F1 Quals: Belgium 2011

I still haven't watched Quals, so here's the provisional grid with a minimum of conversation:

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	2:03.029	2:03.317	1:48.298
2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	2:03.008	2:02.823	1:48.730
3	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	2:02.827	2:03.302	1:49.376
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2:05.834	2:04.507	1:50.256
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	2:05.091	2:03.723	1:50.552
6	NKOTT	STR-Ferrari	2:05.419	2:04.561	1:50.773
7	Bruno Senna	Renault	2:05.047	2:04.452	1:51.121
8	HWMNBN	Ferrari	2:04.450	2:02.768	1:51.251
9	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	2:06.284	2:04.625	1:51.374
10	Red Menace	Renault	2:05.292	2:03.466	1:52.303
11	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	2:04.744	2:04.692
12	Gandalf Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	2:07.194	2:04.757
13	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	2:01.813	2:05.150
14	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	2:05.720	2:07.349
15	Adrian F'n Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	2:06.000	2:07.777
16	Rabbi Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	2:05.621	2:08.106
17	Heikki Kovalaineninnie	Lotus-Renault	2:06.780	2:08.354
18	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	2:07.758
19	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	2:08.773
20	Tim O'Glockenspiel	Virgin-Cosworth	2:09.566
DNQ	Custard d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	2:11.601
DNQ	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	2:11.616
DNQ	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	2:13.077
DNQ	Slappy Schumacher	Mercedes	No time
	Q1 107% Time		2:10.339

Guess what?  It rained at Spa; go figure.  As a result, the grid is a little jumbled.  NKOTT in 6th?  Bruno Senna 7th?  Button 13th?  Lap times in the 2-minute range?  It must have dried out substantially for Q3, though.

Slappy had a run-in with a wall early in Q1, which is why he's got a "No time."  He'll surely be allowed to race, though.  Lord only knows if the three other DNQs will be allowed to participate, though considering the weather I suspect they will.  Rabbi Maldonado qual'd 16th, but he's received a five-spot grid penalty for intentionally running into Lewis Hamilton after Q2 ended, after an altercation during the session. 

Oh, look!  Vettel is on pole.  Who'dathunkit? 

Race in the morning.  I have no idea when the F1U! will go up.  It might be Sunday, maybe Monday, maybe a week from next Tuesday.  We'll see.  Keep your eyes peeled, though... I've only missed two writeups in six years of this stuff; one of them was because of a bad thunderstorm, the other because of That Terrible Weekend two years ago.  A flooded bookstore shouldn't stop me.  See you soon.

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