Williams Belgian Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
August 29 2009
| Williams Belgian GP Qualifying Review: |
| Today’s qualifying session at the Spa circuit ahead of tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix threw up an uncharacteristic front row, and, by extension, saw a number of favoured drivers knocked out in the earlier stages of the sessions. After an uncompetitive start to the weekend with the AT&T Williams team struggling to find pace, late overnight changes and a commanding session-best sector two in Q2 enabled Nico Rosberg to maintain a near-perfect top 10 qualifying record this season. In the fluctuating form up and down the field, Kazuki Nakajima was unable to repeat the performance of his team-mate and starts tomorrow’s race on the ninth row of the grid. |
Nico Rosberg:  "We
have really struggled all weekend but we managed to get the best out of
Q2 and finishing 10th was possibly the best we could achieve carrying
quite a lot of fuel. We have a good strategy and therefore I think we
can fight for some points tomorrow. It was a very strange qualifying
session here today, I think maybe the way the teams are using their
tyres is making quite a difference."
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Kazuki Nakajima:  "We
struggled here yesterday in practice, but Nico managed to either drive
very well or find a set-up direction that I didn’t. I hope I can learn
something from the progress he made today and have a better time
tomorrow in the race to make up for today’s disappointment."
|
Sam Michael Technical Director
WilliamsF1: "We
had a difficult day yesterday and we changed a lot of things overnight
which definitely made the car better. It was an unbelievably tight
qualifying session considering how long the lap is, which goes to show
how much of a difference the rules have made. Nico did a fantastic job
to get the car through to Q3 and from that point we adjusted our
strategy to concentrate on Sunday. Congratulations to Force India for
their first pole."
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Spa Francorchamps, Belgium |
Broken cloud | ||||
|
POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
|
1 |
G Fisichella |
Force India |
- |
- |
1:46.308 |
|
2 |
J Trulli |
Toyota |
- |
- |
1:46.395 |
|
3 |
N Heidfeld |
BMW Sauber |
- |
- |
1:46.500 |
| 5 |
N Rosberg FW31-03 H474 |
AT&T Williams | 1:45.486 (8th) | 1:45.047 (10th) | 1:47.362 |
| 9 |
K Nakajima |
AT&T Williams | 1:46.037 | - | - |
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Williams Belgian Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 29/08/2009 15:59
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