Belgian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
September 2 2012
The Williams F1 team looks back at their qualifying for the 2012 Belgian Grand Prix.
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Qualifying Notes • Pastor Maldonado qualified third for tomorrow’s Belgian GP after putting together a great lap of 1:47.893. • Pastor will start sixth on the grid due to a three-place grid penalty incurred for impeding Hulkenberg in Q1. • Bruno Senna was hampered by a spin in Q2 and subsequent damage to his front wing therefore qualifying in 17th. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "This
morning didn’t go as well for us as we had hoped, but during qualifying
I adapted myself to the car and the changing track conditions which were
improving all the time. After Q1, I saw the potential so we just had to
put it together for the rest of qualifying. Obviously, I am disappointed
to be sixth following the penalty, but it’s still a good result so I’m
happy for the team. We will now prepare for the race and I am very much
looking forward to pushing for a good result tomorrow."
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Bruno Senna "I’m
slightly frustrated with qualifying as things just didn’t seem to come
together today. The spin was unfortunate and there seemed to be a bit of
damage on the car from that. It’s frustrating to be further back than we
should be but we’ve scored points from those positions before, so we
need to keep our heads up and make sure we do it again."
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Mark Gillan Chief Operations
Engineer: "After
full wet conditions yesterday it was good to get a complete day of
running in the dry. FP3 was extremely busy trying to compact three test
sessions into one. We went into qualifying hopeful of a good result and
Pastor drove brilliantly with an exceptional lap in Q3 to claim 3rd.
Unfortunately Pastor was subsequently dropped three places after the
stewards judged that he had impeded Hulkenberg, but from sixth place
tomorrow we look forward to a good race. Bruno unfortunately finished
qualifying in 17th being significantly hampered by a damaged front
wing."
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Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium. |
Weather: Dry, sunny and mild | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
J Button |
McLaren | 1:49.250 | 1:47.654 | 1:47.573 |
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2 |
K Kobayashi |
Sauber | 1:49.686 | 1:48.569 | 1:47.871 |
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P Maldonado FW34 02 RS27-5373/2 |
Williams F1 Team | 1:48.993 (1st) | 1:48.780 (10th) | 1:47.893 |
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B Senna |
Williams F1 Team | 1:49.958 (15th) | 1:50.088 | - |
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Belgian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 02/09/2012 07:46
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