His car's ride height was too lowGiancarlo Fisichella says a Silverstone podium escaped him because of team error.
Renault principal Flavio Briatore admitted on Monday that the Roman driver qualified poorly 'because of our mistake', but did not elaborate.
However,
Fisichella - whose runaway teammate
Fernando Alonso netted his third win on the trot in England - told an Italian newspaper that his car had been set-up too close to the ground.
''The team's mistake cost me the front row,'' the 33-year-old said, ''otherwise I would have been able to fight with Alonso for the podium.”
He added: ''They did not tell me they were going to lower the car, which made it hit the track and be too slow.''
Fisichella explained that, due to the parc ferme rule, he was then stuck with the disadvantage in the race, and also had to run higher tyre pressures to keep the 'R26' from bottoming out.
He will test this week at Monza.
Source GMM CAPSIS International
