Vettel goes fastest
After a lot speculation of how the 2010 season will be, Sebastian Vettel shows the world that his Red Bull car is indeed the fastest car on the grid. After a very strong showing last season, Red Bull Racing team show it again their raw pace and superiority. The fastest time is set by Vettel at the very end of his session whereby Vettel drove very very aggressively. But what worries me is Mark Webber only manages sixth fastest and more than a second of Vettel's time.
Other than Red Bull Racing team, Ferrari also has a very good package coming to tomorrow's race. Both of their driver, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso coming in at second and third overall. But in term of raw pace and short stint-low fuel, they are by far the most superior team on the grid. Fernando Alonso great team in Q2 is the evident of this statement.
Mclaren team on the other hand are very dissapointing. After a lot of hype and speculations on their new and ingenious solution for "stalling" the rear wing, they can't even break the 1:24 barrier. Lewis Hamilton is just fourth fastest with more than a second off the time set by Vettel.
In Mercedes camp, the biggest news is that the young German pips the great Schumacher. Rosberg (spell Nico, not keke) is fifth fastest, two ahead of his teammate Michael Schumacher. Maybe the statement made by Schumacher yesterday saying that he's still "rusty" is indeed true (just at the moment).
Robert Kubica of Renault manages ninth fastest time ahead of Force India's Adrian Sutil. Force India team has a very encouraging weekend and they will be the team to watch tomorrow (other than the red ferrari car of course). Meanwhile Sauber and Williams teams doesn't live up to their pre-season expectation. Both of the team only manages Q2 and only Barrichello that looks unlucky to not qualified for Q3.
All the new teams look set to sit at the very back of the grid tomorrow which saw Hispania Racing Team is at the very bottom of the grid and Lotuses and Virgin mixing it up above them.
This qualifying time is not a good indicator to tomorrow's race, where a lot of other unknown characteristics yet to be introduced. And tomorrow we will see all of the top ten driver will use the same rubber as they used in Q3 today. All of the drivers in Q3 uses super soft tyres and only Adrian Sutil stick with the harder compound. So expect him to stop later than any of the front runner. Take a wild guess yourself which strategy works.
Until then, have a look at the standing for tomorrow's race and make up your own mind. Cheers...
1. Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull Racing) - 1:54.101
2. Felipe Massa (Ferrari) - 1:54.242
3. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) - 1:54.608
4. Lewis Hamilton (Mclaren) - 1:55.217
5. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes GP) - 1:55.241
6. Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing) - 1:55.284
7. Michael Schumacher (Mercedes GP) - 1:55.524
8. Jenson Button (Mclaren) - 1:55.672
9. Robert Kubica (Renault) - 1:55.885
10.Adrian Sutil (Force India) - 1:56.309
11.Rubens Barrichello (Williams) - 1:55.330
12.Vitantonio Liuzzi (Force India) - 1:55.653
13.Nico Hulkenberg (Williams) - 1:55.857
14.Pedro De La Rosa (Sauber) - 1:56.237
15.Sebastian Buemi (Toro Rosso) - 1:56.265
16.Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) - 1:56.270
17.Vitaly Petrov (Renault) - 1:56.619
18.Jaime Alguersuari (Toro Rosso) - 1:57.071
19.Timo Glock (Virgin) - 1:59.728
20.Jarno Trulli (Lotus) - 1:59.852
21.Heikki Kovalainen (Lotus) - 2:00.313
22.Lucas Di Grassi (Virgin) - 2:00.587
23.Bruno Senna (Hispania Racing Team) - 2:03.240
24.Karun Chandhok (Hispania Racing Team) - 2:04.904
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