Malaysian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
By Williams F1 Team
March 23 2013
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Qualifying Notes • Pastor Maldonado qualified 16th with Valtteri Bottas 18th for tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix. • The team has been pushing hard to improve the performance of the FW35 around the Sepang International Circuit and made some steps forward n FP3. • In the fast-changing weather conditions, Pastor was unable to complete his run on dry tyres before the rain arrived during Q2. • Valtteri missed out on Q2 by just 0.3 seconds as he was unable to improve his lap time after switching onto the medium compound tyre during Q1. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "We
were unlucky with the timing of the rain in Q2 which meant we were
forced to abort the lap. The car felt better on track and there was a
chance we could have been fighting to get into Q3. We still have work to
do to improve the car and close the gap, but we will work hard now to
prepare for the race tomorrow."
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Valtteri Bottas: "It
was disappointing not to get through into Q2 today, especially after we
felt the car had improved since last week. The prime tyre run felt good
with the car responding well. We expected a much bigger gain from the
medium compound but we didn’t get any extra grip. The lap times were
tight at the end so we just missed out on Q2, but our long-run pace will
mean we will be aiming to gain some places from our grid position
tomorrow."
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Mike Coughlan, Technical
Director: "We
feel we’ve made some small steps forward which we were able to show in
FP3 this morning. However, we were unable to capitalise on this during
qualifying with Valtteri narrowly missing out on a place in Q2 and
finishing in 18th. Pastor made it through, but we were then caught out
by the rain which came earlier than predicted and so he was unable to
set a time."
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Sepang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Weather: Hot and dry with late
rain shower | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
S Vettel |
Red Bull | 1:37.899 | 1:37.245 | 1:49.674 |
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2 |
F Massa |
Ferrari | 1:37.712 | 1:36.874 | 1:50.587 |
| 3 | F Alonso | Ferrari | 1:37.314 | 1:36.877 | 1:50.727 |
| 16 |
P Maldonado FW35 02 RS27-5444/2 |
Williams F1 Team | 1:37.867 (14th) | No time set | - |
| 18 |
V Bottas |
Williams F1 Team | 1:38.207 | - | - |
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Malaysian GP: Williams Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 23/03/2013 11:25
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