Williams Spanish GP Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
May 9 2009
| Williams Spanish GP Qualifying Review: |
| In today’s qualifying session for round five of the championship, the Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona, AT&T Williams’ Kazuki Nakajima missed out on a place in Q3 by the narrowest of margins yet achieved the best qualifying result of his season so far and will line up for tomorrow’s race in P11 with the benefit of a flexible strategy. Nico Rosberg once again made it into the top ten shoot out and will start Europe’s opening round on the clean side of the grid in 9th place. |
Nico Rosberg:  "I
must say I am very pleased with today’s result because we weren’t
looking good this morning. In qualifying, we struggled to get the tyres
to work because the temperatures were only just about right. The tyres
weren’t perfect on the first lap, but then they came together on the
second. I managed to hook up a strong lap in Q2 which put me as high as
P7, but I then didn’t have any tyres left for Q3. We did the best we
could and we can be happy with the fifth row. We have a strong strategy
so we have a good chance for the race tomorrow."
|
Kazuki Nakajima:  "My
effort is a little bit disappointing. I felt comfortable throughout the
session but I then lost time towards the end of my quick lap. The car
felt really good too so I need to look over my data and see why I was
losing that time. I think we can still have a decent race; in fact, I
need to after the last few that haven’t gone well for me. Points will
definitely be a target for me tomorrow."
|
Patrick Head Director of
Engineering: "We
had a difficult morning in practice, mainly caused by traffic problems,
but we also struggled with the tyres. In qualifying, Nico secured a good
time in Q2 to enter Q3 and then take ninth. Kazuki unfortunately just
missed out on Q3 but P11 is a good position to start from. Because we’d
used all of our new tyres, we decided to take a more conservative
direction with race strategy so we won’t be threatening the front
runners in the early laps of the race."
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Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona,
Spain |
Warm and sunny | ||||
|
POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
|
1 |
J Button |
Brawn GP |
- |
- |
1:20.527 |
|
2 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull |
- |
- |
1:20.660 |
|
3 |
R Barrichello |
Brawn GP |
- |
- |
1:20.762 |
|
9 |
N Rosberg |
AT&T Williams |
1:20.745 (5th) |
1:20.256 (7th) |
1:22.558 |
|
11 |
K Nakajima |
AT&T Williams |
1:20.818 (7th) |
1:20.531 |
- |
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Williams Spanish GP Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 09/05/2009 15:15
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Re: Williams Spanish GP Qualifying Review
Posted by: _Jono_ (IP Logged)
Date: 09/05/2009 15:28
It was obvious they chose to go heavy because they used all their tyres. If you go light on worn tyres you will be nowhere, may as well tank the car up. I think some people here don't realise that Nico only scraped in on his last try (using all his tyres up) and the car isn't actually that quick. Not compared to early in the season.
Re: Williams Spanish GP Qualifying Review
Posted by: Mr. Pink (IP Logged)
Date: 09/05/2009 17:55
I think Nico did a great job by going quicker than Kubica. He will have a good race tomorrow...
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