Tense tomorrow for many teams, especially in Renault with the fire of the car of Heidfeld, and Ferrari with the obvious lack of stability and performance at the 3rd meeting of free. With the RedBull in another Galaxy, the classification of the Grand Prize of Spain seems that it would give us little comment to make.
However, between the Q1, with strange movements where we have seen pilots more above what is usual, and the Q2 where at first didn't anyone until after a few minutes, we had good ration of interesting things. More and more we see how the classification sessions concentrated action in the last few minutes, something quite painful.
In Q1, the choice between soft and hard tyres with the time difference that exist in this Grand Prix has forced many teams to opt for the softer tyre fairly soon. It gave the sense of that in the Q3 would have to think about preserving a set of tyres or give everything. Who had it worse is Nick Heidfeld, who seemed that he would leave at the last moment with a single shot to try to get some time, but has finally been put in the box. One less.
That Yes, Renault was going very well, very strong as we saw with Petrov when he activated the DRS before finishing the last curve of the circuit. Spectacular the stability of the Renault at these speeds and with the need for support of that curve.
Which have mounted soft tyres have been able to get into the fight, although it is true that we have not seen force anyone (the Ferrari for example), or the thing badly painted for the Scuderia. For me it was nothing more than the confirmation that all except RedBull and McLaren, were quite nervous. We turn to the Q2 with Trulli, Barrichello, Glock, Liuzzi, Kharthikeyan, D'Ambrosio & deleted. Both HRT within 107%.
Both RedBull, first Vettel and Webber then have come alone to the track after a short break. Alguersuari continued them to lag behind, and everything to mark a time and see what would happen later. Superiority by one side, and a desire to pass without finding traffic on the other hand. Four minutes and then they have started dating each other. Vettel is higher, even the DRS it has been activated at the beginning of the last curve. Brutal.
I leave here the Chronicle of the Q2, but must devote some space to the other participants. All the pilots that 6 minutes away from the term were eliminated had not left: two Mercedes GP, the two Force India, a Williams and a Lotus. Finally, in a latter part of the session quite conservative, Buemi, Perez, Alguersuari, Kobayashi, Kovalainen, Di Resta and Sutil are eliminated. A surprising Maldonado passes to the Q3 while Massa is on the edge of the knife, the tenth.
All on track quickly, the session has concluded as it had to do it, with the two RedBull front and surprise (uppercase) to Fernando Alonso among the two McLarens. This fourth place is the best one could expect today and no term to understand how Alonso has improved 9 tenths in the Q3.
Impressive the last part of this Q3, not have many words that Red Bull is in another Galaxy, the McLarens are very strong and Fernando Alonso leads Ferrari where can. Massa, in this case was rather delayed. The back of Alonso without the controversial spoiler (which he gives them a tenth) has once again become book of science fiction.
However, between the Q1, with strange movements where we have seen pilots more above what is usual, and the Q2 where at first didn't anyone until after a few minutes, we had good ration of interesting things. More and more we see how the classification sessions concentrated action in the last few minutes, something quite painful.
In Q1, the choice between soft and hard tyres with the time difference that exist in this Grand Prix has forced many teams to opt for the softer tyre fairly soon. It gave the sense of that in the Q3 would have to think about preserving a set of tyres or give everything. Who had it worse is Nick Heidfeld, who seemed that he would leave at the last moment with a single shot to try to get some time, but has finally been put in the box. One less.
That Yes, Renault was going very well, very strong as we saw with Petrov when he activated the DRS before finishing the last curve of the circuit. Spectacular the stability of the Renault at these speeds and with the need for support of that curve.
Which have mounted soft tyres have been able to get into the fight, although it is true that we have not seen force anyone (the Ferrari for example), or the thing badly painted for the Scuderia. For me it was nothing more than the confirmation that all except RedBull and McLaren, were quite nervous. We turn to the Q2 with Trulli, Barrichello, Glock, Liuzzi, Kharthikeyan, D'Ambrosio & deleted. Both HRT within 107%.
Both RedBull, first Vettel and Webber then have come alone to the track after a short break. Alguersuari continued them to lag behind, and everything to mark a time and see what would happen later. Superiority by one side, and a desire to pass without finding traffic on the other hand. Four minutes and then they have started dating each other. Vettel is higher, even the DRS it has been activated at the beginning of the last curve. Brutal.
I leave here the Chronicle of the Q2, but must devote some space to the other participants. All the pilots that 6 minutes away from the term were eliminated had not left: two Mercedes GP, the two Force India, a Williams and a Lotus. Finally, in a latter part of the session quite conservative, Buemi, Perez, Alguersuari, Kobayashi, Kovalainen, Di Resta and Sutil are eliminated. A surprising Maldonado passes to the Q3 while Massa is on the edge of the knife, the tenth.
All on track quickly, the session has concluded as it had to do it, with the two RedBull front and surprise (uppercase) to Fernando Alonso among the two McLarens. This fourth place is the best one could expect today and no term to understand how Alonso has improved 9 tenths in the Q3.
Impressive the last part of this Q3, not have many words that Red Bull is in another Galaxy, the McLarens are very strong and Fernando Alonso leads Ferrari where can. Massa, in this case was rather delayed. The back of Alonso without the controversial spoiler (which he gives them a tenth) has once again become book of science fiction.