Spanish GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
May 12 2012
We hear from the Williams F1 team after qualifying for the 2012 Spanish Grand Prix, in which team driver Pastor Maldonado finished second.
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Qualifying Notes • Pastor Maldonado claimed his first front row grid position today in qualifying for tomorrow's Spanish GP. • After topping the times in Q2, Pastor drove a great lap on soft tyres to post a time of 1:22.285 putting him second overall behind Hamilton's McLaren. • After being hampered by traffic on earlier runs a frustrated Bruno Senna ended Q1 in the gravel and will therefore start 18th in tomorrow's race but with extra sets of tyres available. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "We
have been working so hard all year to understand these tyres and with
the updates we have brought to this race we have made a very good step
forward. The car is very consistent and its race pace is good so I am
really looking forward to the race tomorrow. There has been a really
positive atmosphere in the team all season and this is a great result
for them and Venezuela."
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Bruno Senna "It
was a disappointing qualifying for me and I had back luck with traffic
when on the soft tyre. I have a lot of work to do tomorrow if I want to
score any points but I have had good races from the back before and our
car is looking competitive this weekend."
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Mark Gillan Chief Operations
Engineer: "Pastor's
qualifying performance was stunning today with a collection of very
strong laps throughout the session which allowed us to save a set of
soft tyres to fight for a decent qualifying position in Q3. To finish P2
is a great boost for the whole team and gives us a very good position
from which to push hard in the race for decent points and hopefully a
further belated 70th birthday present for Frank. It is obviously
disappointing for Bruno to have crashed out of Q1 but we expect the race
pace to be strong so points are still possible from P18."
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Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona. |
Hot & Dry | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren | 1:22.583 | 1:22.465 | 1:21.707 |
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2 |
P Maldonado |
Williams |
1:23.380 |
1:22.105 | 1:22.285 |
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3 |
F Alonso |
Ferrari |
1:23.276 |
1:22.862 | 1:22.302 |
| 2 |
P Maldonado FW34 02 RS27-5344/2 |
Williams F1 Team | 1:23.380 | 1:22.105 | 1:22.285 |
| 18 |
B Senna |
Williams F1 Team | 1:24.981 (18th) | No time | - |
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Spanish GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 12/05/2012 16:28
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