Qualifying results

POS DRIVER NATIONALITY ENTRANT TIME
1. Jarno Trulli Italy Toyota 1:33.431
2. Timo Glock Germany Toyota 1:33.712
3. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1:34.015
4. Jenson Button Britain Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:34.044
5. Lewis Hamilton Britain McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.196
6. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:34.239
7. Fernando Alonso Spain Renault 1:34.578
8. Felipe Massa Brazil Ferrari 1:34.818
9. Nico Rosberg Germany Williams-Toyota 1:35.134
10. Kimi Raikkonen Finland Ferrari 1:35.380
11. Heikki Kovalainen Finland McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.242
12. Kazuki Nakajima Japan Williams-Toyota 1:33.348
13. Robert Kubica Poland BMW Sauber 1:33.487
14. Nick Heidfeld Germany BMW Sauber 1:33.562
15. Nelson Piquet Brazil Renault 1:33.941
16. Adrian Sutil Germany Force India-Mercedes 1:33.722
17. Sebastien Buemi Switzerland Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:33.753
18. Giancarlo Fisichella Italy Force India-Mercedes 1:33.910
19. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 1:34.038
20. Sebastien Bourdais France Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:34.159


Qualifying Weight

Timo Glock Toyota 643.0kg (2nd)
Jarno Trulli Toyota 648.5kg (1st)
Rubens Barrichello Brawn GP-Mercedes 649.0kg (6th)
Fernando Alonso Renault 650.5kg (7th)
Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 652.0kg (17th)
Jenson Button Brawn GP-Mercedes 652.5kg (4th)
Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 652.5kg (5th)
Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 656.0kg (18th)
Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 659.0kg (3rd)
Felipe Massa Ferrari 664.5kg (8th)
Sébastien Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari 667.5kg (20th)
Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 670.5kg (9th)
Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 671.5kg (10th)
Nelsinho Piquet Renault 677.6kg (15th)
Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 678.5kg (11th)
Sébastien Buemi Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari 678.5kg (16th)
Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 679.0kg (19th)
Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 680.9kg (12th)
Nick Heidfeld BMW-Sauber 696.3kg (14th)
Robert Kubica BMW-Sauber 698.6kg (13th)

 

no wonder kubica was so slow, he's the heaviest **** out there

 

Webber got totally screwed in qualifying. By another German perhaps protecting Vettel?.....

 

Wayne, no vote in the poll. Go ahead and make the Bahrain pick now.....

 

Good call....

Hamilton predicted a top 5, and got 4th so they seem to know where they're at right now.

I'm trying to coordinate a trip to Spa in August, so interesting to see how the season unfolds....

 

KERS defeats the purpose of all the aero changes in the name more passing, except at the start.

Toyota's strategy was just terrible...Brawn is the man! But so is Newey...

 

So true!

+1 but they all can have it which then would make it different.

Watching Barichello bitch to JR. was funny & stupid at the same time. As Matchett said, put your hand back into the cockpit and drive.

It's kind a strange to say this but I think Kimi finishing 6th at Ferrari and fighting against Glock was a great from him and they should be pretty please with that result with the equipment they at the moment have.

 

Barichello pulled a chump move today, someone needs to inform him its not a DE

 

[QUOTE=MJSpeed;6515900]KERS defeats the purpose of all the aero changes in the name more passing, except at the start.

So does the super diffuser which creates lots of turbulents all over again.

Conspiracy theory about Sutil and Vettel? Come on, that's beyond silly.

 

Agreed and agreed!

BTW I think KERS goes back on as many cars as possible next race...

 

I guessed right, Button P1.

There was a shot where two cars were racing close, one car had KERS, the other did not. It was clear that KERS does indeed add advantage despite its weight penalty.

 

These desert races are just as boring to watch as prior years in spite (or because) of the new rules.
Back to Europe (yay), but to city course (boo). Wake me when they get to Spa.

The sidebar issues have become the main event- instead of the bad ol' days when it was Bridgestone vs. Michelin its now soft vs. hard , KERS vs. non-KERS and diffuser vs. non. Its only interesting to the extent that the powers that be (Mclaren and Ferrari) got the rules interpretation so wrong and Brawn/Newey got it so right. That said I'm happy for the latter and the change in the status quo.

But on track its just not that interesting is it? Still, I'll set my DVR to RECORD in 2 weeks (but really waiting for ALMS where in a 12/24 hour race the top cars change lead several times and they finish closer together than in an F1 sprint).

 

Yea, Trulli had a legit chance for the win, but for some unknown reason Toyota went with the hard compound for the long middle stint when every other team went with the super soft tires.

Trulli/Toyotas chance at the outright race win evaporated as the track became rubbered in as the race wore on and the harder compound worked better toward the end. Couple that with the fact that there was so much rolled up rubber off line and probably a great deal of low brake pedals, and Trulli could not attack Vettel at the end of the race

 

Got in 2 late , many plates at the moment ...........

Wanna bet for Spain , your bottle is officially finished and i need a replacement

Toyota's strategy failed due to the drivers , trulli never really delivered when he had to, so yes it was the wrong strategy for there level of drivers .


I was actually impressed with both KR and Hamilton , both had to make points and they did . Trulli had a good chance to make something happened and didn't . Toyota is still lost and it's there driver pairing at the tip of the cancer , how they expect to win without a top driver is beyond me....nothing like Brawn , an enigma, in a perfect storm , we will see if they hold form when the euro leg starts ....


Ray's bottle is finished so be prepared , i need ..........

 

That has nothing to do with location (country or desert), you can have a race in the middle of the jungle and if Herman Tilke (spell?) designs it, it will be boring!

Technical and fun for the drivers but boring as hell to watch. Thank goodness we had the "sidebar" stories to watch.