Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
March 28 2009
| Australian GP Qualifying Review: |
| The first indications of the 2009 form guide emerged today after the first competitive session of the new season at Albert Park in Melbourne. The two Brawn GP cars locked out the front row and Nico Rosberg kept the AT&T Williams team firmly in the picture securing the fifth slot on the grid for tomorrow’s race. Having shown positive form through the three practice sessions and into qualifying, an error on his final flying lap in Q2 meant that Kazuki Nakajima was unable to join Nico in the pole position shoot-out and he will line up in 13th place for tomorrow’s evening start. |
Nico Rosberg:  "I
think it is a good thing to be a bit disappointed with fifth place! Our
qualifying session itself was consistent with everything else I have
experienced so far and the car has been nice to drive all weekend. From
the work we have done today, we are in a good position to start the
race, perhaps better than we would have imagined when we arrived here.
We are among the fastest cars but it will be interesting to see what
fuel load everybody is running.The start tomorrow of course will be important, but thankfully we will don’t have too many cars running KERS close by us and possibly challenging us off the line. The big factor tomorrow will be tyres, but I think we have a good strategy and positive reliability, so we have all the tools to do a good job in the race." |
Kazuki Nakajima:  "The
car was good enough to make it into Q3 today, but I made a small mistake
and it cost me quite a few places. There is however plenty to consider
tomorrow and I think I still have a good opportunity, so it will be
important to concentrate and get absolutely everything right. As it the
first race I think there will be plenty going on, which will make it
exciting, but challenging."
|
Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "We
have had a solid start to our preparations for tomorrow’s race. Both
cars have performed reliably and we have managed to find a reasonable
pace. Nico used this to best advantage today, but an error in Q2 meant
that Kazuki was not able to progress into the top ten."
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA |
Clear & Sunny | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
|
1 |
J Button |
Brawn GP |
- |
- |
1:26.202 |
|
2 |
R Barrichello |
Brawn GP |
- |
- |
1:26.505 |
|
3 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull |
- |
- |
1:26.803 |
|
5 |
N Rosberg |
AT&T Williams |
1:25.846 (7th) |
1:25.121 (4th) |
1:26.973 |
|
14 |
K Nakajima |
AT&T Williams |
1:26.074 (12th) |
1:25.607 |
- |
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Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 28/03/2009 09:19
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