Posts Tagged ‘Williams’
2010 Bahrain GP Qualifying: Vettel takes pole
Red Bull’s Sebastien Vettel took the first pole of 2010 for the season opening Bahrain Grand Prix. He slotted his car, christened Luscious Liz this year, at 1:54.101 in Q3 - only 0.141 seconds ahead of Felipe Massa’s Ferrari. Massa upstaged team mate Fernando Alonso by another 0.4 seconds and that is quite an achievement for the Brazilian who [...]
Bahrain Grand Prix 2010: Friday Practice
The first Friday practice of the season turned out to be on expected lines. You can call them two sessions ‘mini-me’ versions of pre-season testing if you want, for nothing much different could be said about the times racked up by the teams and drivers. Nothing different from what we saw in those four tests atleast except maybe the odd [...]
Last day of pre-season F1 testing
Lewis Hamilton in his McLaren notched up the fastest time of the Barcelona test on the last day of pre-season testing for the 2010 season. His 1:20.472 was the quickest time of the last four days the teams spent at the Circuit de Catalunya. He was just 0.032 seconds quicker than Mark Webber’s Red Bull who clocked 1:20.496. In fact the top [...]
Are Mercedes GP sandbagging?
On the penultimate day of the Barcelona test, Nico Rosberg notched up the fastest time at the Circuit de Catalunya with 1:20.686. Now that maybe just 0.072 seconds off the pace set by Nico Hulkenberg’s Williams on day two but nothing can be read out of it just as yet, except of course that Nico – the Mercedes one – was on a qualifying [...]
Barcelona Testing Day One and Day Two
After two days of testing at Barcelona, and dry ones at that, the teams are somewhat beginning to show their true colors. It was expected for this one test is the closest the teams get to a Grand Prix circuit before the racing begins and of course the factor that Circuit de Catalunya is an awesome indicator of the readiness of the teams at this [...]
