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Malaysian GP 2010: Qualifying; Webber pole position, Seb 3rd
Kiša je začinila kvalifikacije na Sepangu i imamo jedan dosta zanimljiv startni poredak...
Malo prije starta kvalifikacja je počela padati kiša i tada je počela kocka. Neki timovi su imali informaciju da je to najjača kiša da više neće padati, te su čekali u boks zadnje minute dok ne dođe "bolje" vrijeme. No to je bilo potpuno krivo, kiša se samo pogoršala te su Ferrari, McLaren i Red Bull Marka Webbera koji su čekali u boks u zadnjm minuta po velikoj kiši morali hvatati vremena. Svjetski prvak Jason Button je bio prva žrtva, izvrtio se u 6. zavoju i zapeo u šljunčanoj klopci ali je ipak prošao u Q2 iako više nije imao pravo izlaziti na stazu, startati će s 17. pozicije. Na posljednjem zavoju svog prvog letećeg kruga se izvrtio i Lewis Hamilton, dok su leteći krugovi Ferrarijevih vozača bili prespori za prolazak u drugi kvalifikacijski segment. Fernando Alonso je na 8. zavoju imao trostruko okretanje (baš mi je on neki stručnjak za kišu), dok je Massa na istom mjestu izletio sa staze (ništa novo). Njih dvojica su za 16. vremenom kasnila od dvije do četiri desetinke, što znači da će sutrašnju utrku startati s 19. i 21. mjesta.
Za razliku od Q2 koji nije bio pretjerano uzbudljiv, Q3 je imao dramatičniji tijek te je nekoliko minuta nakon početka prekinut zbog jake kiše. Sesija je nastavljena nakon 15 minuta i prolaska oluje, a vozači su se za najbolje pozicije borili kroz posljednjih 7 minuta.
Provizorni pole position je najprije držao Force Indijin vozač Adrian Sutil, no uvjeti na stazi su nakon toga počeli ići na ruku Marku Webberu, jedinom vozaču na intermedijima. Australac je uskoro skočio na prvo mjesto, kojeg je posljednjim letećim krugom i potvrdio - bio je 1.3 sekunde brži od Nice Rosberga. Iza Rosberga slijedi Sebastian Vettel koji nažalost nije uspio složiti pošten krug i nije koristio intermedije, ali ima dobru poziciju i sutra stvarno mnogo očekujem jer svi znamo koliko je Seb dobar na kiši.
Zapažen nastup je imao i Williamsov vozač Nico Hulkenberg koji je tijekom čitavih kvalifikacija bio jedan od najbržih vozača, da bi na kraju uzeo peto startno mjesto, ispred Roberta Kubice u Renaultu.
Rubens Barrichello i Michael Schumacher su izborili četvrti startni red, a slijede ih Kamui Kobyashi i Vitantonio Liuzzi, koji je uz Sutila potvrdio imrpesivnu formu Force Indije.
Kako su velika imena otpala, Heikki Kovalainen i Timo Glock su prvi put ušli u drugi kvalifikacijski segment, a na startu sutrašnje utrke će dijeliti osmi startni red.
Među junacima kišnog Sepanga su bili i Toro Rossovi vozači, Sebastien Buemi i Jaime Alguersuari koji će u utrku krenuti iz sedmog startnog reda. Renaultov vozač Vitalij Petrov se na kraju morao zadovoljiti 11. mjestom, a u utrku će krenuti ispred drugog Sauberovog vozača Pedra de la Rose.
Spomenimo i da je Karun Chakdhok danas bio brži od svog momčadskog kolege Bruna Senne, a obojica su pobijedila Virginovog vozača Lucasa di Grassija, koji se prvom kvalifikacijskom segmentu pridružio tek u završnim minutama.
Rezultati kvalifikacija:
01. M. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:51.886 1:48.210 1:49.327
02. N. Rosberg Mercedes 1:52.560 1:47.417 1:50.673
03. S. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:47.632 1:46.828 1:50.789
04. A. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:49.479 1:47.085 1:50.914
05. N. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:49.664 1:47.346 1:51.001
06. R. Kubica Renault 1:46.283 1:46.951 1:51.051
07. R. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:50.301 1:48.371 1:51.511
08. M. Schumacher Mercedes 1:52.239 1:48.400 1:51.717
09. K. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:48.467 1:47.792 1:51.767
10. V. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:49.922 1:48.238 1:52.254
11. V. Petrov Renault 1:47.952 1:48.760
12. P. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:47.153 1:48.771
13. S. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:48.945 1:49.207
14. J. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:48.655 1:49.464
15. H. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:52.875 1:52.270
16. T. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:52.398 1:52.520
17. J. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:52.211
18. J. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:52.884
19. F. Alonso Ferrari 1:53.044
20. L. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:53.050
21. F. Massa Ferrari 1:53.283
22. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:56.299
23. B. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:57.269
24. L. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:59.977
SV: “Good job to Mark today. It was very tricky at the start of Q3, there was a lot of water and it was the right thing to call the red flag - it was just impossible. I think there was too much water - the cars are quite low, so you end up swimming more than driving. In Q3 I think we did the right thing putting on extremes. The water disappeared quicker than the majority of people thought and Mark was on the better tyre in the end, but I think third is a good result for the team. It was a tricky session – it was important to get into the next round and then qualify as high up as we could, which we did. It’s a shame as I had some moments on my fastest lap - I was close to Nico (Rosberg), only about one tenth off I think, but if you look back there wasn’t that much margin. I think we can be very pleased with third today and everything is possible tomorrow.”
