European GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
June 26 2010
Following a succession of recent development upgrades, the team enjoyed some tangible progress at Valencia today as both AT&T Williams drivers secured top ten grid slots for tomorrow’s European Grand Prix.
| Williams European GP Qualifying Review: |
| Following a succession of recent development upgrades, the team enjoyed some tangible progress at Valencia today as both AT&T Williams drivers secured top ten grid slots for tomorrow’s European Grand Prix. Nico Hulkenberg and Rubens Barrichello set competitive times throughout this afternoon’s three qualifying rounds, with Nico just edging into P8 ahead of Rubens’ P9 at the end of Q3.. |
Rubens Barrichello:  "It
was a good qualifying session for the team. Ninth is a strong position
to be starting from, but I could have done better than that if it
weren’t for a problem with brake warm up in Q3. I’m looking forward to
tomorrow and certainly feel we can achieve a top sixth finish as the car
is looking competitive. We are quite happy with the improvements we’ve
brought here this weekend. We still need to keep pushing, but this
demonstrates that we can be fast."
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Nico Hulkenberg:  "A
positive Saturday; that wasn’t a bad qualifying! No one expected me to
be ahead of Rubens today because he’s been quicker than me all weekend.
Somehow I pulled out a good lap in Q3 and beat him by a fraction. We’re
obviously happy that we have both cars in the top ten, which was the
aim. Hopefully we’ll have a good race and get some points tomorrow."
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Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "To
get both cars into Q3 is good progress with the whole car package.
Rubens had an issue with glazed brakes, which was a shame as that pushed
him down the order. Nico did a good job in qualifying today. We do still
have to improve across all areas of the car, and if we do that quickly
we'll feature in the top ten more regularly. Rubens will be racing the
blown rear wing tomorrow while Nico will run a standard version."
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Valencia Street Circuit, Spain |
Weather: Warm | ||||
|
POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
|
1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull |
- |
- |
1:37.587 |
|
2 |
M Webber | Red Bull |
- |
- |
1:37.662 |
|
3 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren |
- |
- |
1:37.969 |
| 8 |
N Hulkenberg FW32-03 CA143 |
AT&T Williams | 1:38.843 (10th | 1:38.523 (9th) | 1:38.428 |
| 9 |
R Barrichello |
AT&T Williams | 1:38.449 (4th) | 1:38.326 (7th) | 1:38.428 |
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European GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 26/06/2010 17:11
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