Chinese GP: Williams F1 Qualifying Review
Pastor Maldonado
By Williams F1 Team
April 14 2013
Qualifying for the 2013 Chinese Grand Prix would see Williams F1 drivers Pastor Maldonado and Valtteri Bottas finish in a disappoinign15th and 17th. Valtteri would admit that he did not make the most of qualifying.
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Qualifying Notes • Pastor Maldonado qualified 15th with Valtteri Bottas 17th for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix. • Pastor progressed into Q2, pushing to get the maximum he could out of the FW35 today, but after crossing the line in tenth, his time of 1:37.139 left him in 15th as those around him improved. • Valtteri didn’t get a perfect lap in Q1 meaning a late run from Ricciardo was enough to knock him out of qualifying in the final stages. |
Pastor Maldonado:  "I
got everything I could out of the car today. I was hoping for a better
result but we couldn’t quite put it all together in Q2. It’s not where
we want to be so we need to work very hard. We’ve been working hard
already but we need time to turn things around. We have a good amount of
new tyres for tomorrow and the tyres are very sensitive here, so that
could make the race very interesting. Anything can happen tomorrow and we will do our very best." |
Valtteri Bottas: "We
left the run quite late in Q1 as everyone else also left it late before
heading back out and we were waiting for the track conditions to
improve. However, with only one lap to get everything right it was quite
a difficult situation. The wind conditions made it tricky to get the
perfect lap as I was trying to push hard and it’s a new experience for
me to have to put everything together in just one lap. The conditions
were different to FP3 and I didn’t make the most of qualifying. Now we
are focused on getting the strategy right for the race to make the most
of the new tyres we have."
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Mike Coughlan, Technical
Director: "In
a close grid where you only get a single lap in qualifying, any small
mistakes are punished. We feel we have a much better set-up for the race
on the hard tyre rather than on the soft tyre. We are aiming to deliver
a better performance tomorrow. We know we still have more lap time to
find but we are working hard at it."
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Shanghai International Circuit,
China |
Weather: Warm and dry | ||||
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POS |
DRIVER |
TEAM |
Q1 |
Q2 |
Q3 |
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1 |
L Hamilton |
Mercedes | 1:35.793 | 1:35.078 | 1:34.484 |
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2 |
K Raikkonen |
Lotus | 1:37.046 | 1:35.659 | 1:34.761 |
| 3 | F Alonso | Ferrari | 1:36.253 | 1:35.148 | 1:34.788 |
| 15 |
P Maldonado FW35 02 RS27-5436/2 |
Williams F1 Team | 1:37.281 (13th) | 1:37.139 | - |
| 17 |
V Bottas |
Williams F1 Team | 1:37.769 | - | - |
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Chinese GP: Williams F1 Qualifying Review
Posted by: Williams F1 (IP Logged)
Date: 14/04/2013 07:09
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