to take some positives out of the qualifying session today.<br /><br />"It was a very good job done by the team and equally, I think it was a very good lap by myself. We got more than I think we thought we were going to get out of it and I think that we have certainly closed the gap.<br /><br />"But tomorrow is going to be a long race, in tricky weather conditions, but I am certainly getting more excited now about our progress with regard to improving our performance in the future," he said.<br /><br />Karthikeyan clocked 1m 42.574s and that was sufficient only for the last position on the grid.</p>
<p>India's Narain Karthikeyan, who was ruled out of the season-opening race in Melbourne, will start from the last row after qualifying for the 24th position.<br /><br />Sutil did well to make it to Q2 but slipped to 17th position with a final timing of 1:37.593 as he encountered a gear problem.<br /><br />Resta, who was 16th in the Q1, did extremely well in Q2 and further improved his position with a timing of 1:37.370.<br /><br />"The first qualifying session was not too bad I think and I felt quite positive. But we did not improve too much in the second session, which I was a little surprised about and we had a problem with a mis-shift. But I know the team is working hard to try and solve these issues before the race tomorrow," Sutil said.<br /><br />Di Resta, on the other hand, preferred to take some positives out of the qualifying session today.<br /><br />"It was a very good job done by the team and equally, I think it was a very good lap by myself. We got more than I think we thought we were going to get out of it and I think that we have certainly closed the gap.<br /><br />"But tomorrow is going to be a long race, in tricky weather conditions, but I am certainly getting more excited now about our progress with regard to improving our performance in the future," he said.<br /><br />Karthikeyan clocked 1m 42.574s and that was sufficient only for the last position on the grid.</p>