German GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By AT&T Williams F1 Team
July 30 2011
The AT&T Williams F1 team looks back at qualifying for the 2011 Hungarain Grand Prix.
| Williams Hungarian GP Qualifying Review: |
| Rubens Barrichello led the team in qualifying at the Hungaroring this afternoon, setting a time of 1:22.684 to put him 15th on the grid for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Whilst Rubens set his quickest time on Pirelli’s prime tyre in Q2, Pastor Maldonado opted not to run in the second session. After making it through Q1 on the prime tyre, Pastor remained in the garage and so will start 17th on the grid with an extra set of super softs for tomorrow’s race. |
Rubens Barrichello:  "Everything
was running so well and we had a promising strategy in place, but I
couldn't engage KERS in sector one of my last lap, and that compromised
my time. I still had a pretty good lap, but I'm disappointed because we
had a competitive run earlier on with the primes and so were thinking
that 11th or 12th was possible on the option. Still, we've saved enough
tyres and with a solid strategy we can have a better race tomorrow."
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Pastor Maldonado:  "We
decided not to run in Q2 to save a set of options. It is essential we
get the best result we can from the race and so for our strategy it was
important to save some tyres today. I think there will be a big fight
tomorrow with the cars starting around us, but we have one more set of
super softs. I am looking forward to seeing what we can do now."
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Sam Michael
Technical Director WilliamsF1 "Our
plan today was to look at conserving tyres for the race so we only used
the prime throughout Q1 on both cars. Rubens looked quite strong in the
opening session so we actually ran one set of options on his car in Q2.
Unfortunately a problem with KERS at the start of his quick lap
compromised that decision and cost him some time so we really didn't get
the most out of using the new option, as can be seen from the small,
four tenths difference between his prime and option time. In Pastor's
case, he chose not to run in Q2 to save the option tyre for tomorrow,
which was the team's plan."
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Hungaroring, Hungary |
Weather: Cloudy with some
sunshine | ||||
|
POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
|
1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull |
1:21.740 |
1:21.095 |
1:19.815 |
|
2 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren |
1:21.636 |
1:21.105 |
1:19.978 |
|
3 |
J Button |
McLaren |
1:22.038 |
1:20.578 |
1:20.024 |
| 15 |
R Barrichello |
AT&T Williams | 1:23.075 (14th) | 1:22.684 | - |
| 17 |
P Maldonado FW33-02 CA324 |
AT&T Williams | 1:23.847 (17th) | No time | - |
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German GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 30/07/2011 15:19
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