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F1 2012: the Spanish Grand Prix

Ferry_vO

Ferry_vO

Retired SOH Administrator
First seven out after Q1:

18: Senna
19: Petrov
20: Kovalainen
21: Pic
22: Glock
23: De la Rosa
24: Karthikeyan
 
Positions 11-17 after Q2:

11: Button
12: Webber
13: Di Resta
14: Hulkenberg
15: Vergne
16: Ricciardo
17: Massa

And the fastest time for Maldonado in Q2!
 
Q3 results:

1: Hamilton
2: Maldonado
3: Alonso
4: Grosjean
5: Raikkonen
6: Perez
7: Rosberg
8: Vettel
9: Schumacher
10: Kobayashi

Lots of tire saving in Q3, no time set for Vettel, Schumacher and Kobayshi. Still a good performance by Maldonado. First win this season for Kimi tomorrow?
 
One very odd qualifying session.
Maybe one for the Iceman but I'd never rule Alonso out on his home turf.
:kilroy:
 
Ferrari did show an improvement over the wekend so far (Atl east Alonso did..)

Meanwhile Hamilton has been excluded from the qualifying results, because "the stewards found his car did not have sufficient fuel onboard to comply with the rules on its return to parc ferme."

So Maldonado on pole position tomorrow!

Full story here: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2012/5/13340.html

Not the first time this has happened to McLaren and Hamilton.. Remember him pushing the car back to the pit in Canada?
 
Full results:

PosNoDriverTeamQ1Q2Q3Laps
DSQ4Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes1:22.583 1:22.465 1:21.70717
218Pastor MaldonadoWilliams-Renault1:23.380 1:22.105 1:22.28514
35Fernando AlonsoFerrari1:23.276 1:22.862 1:22.30215
410Romain GrosjeanLotus-Renault1:23.248 1:22.667 1:22.42414
59Kimi RäikkönenLotus-Renault1:23.406 1:22.856 1:22.48713
615Sergio PerezSauber-Ferrari1:24.261 1:22.773 1:22.53314
78Nico RosbergMercedes1:23.370 1:22.882 1:23.00517
81Sebastian VettelRed Bull Racing-Renault1:23.850 1:22.884 no time14
97Michael SchumacherMercedes1:23.757 1:22.904 no time15
1014Kamui KobayashiSauber-Ferrari1:23.386 1:22.897 no time14
113Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes1:23.510 1:22.94413
122Mark WebberRed Bull Racing-Renault1:23.592 1:22.9778
1311Paul di RestaForce India-Mercedes1:23.852 1:23.12514
1412Nico HulkenbergForce India-Mercedes1:23.720 1:23.17713
1517Jean-Eric VergneSTR-Ferrari1:24.362 1:23.26511
1616Daniel RicciardoSTR-Ferrari1:23.906 1:23.44211
176Felipe MassaFerrari1:23.886 1:23.44412
1819Bruno SennaWilliams-Renault1:24.9818
1921Vitaly PetrovCaterham-Renault1:25.2778
2020Heikki KovalainenCaterham-Renault1:25.5078
2125Charles PicMarussia-Cosworth1:26.5828
2224Timo GlockMarussia-Cosworth1:27.0328
2322Pedro de la RosaHRT-Cosworth1:27.5556
2423Narain KarthikeyanHRT-Cosworth1:31.1224
Q1 107% Time1:28.363

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Note - Hamilton originally qualified on pole, but was subsequently excluded due to a fuel irregularity. Karthikeyan failed to meet the 107% requirement so races at the stewards' discretion.
 
Ferry_vO said:
Meanwhile Hamilton has been excluded...
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Ouch! Whoever did the (non)filling up might not be around any more at the end of this season.
But if he is, he might have to avoid Lewis Hamilton. Time will tell.
Great birthday present for Sir Frank on his 70th!
Who'd have thought we'd see a Williams - let alone Maldonado - on pole this year?
Alonso suddenly is promoted to the front row, too.
But I think Lotus have a real chance of a victory, here: I do not think Pastor will maintain the pace, and the Ferrari isn't quick enough yet.
And Vettel did the unthinkable, cruising round a couple of slow laps in Q3, to have essentially brand new tyres for the race.
Seems this one will be mostly about tyre strategy!

NoDriverTeamGrid
18Pastor MaldonadoWilliams-Renault1
5Fernando AlonsoFerrari2
10Romain GrosjeanLotus-Renault3
9Kimi RäikkönenLotus-Renault4
15Sergio PerezSauber-Ferrari5
8Nico RosbergMercedes6
1Sebastian VettelRed Bull Racing-Renault7
7Michael SchumacherMercedes8
14Kamui KobayashiSauber-Ferrari9
3Jenson ButtonMcLaren-Mercedes10
2Mark WebberRed Bull Racing-Renault11
11Paul di RestaForce India-Mercedes12
12Nico HulkenbergForce India-Mercedes13
17Jean-Eric VergneSTR-Ferrari14
16Daniel RicciardoSTR-Ferrari15
6Felipe MassaFerrari16
19Bruno SennaWilliams-Renault17
21Vitaly PetrovCaterham-Renault18
20Heikki KovalainenCaterham-Renault19
25Charles PicMarussia-Cosworth20
24Timo GlockMarussia-Cosworth21
22Pedro de la RosaHRT-Cosworth22
23Narain KarthikeyanHRT-Cosworth23
4Lewis HamiltonMcLaren-Mercedes24

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Final results...

