Chinese GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
April 14 2012
The Williams F1 team looks back at their qualifying for the 2012 Chinese Grand Prix.
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Qualifying Notes •• Pastor will start 13th and Bruno 14th for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix. • Bruno’s final Q2 time was just 0.006s adrift of Pastor’s quickest. • Both drivers set their quickest times in Q2 on new sets of soft tyres. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "We
knew it would be difficult to get into the top 10 today but we were very
close. I feel that our car will be stronger in the race so I’m looking
forward to tomorrow. We are in a good position to fight for points so it
will be important to get a clean start and to have a good pace
throughout the race."
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Bruno Senna "It
was the best qualifying session of the year so far for me. The grid is
so tight that the smallest difference in time can make a big difference
in position, so it was tough. Our race simulation yesterday was good so
I feel we are looking stronger for tomorrow. Of course I would like to
be further up the grid, but I couldn’t be closer to Pastor so it was a
good team effort."
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Mark Gillan Chief Operations
Engineer: "Track
conditions were good this morning and the car balance was better, with
both drivers feeling their cars much improved from Friday's running. We
went through the first session of qualifying without too much difficulty
but unfortunately both cars didn't manage to get into the final session,
with Pastor and Bruno finishing 13th and 14th respectively. Despite the
disappointment of not getting the cars in the top 10, we are looking
forward to tomorrow's race as we believe that our race pace will be
strong."
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Shanghai International Circuit,
China |
Warm & Dry | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
N Rosberg |
Mercedes |
1:36.875 |
1:35.725 |
1:35.121 |
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2 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren |
1:36.763 |
1:35.902 |
1:35.626 |
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3 |
M Schumacher |
Mercedes |
1:36.797 |
1:35.794 |
1:35.691 |
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13 |
P Maldonado |
Williams F1 Team |
1:36.528 (4th) |
1:36.283 |
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14 |
B Senna |
Williams F1 Team |
1:36.674 (7th) |
1:36.289 |
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Chinese GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 14/04/2012 14:35
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