April 18, 2015
F1 Quals: Bahrain 2015
Pretty night at Sakhir tonight as the F1 Circus gets ready for tomorrow's race, but who's going to be leading the horde towards Turn 1 when the lights go out? Here's the provisional grid:
The same "Big Six" as we've come to expect, just a little scrambled. Actually, Vettel was the polesitter right up until the very last moment. Unsurprisingly, Hamilton nailed him on his last attempt, and to be honest there was a sense of inevitability to the proceedings. Of COURSE Lewis Hamilton was going to be on pole. No, it doesn't matter than his car is on fire and he's only got two tires, he'll still be faster.
One nice thing to see is that McLaren appears to have begun their long trek out of the darkness, at least kinda. Jenson Button had an engine failure before he could set an actual qualifying time, and races at the Steward's whim. However! HWMODBNA got his valiant steed out of Q1 and firmly into Q2. Reliability is still an issue obviously, but the signs are there: they're picking up about a second per lap ever race. Again, this is the easy stuff they're doing. Analogy time! When painting a wall, it's a cinch to slather the big areas and cover dozens of square feet at a time. Things start to slow down, though, when you're painting the baseboards and the moulding and around the electrical outlets. It's those details that make the wall look good when you're done... and it's the little details that take a F1 car from the midpack to join the big guys.
The race is in the morning, 10am Pond Central time... you bring the bagels, I'll have the cold pizza ready. See ya then!
Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 |
1 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:33.928 | 1:32.669 | 1:32.571 |
2 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:34.919 | 1:33.623 | 1:32.982 |
3 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:34.398 | 1:33.878 | 1:33.129 |
4 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1:34.568 | 1:33.540 | 1:33.227 |
5 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 1:34.161 | 1:33.897 | 1:33.381 |
6 | Felipe Massa | Williams | 1:34.488 | 1:33.551 | 1:33.744 |
7 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing | 1:34.691 | 1:34.403 | 1:33.832 |
8 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India | 1:35.653 | 1:34.613 | 1:34.450 |
9 | Carlos Sainz | Toro Rosso | 1:35.371 | 1:34.641 | 1:34.462 |
10 | Lettuce Grosjean | Lotus | 1:35.007 | 1:34.123 | 1:34.484 |
11 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 1:35.451 | 1:34.704 | |
12 | Felipe Nasr | Sauber | 1:35.310 | 1:34.737 | |
13 | Sony Ericsson | Sauber | 1:35.438 | 1:35.034 | |
14 | HWMODBNA | McLaren | 1:35.205 | 1:35.039 | |
15 | Embryo Verstappen | Toro Rosso | 1:35.611 | 1:35.103 | |
16 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus | 1:35.677 | ||
17 | Kid Kvyat | Red Bull Racing | 1:35.800 | ||
18 | Will Stevens | Manor | 1:38.713 | ||
19 | Roberto Merhi | Manor | 1:39.722 | ||
20 | Jenson Button | McLaren | No time |
The same "Big Six" as we've come to expect, just a little scrambled. Actually, Vettel was the polesitter right up until the very last moment. Unsurprisingly, Hamilton nailed him on his last attempt, and to be honest there was a sense of inevitability to the proceedings. Of COURSE Lewis Hamilton was going to be on pole. No, it doesn't matter than his car is on fire and he's only got two tires, he'll still be faster.
One nice thing to see is that McLaren appears to have begun their long trek out of the darkness, at least kinda. Jenson Button had an engine failure before he could set an actual qualifying time, and races at the Steward's whim. However! HWMODBNA got his valiant steed out of Q1 and firmly into Q2. Reliability is still an issue obviously, but the signs are there: they're picking up about a second per lap ever race. Again, this is the easy stuff they're doing. Analogy time! When painting a wall, it's a cinch to slather the big areas and cover dozens of square feet at a time. Things start to slow down, though, when you're painting the baseboards and the moulding and around the electrical outlets. It's those details that make the wall look good when you're done... and it's the little details that take a F1 car from the midpack to join the big guys.
The race is in the morning, 10am Pond Central time... you bring the bagels, I'll have the cold pizza ready. See ya then!
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"HWMODBNA?" I missed the introduction of the new acronym.
Posted by: Mauser at April 19, 2015 12:31 AM (TJ7ih)
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Dangit, can't find the race to watch on Charter. Can't wait for the write up!
Posted by: Tom Tjarks at April 19, 2015 08:22 AM (8TxhX)
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