1
18
 Pastor Maldonado
Williams-Renault
66
Winner
1
25
2
5
 Fernando Alonso
Ferrari
66
+3.1 secs
2
18
3
9
 Kimi Raikkonen
Lotus-Renault
66
+3.8 secs
4
15
4
10
 Romain Grosjean
Lotus-Renault
66
+14.7 secs
3
12
5
14
 Kamui Kobayashi
Sauber-Ferrari
66
+64.6 secs
9
10
6
1
 Sebastian Vettel
Red Bull Racing-Renault
66
+67.5 secs
7
8
7
8
 Nico Rosberg
Mercedes
66
+77.9 secs
6
6
8
4
 Lewis Hamilton
McLaren-Mercedes
66
+78.1 secs
24
4
9
3
 Jenson Button
McLaren-Mercedes
66
+85.2 secs
10
2
10
12
 Nico Hulkenberg
Force India-Mercedes
65
+1 Lap
13
1
11
2
 Mark Webber
Red Bull Racing-Renault
65
+1 Lap
11
-
12
17
 Jean-Eric Vergne
STR-Ferrari
65
+1 Lap
14
-
13
16
 Daniel Ricciardo
STR-Ferrari
65
+1 Lap
15
-
14
11
 Paul di Resta
Force India-Mercedes
65
+1 Lap
12
-
15
6
 Felipe Massa
Ferrari
65
+1 Lap
16
-
16
20
 Heikki Kovalainen
Caterham-Renault
65
+1 Lap
19
-
17
21
 Vitaly Petrov
Caterham-Renault
65
+1 Lap
18
-
18
24
 Timo Glock
Marussia-Cosworth
64
+2 Laps
21
-
19
22
 Pedro de la Rosa
HRT-Cosworth
63
+3 Laps
22
-
DNF
15
 Sergio Perez
Sauber-Ferrari
37
+29 Laps
5
-
DNF
25
 Charles Pic
Marussia-Cosworth
35
+31 Laps
20
-
DNF
23
 Narain Karthikeyan
HRT-Cosworth
22
+44 Laps
23
-
DNF
19
 Bruno Senna
Williams-Renault
12
Accident damage
17
-
DNF
7
 Michael Schumacher
Mercedes
12
Accident
8
-

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Well that's what we were all saying about Williams, just a short time ago!

Wing_Z said:
...I do not think Pastor will maintain the pace, and the Ferrari isn't quick enough yet...
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I do love being made to eat my words, means the sport is less predictable than you give credit for.
5 winners in 5 races!

Pastor drove a faultless race, so credit to him.
But I actually thought it all a little boring, so much pit stopping you never knew who was actually racing who.
This might've been the fault of the TV coverage though, there were a few great moves through the field - not least Vettel showing he is a racer, too!

Late news is that the Williams garage blew up during Sir Frank's victory speech!
Fortunately no-one seriously injured, seems it was a fuel fire of sorts.
Plenty of damage and Senna's car blitzed.
 
Panther_99FS said:
Williams hasn't finished dead last in every race like Cosworth has though....
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Fresh from this week's copy of GPWEEK:
There are subtle signs that F1 engine supplier Cosworth may be about to pull the plug.
One of the big controversies surrounding the FIA’s choice of new entries for the 2010 Formula One season was based on the rumour that a key selection criterion was that incoming teams had to use a Cosworth engine.
Much was made of the celebrated engine supplier’s return to Formula One – Cosworth first became involved in F1 back in 1963, and the brand has been associated with 176 race victories.
No one expected to see a Cosworth-powered car take the chequered flag in 2010, as it takes time to build a race-winning team.
But no one expected Cosworth to disappear from the paddock with a whimper either, which is what appears to be going on at the moment.
In 2010, Cosworth had four customers in the F1 paddock: Lotus Racing (now Caterham), Virgin, HRT, and Williams. By 2011, that number was down to three, with Lotus making the switch to Renault power.
With Williams also making the move to a Renault engine for the 2012 season, Cosworth’s presence in the paddock has halved in three years, and only tail-enders Marussia and HRT now use their engines.
Speaking last year about the 2014 engine spec change, Mark Gallagher – who was still employed by Cosworth at the time – admitted that his company was worried about the incoming regulations.
“There’s a big concern on our side because the new rules have no cost restrictions applied,” Gallagher said. “So the manufacturers can spend a huge amount of money and we would have a space race around the new engine formula, which was never the idea. Everyone agreed that wasn’t the idea, but unfortunately that’s what happened. ... I think all the teams, not just our customers, don’t need to be spending more money on engine technology.”
Suspicions that Cosworth are planning to pull out of Formula One in 2014 gained added traction this weekend when GPWEEK established that the engine manufacturer no longer had a dedicated F1 PR, a highly unusual move for a supplier with an established paddock presence.
:icon_eek:
 
Panther_99FS said:
Williams hasn't finished dead last in every race like Cosworth has though....
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Yes well now you mention it...Williams' resurgence has everything to do with the fact that they dumped Cosworth for Renault!
Still, a pity if they do go; it will become a 3-engine series and I somehow still can't get my head around the "other" Ferrari-engined lot.
 
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