Japanese GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By AT&T Williams F1 Team
October 11 2011
We hear from AT&T Williams F1 team members after qualifying from the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix.
| Williams Japanese GP Qualifying Review: |
| Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado again claimed places just outside the top ten in today’s qualifying shoot out for the Japanese Grand Prix. Rubens’ time of 1:33.079 and Pastor’s 1:33.224 will see them line up alongside each other on Sunday’s grid, in P13 and P14. Both drivers recorded their fastest time on Pirelli’s soft Option tyre. |
Rubens Barrichello:  "First
of all I want to thank the team for working so hard on making the
changes I wanted. The car wasn’t behaving well in practice this morning
so we changed almost everything on it before qualifying. Everyone did a
great job turning it around in time. The changes really transformed the
car and we pulled off a strong lap this afternoon."
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Pastor Maldonado:  "Quite
a difficult qualifying for me, primarily because we lost a lot of track
time during yesterday’s practice. We made a few changes after this
morning’s session and we managed to get a good lap out of the car in
qualifying. I don’t have the balance I’d like, but we have time go
through everything and do some more work ahead of the race."
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Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "It
was good to get through the entire run plan in P3 after a difficult day
yesterday. Rubens was initially unhappy with the balance on his car
after it had to be almost completely rebuilt after his crash in P2. The
crew did an excellent job to make a number of changes between P3 and
qualifying and Rubens had a very good lap this afternoon which placed
him in 13th. With limited running in practice, Pastor also did really
well to learn the circuit as quickly as he did and pushed hard to get
14th."
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Suzuka Circuit, Japan |
Weather: Clear & Sunny | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull |
1:33.051 |
1:31.424 |
1:30.466 |
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2 |
J Button |
McLaren |
1:32.947 |
1:31.434 |
1:30.475 |
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3 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren |
1:32.843 |
1:31.139 |
1:30.617 |
| 13 |
R Barrichello |
AT&T Williams | 1:33.921 (15th) | 1:33.079 | - |
| 14 |
P Maldonado FW33-02 CA443 |
AT&T Williams | 1:33.781 (14th) | 1:33.224 | - |
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