European GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
June 24 2012
We hear from the Williams F1 team after qualifying for the 2012 European Grand Prix.
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Qualifying Notes • Pastor Maldonado will start third on the grid for tomorrow's European Grand Prix with a time of 1:38.475 around the Valencia Street Circuit. • Bruno Senna qualified 14th, just missing out on Q3 after a closely fought Q2 ended with the top ten covered by just 0.214 seconds. • After showing the competitiveness of the FW34 in qualifying, the team are looking for another strong points finish for both cars in tomorrow’s race. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "We've
been working so hard to understand the car but there is still more
performance to find on the soft tyre. The team did a great job today
though and Williams is getting stronger and stronger. It’s not only a
good result for the team, but also for my country and there are so many
Venezuelan fans here supporting me which is great to see. Strategy will
be important tomorrow as it’s very hot, but it will make it difficult
for everyone. I'm looking forward to pushing for a podium finish
tomorrow."
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Bruno Senna "I’m
not too happy with our qualifying result today as I wasn’t able to put
all my best sectors together which cost me a lot of positions. However,
the car feels good for tomorrow so hopefully we can have a stronger
race. It’s going to be very tough with the high temperatures but we will
be pushing hard to come away with some points."
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Mark Gillan Chief Operations
Engineer: "As
we have seen over the whole season, tyre management is paramount to
performing well in both qualifying and the race. This has been clearly
evident today with a mixed morning and qualifying session. Pastor did an
excellent job with a very strong performance on the soft tyres to finish
in third. Bruno was less happy with his tyre balance and finished 14th.
Based on our longer runs on Friday we look forward to pushing for a good
race result."
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Valencia Street Circuit, Spain |
Hot & Dry | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull | 1:39.626 | 1:38.530 | 1:38.086 |
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2 |
L Hamilton |
McLaren |
1:39.169 |
1:38.616 | 1:38.410 |
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3 |
P Maldonado |
Williams |
1:38.825 |
1:38.570 | 1:38.475 |
| 3 |
P Maldonado FW34 02 RS27-5360/2 |
Williams F1 Team | 1:38.825 (1st) | 1:38.570 (7th) | 1:38.475 |
| 14 |
B Senna |
Williams F1 Team | 1:39.449 (10th) | 1:39.207 | - |
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European GP: Williams Qualifying Review
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Date: 24/06/2012 04:57
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