smlporsche

As one of the comentators said Massa will have some explaining to do to the Italian press.

What a **** poor management decision..somebody was asleep at the wheel.

Kudos to JB & Brawn GP

A.Wayne

Yes sah !

The more the Midget and the **** change F1 , the more everyone grine their teeth and cuss and the sport get's more exciting every year..

Here's to their madness .................................................


Congrats again to Brawn and errr , ahhh, Yes Jenson Button

I guess wikipete is out looking for his secret hidden info showing Mclaren on pace with the Ferrari's anymore numbnut analysis petey ?


Vettel is serious , SERIOUS TALENT!!! ......................................

Trulli ........................................................................ ............





Button grabs second consecutive pole

By Matt Beer Saturday, April 4th 2009, 10:00 GMT


Jenson Button held off a challenge from Jarno Trulli to take his second straight pole position in Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying.

Sebastian Vettel and Rubens Barrichello were third and fourth, but as both have to take post-qualifying penalties, Timo Glock will make it two Toyotas in the top three.

Felipe Massa - the pole-sitter at Sepang for the past two years - will start only 16th after a misjudgement by Ferrari in Q1.

Trulli took provisional pole for Toyota early in Q3, but was then pushed back to third by Brawn GP's Button and Red Bull driver Vettel.

However Trulli stayed out for a second straight flying lap on the soft tyres and found a further 0.3s - moving back up to first by 0.004s over Button.

The Melbourne winner then raised the bar with a 1m35.181s run on his final flying lap, putting him half a second clear of the field.

Trulli also improved, but not by quite enough, leaving him second.

Third-placed Vettel will lose ten places due to his penalty for tangling with Robert Kubica in Melbourne, while fourth-fastest Barrichello is set to drop back five spots after changing his Brawn's gearbox in practice.

Glock beat Williams's Nico Rosberg to fifth, but the pair will actually share row two.

Mark Webber was seventh fastest in the second Red Bull, ahead of BMW's Robert Kubica. The Pole's team-mate Nick Heidfeld was squeezed out of the Q3 places when Alonso improved in the final seconds of Q2.

Kimi Raikkonen took ninth in another quiet session for Ferrari.

Having made it through to Q3 despite his poor health and Renault's unimpressive practice form, Alonso chose to only do one run and settled for 10th, suggesting he will start with heavy fuel.

The surprise of the session was Massa's shock early exit. Ferrari believed its first runs would be sufficient to easily get both drivers through so remained in the garage as most of its rivals headed out for final runs. The team could only look on helplessly as Massa was pushed back to 16th on the grid, while Raikkonen just made it through in 13th.

McLaren remained lodged in the midfield. Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen took 13th and 14th places, just 0.019s apart, behind Williams's Kazuki Nakajima, who again failed to match Rosberg's qualifying pace.

The Force Indias were again pushed back outside the top 15 despite looking set to reach Q2 earlier in the first segment.

Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil will start 18th and 19th, between Renault's Nelson Piquet and ahead of Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi, who went off the road on his final Q1 lap. This time his team-mate Sebastien Bourdais made it through to Q2, but could not better 15th.

Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
1. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:35.058 1:33.784 1:35.181
2. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:34.745 1:33.990 1:35.273
3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:34.935 1:34.276 1:35.518
4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:34.681 1:34.387 1:35.651
5. Glock Toyota (B) 1:34.907 1:34.258 1:35.690
6. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:35.083 1:34.547 1:35.750
7. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:35.027 1:34.222 1:35.797
8. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:35.166 1:34.562 1:36.106
9. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:35.476 1:34.456 1:36.170
10. Alonso Renault (B) 1:35.260 1:34.706 1:37.659
11. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:35.110 1:34.769
12. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:35.341 1:34.788
13. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:35.280 1:34.905
14. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:35.023 1:34.924
15. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:35.507 1:35.431
16. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:35.642
17. Piquet Renault (B) 1:35.708
18. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:35.908
19. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:35.951
20. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:36.107


Post-qualifying car weights - Malaysia



From the 2009 season, the FIA is making public the weights of the cars, with their fuel load included, following Saturday's qualifying session.

Below is the weight of each car following qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix, sorted by qualifying position.

Pos. Driver Team Car weight (kg)
1. Button Brawn-Mercedes 660
2. Trulli Toyota 656.5
3. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 647
4. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 664.5
5. Glock Toyota 656.5
6. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 656
7. Webber Red Bull-Renault 656
8. Kubica BMW-Sauber 663
9. Raikkonen Ferrari 662.5
10. Alonso Renault 680.5
11. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 692
12. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 683.4
13. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 688
14. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 688.9
15. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 670.5
16. Massa Ferrari 689.5
17. Piquet Renault 681.9
18. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 680.5
19. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 655.5
20. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 686.5

MJSpeed

+1 on Vettel

And I'm glad to see you're coming around on Trulli....

MJSpeed

BTW Congrats to Brawn and Button...Awesome!!

Adrian Newey is the man!! (Of-course we knew that already)

wanna911

Why would BMW put so much more weight on Heidfelid? Looks like they took it for granted that he'd make Q3 even with a ton of fuel compared to Kubica.


But yeah, I agree, Pete's expertise shines through again. Mclarens on the 3rd row!!!! LOL.

A.Wayne

Always knew Trulli was fast MJ, he is just not a winner .........................

ew928

Commentators were musing about the Ferrari's having mechanical difficulties so Massa didn't go for more laps.
And they were guessing that Raikonnen was not running KERS. Thinks their batteries/charge-discharge system isn't working well.

Veloce Raptor

Vettel is awesome.

KERS is lunacy.







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smlporsche

I wonder who'll want to use KERS in the rain...
That would scare the $hit out of me..

Veloce Raptor

I am sure the safety marshals will be equally enthusiastic.







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ew928

Oh c'mon. It's just a mild tingling.
Bzzzt Zaaaap Pow.


My crazy welding professor (part state school) used to demonstrate to the state welders he teaches that it's safe to actually grab the 2 leads of a Lincoln buzz box. They sometimes have to do bridge supports and have to weld standing in water. The buzz box is designed to give a scary tingling but not hurt you.
Not sure how human friendly KERs is especially after the BMW tech who got thrown? from the KERS grounding itself to chassis and steering wheel.

Wonder if FIA issued those grounding rods you see the utility crews use when they go work in live transmission lines.

StoogeMoe

Vettel's my boy. Hope it rains tomorrow. He's going straight to the front.

ew928

Would like to see him claw past those 10 bull$hit places he lost to the stewards.
Win on track.
Lose to the stewards.

Think it was BBC radio that said even Bernie Ecclestone said he couldn't understand why Vettel was penalized for racing his opponent.

MTosi

I think it was very apparent last year after Monza Vettel is going to be a superstar. Despite a few mistakes (which he has owned up to) it also looks like he has a good head on his shoulders along with the ability to drive (unlike a certain other superstar...).

A.Wayne

Stoolmacher ?