Australian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Valtteri Bottas
By Williams F1 Team
March 17 2013
After a postponed qualifying session for the 2013 Australian GP the Williams F1 team would see their drivers finish in 16th and 17th with Valtteri Bottas leading team-mate Pastor Maldonado. The team is now aiming to fight hard to bring home some points.
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Qualifying Notes • Valtteri Bottas will start 16th with Pastor Maldonado 17th for the Australian GP later today. • Heavy rain hampered yesterday's qualifying session, meaning that Q2 and Q3 resumed on race day. • Both drivers found it difficult to get the performance out of the FW35 during Q1 with Pastor unable to progress into Q2. • When Q2 resumed on Sunday, Valtteri pushed hard on the intermediates, but the team’s gamble to switch to the supersoft tyres didn’t pay off and he was unable to improve on his lap time. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "It
was a difficult qualifying session for us yesterday as the car had very
little grip and the conditions were not favourable. We have been working
hard to prepare the car for the race and there is still more work to do
this season. Our long run pace should mean that we can make up some
places from our grid position though so this is now our focus."
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Valtteri Bottas: "It
wasn’t the easiest qualifying session to start my Formula One career. It
was good to get through Q1 yesterday but the conditions were tricky
again today as it was getting drier all the time. We tried the supersoft
tyre, but unfortunately it didn’t allow us to improve our lap time. We
will now focus on getting ready for the race later and will aim to do
our best to get into a points-scoring position."
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Mike Coughlan, Technical
Director: "It
was a difficult qualifying to start the season for us and we are not
where we want to be. Yesterday we struggled in the rain with Pastor
qualifying 17th but we are working hard to figure out where our problems
are. When the session resumed with Valtteri today, we gambled on a move
to the supersoft tyres for his final run in Q2, but the track just
didn’t dry fast enough for us. We have good race pace though so we are
now focusing on that and we’ll be fighting hard to deliver some points."
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Albert Park, Melbourne, Australia
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Weather: Cool and wet / damp | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull | 1:44.657 | 1:36.745 | 1:27.407 |
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2 |
M Webber |
Red Bull | 1:44.472 | 1:36.524 | 1:27.827 |
| 3 | L Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:45.456 | 1:36.625 | 1:28.087 |
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V Bottas |
Williams F1 Team | 1:47.328 (15th) | 1:40.290 | - |
| 17 |
P Maldonado FW35 02 RS27-5322/2 |
Williams F1 Team | 1:47.614 | - | - |
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Australian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 17/03/2013 02:24
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Re: Australian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Anderis (IP Logged)
Date: 17/03/2013 08:40
"We have good race pace"- Good joke Mike Coughlan, good joke!
Re: Australian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: azouris (IP Logged)
Date: 17/03/2013 08:49
"but we are working hard to figure out where our problems are."
So we dont know what our problems are,its getting better and better.
So we dont know what our problems are,its getting better and better.
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