Sirotkin denies pressure from Kubica

Williams debutante Siotkin denies pressure from Kubica who is waiting behind the scenes for an F1 drive.

Siotkin was given the drivers seat by Williams despite Kubica pushing hard for his return to F1 after his nasty crash whilst Rallying.

Robert Kubica was then given the reserve driver role for the duration of the 2018 season allowing him to take part in pre-season testing.

Sirotkin managed to finish fastest out of the Williams trio, but Kubica did beat Stroll with a 1:19.629.

Sergey Sirotkin was interviewed by Crash net saying “I never felt it as pressure.

“There’s a lot of pressure here, but it doesn’t matter from which driver.

“If I wasn’t ready, I wouldn’t have expected it and I wouldn’t be here.

“First of all I have quite a good relationship with Robert, so there is not pressure or anything, just a nice working relationship.

“Of course, he has great experience which we are all trying to share.

“To be honest, I am quite happy with things between myself, Lance and Robert, how the relationship goes and how we are working together.”

We will see how well and beneficial that relationship is in less than two weeks time when lights go out in Australia.