Nico Rosberg says his main target on Sunday is to cut team-mate Lewis Hamilton's lead after securing pole position for the Russian Grand Prix.
While Hamilton holds a 48-point lead in the drivers' championship, Rosberg had the upper hand throughout qualifying and took pole position by 0.3s. Having been on pole but lost out to Hamilton at the start both in Suzuka and at last year's Russian Grand Prix, when asked if he has a plan for Turn 1, Rosberg replied: “No not yet, I haven’t thought about it yet.
"At the moment I’m just enjoying being on pole and I will dig in to that this evening or tomorrow morning to work out a plan for that.
"Of course the constructors’ championship is a really important target for us this weekend. It would be amazing to clinch it for the second time so early on in the season so we are out to do that. At the same time of course I’m out here to try to reduce the gap to Lewis in terms of points.”
And Rosberg praised his Mercedes team for helping him get a car he was happy with despite such limited running in practice after Friday's rain and Carlos Sainz's crash on Saturday.
“I’m very happy. It’s been a difficult weekend actually because of the little running that we got, we didn’t get much practice. It worked out really well, I’ve got a good balance on the car so thanks to my engineers as well.
"We had to guess a little bit where it was going to be and it all worked out well. I felt comfortable, got some really good laps in and am very happy with that.”
Rosberg beats Hamilton to Sochi pole
AS IT HAPPENED: Russian Grand Prix qualifying
Gallery: Carlos Sainz's crash in FP3
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