Press Conference:
Pres konferencija triju najbržih vozača (gdje se Seb redovito pojavljuje) sa kvalifikacija VN Malezije: Mark Webber (Red Bull), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) i Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull). Ovdje su kao uvijek samo Vettelovi odgovori, ali ako želite pročitati cijelu možete OVDJE.
Q: Sebastian, take us through Q3 from your perspective. Mark, for once, had the better of you.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, I said straight after the qualifying ‘good job, poker face.’ I think in the end we made the right call. It was very tricky at the start of Q3. There was a lot of water and it was the right thing to get the red flag out as it was just impossible for all of us. There was just too much water. The cars are quite low, so you end up swimming more than driving. But then I think in Q3 we did the right thing. It turned out that the water disappeared quicker than the majority of people thought and Mark was on the better tyre at the end. But, nevertheless, third is a very good position and result for us and the team and everything is possible tomorrow, so as they said already it was a very tricky session and I think it was much more important to get into the next round and qualify as high up as we can, which we did. Shame I had some moment in the fastest lap. I was very close to Nico. I think only about one-tenth, but if you look back there wasn’t that much margin either, so we can be very pleased with third today.
Q: Sebastian, happy to be third on the grid?
SV: I’m happy.
Q: Two poles so far, happier with the car this morning?
SV: Yeah, I think we did a step forward overnight and looking… they’ve said it all, really. It was a pretty chaotic qualifying today, up and down. As we saw in Q1 some of the favourites got thrown out going into qualifying. In the end, I think the most important thing was to get into the next round safely which I think we did. Overall, I think we were very consistent. The pace was there. In the end, I think third is a very good result, so I’m happy. There was not much gap missing to the next best car on wets, to Nico, I think about a tenth but also if you look back I think there was plenty of margin, so overall a good day I think. Obviously Mark was the poker face today and made the right decision at the right time. I honestly thought that going into Q3 that that’s (intermediates) a little bit too risky and as we have seen, the majority of people went out on wets. I think that looking back, we did the right thing.
Q: (Mike Doodson) Sebastian, there have been a number of explanations for the problem you had in Melbourne, even to the extent of one of your suppliers issuing a statement to say it wasn’t responsible. Can you tell us what did go wrong and are there any new and/or different parts on your car as a result?
SV: It’s a difficult one to explain. Initially it felt like a braking failure, so that’s what we said straight after the race but it turned out not to be anywhere linked to the brakes, so the brakes were working fine, so Brembo did a good job. Sorry for the call on Sunday afternoon last week. But it turned out to be a problem with the… basically we lost the ability to transmit power or torque to the wheel. Accelerating is not a big issue because the wheels just get quicker, but as you know, we have brakes everywhere, on every single wheel on the car and to stop the car, you rely on every single brake you have, so on all four wheels, to work and on the left front, as I said, we lost the ability to transmit torque. When I was hitting the brakes, down to turn 13, all the brakes worked but the left front wheel kept on running, so that in the end I was kind of braking on three wheels, which, when you set your reference point, doesn’t really work, so that was the failure. As a consequence, we obviously had to understand why this happened, and I think we did, so we’re confident that we haven’t got any problems with that any more. I think we tidied things up a bit, so I think we know why it happened and we understood the problem, so it shouldn’t happen again, as I said. We haven’t really got new parts but trimmed a bit.
Q: (Michael Schmidt - Auto, Motor und Sport) Sebastian, you were the only one of the top teams who went out immediately in Q1 and Nico waited quite a long time, like many others, which almost caught you out like the Ferraris and Hamilton. First of all, why did you go out early, and for Nico, were you getting nervous in the garage when you saw the others driving and you were being held back by the team?
NR: I wasn’t getting nervous because there was no more rain for the rest of Q1 according to the forecast. That nearly caught us out, we were lucky to get through.
SV: In the end, you decide as a team. Obviously, looking back it was definitely the right choice. We wanted to wait for longer but then obviously it makes sense to go out and set a lap, no matter what, because you don’t know what to expect. You don’t know which tyre is going to work in which conditions. We had zero experience in free practice, so that for Mark and for myself it was the same call. Obviously we wanted to go out and have a look and that turned out to be the right thing.
NR: I think also the main problem was with that forecast, that with these specific types of clouds it’s very difficult to see them coming sometimes and they just pop out, so that’s one of the difficulties I guess.
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Post je objavljen 03.04.2010. u 12:33 sati.