After taking a fourth-place finish at the first Diriyah race, Bird’s crash in qualifying for race two left him on the back foot – resulting in the British driver only managing to find a 15th-place finish.
Bird says that Jaguar’s data was actually more encouraging from the second race and felt it was a “different level” to the first, feeling the opener left him “worried” despite just falling short of managing to make his way onto the podium.
“It was the other way around,” said Bird when asked if he took more encouragement from the opening race.
“You guys just wouldn’t have seen that because you haven’t looked at the data, you haven’t explored it.
“Race one, after that I was really worried because I felt like we had no pace. But there were reasons why, we got an okay result, but it could have been a lot better.
“If you take the pace from race two, [it’s a] different level. So, okay, I made a mistake in quali. We didn’t get any points but if you look at the pace, we’ll be doing…
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