Turkish GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By AT&T Williams F1 Team
May 8 2011
The AT&T Williams F1 team looks back at their qualifying for the 2011 Turkish Grand Prix.
| Williams Turkish GP Qualifying Review: |
| Today’s qualifying session for the Turkish Grand Prix produced a more encouraging result for AT&T Williams as its drivers Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado recorded the 11th and 14th fastest times of the afternoon. |
Rubens Barrichello:  "After
all the work we have done this weekend at the factory and trackside, I
have to always put a great lap together in qualifying and I’m very happy
with my last lap. Unfortunately though, we just ended up outside the top
ten, which is not that penalising with the tyre situation. We also
weren’t running the new rear wing which was one of our upgrades for this
race so it was a good qualifying session for us to finish 11th despite
that."
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Pastor Maldonado:  "That’s
the happiest I’ve felt after a qualifying session this season. The new
parts the team have worked really hard to deliver to this race have
definitely improved the car. It feels quicker and easier to drive so our
efforts have paid off. Because of a problem, I haven’t run KERS all
weekend. If it was working in qualifying, we would have been three
tenths quicker. Anyway, we need to focus on tomorrow now. It will be a
difficult race and will probably be very tight, but I am confident that
we can get a good result."
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Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "We're
heading in the right direction, thanks to a lot of hard work in the
factory. Rubens starts the race in P11, and with new tyres, and Pastor
in P14. The day wasn't without issue, however, as we had to revert to
the standard rear wing on both cars after signs of aerodynamic
separation on the new version in practice. That cost us some top speed.
In addition, Pastor’s KERS wasn’t working, which lost him a couple of
places on the grid. These are not excuses but rather that with these
issues resolved, we have cause for optimism. Our target now is to get
both cars in the points."
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Istanbul Park, Turkey |
Weather: Bright but cool | ||||
|
POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
|
1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull |
1:27.039 |
1:25.610 |
1:25.049 |
|
2 |
M Webber |
Red Bull |
1:27.090 |
1:26.075 |
1:25.454 |
|
3 |
N Rosberg |
Mercedes |
1:27.514 |
1:25.801 |
1:25.574 |
| 11 |
R Barrichello |
AT&T Williams | 1:28.246 (17th) | 1:26.764 | - |
|
14 |
P Maldonado |
AT&T Williams |
1:27.396 (8th) |
1:27.236 |
- |
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Turkish GP: Williams Qualifying Review
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Date: 08/05/2011 06:11
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