F1 Quals: Abu Dhabi 2013

Well, it's nearly 830pm, I've only just gotten home from work, and I'm not going to get to watch Quals... which is a shame, because it appears to have been interesting!  Here's the grid:

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:41.568	1:40.575	1:39.957
2	4Time Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:41.683	1:40.781	1:40.075
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:41.420	1:40.473	1:40.419
4	Shiv Hamilton	Mercedes	1:40.693	1:40.477	1:40.501
DSQ	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	1:41.276	1:40.971	1:40.542
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:41.631	1:40.931	1:40.576
7	Lettuce Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:41.447	1:40.948	1:40.997
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:41.254	1:40.989	1:41.015
9	Sergio Perez	McLaren-Mercedes	1:41.687	1:40.812	1:41.068
10	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	1:41.884	1:40.852	1:41.111
11	HWMNBN	Ferrari	1:41.397	1:41.093
12	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:41.676	1:41.133
13	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:41.817	1:41.200
14	Jules Vergne	STR-Ferrari	1:41.692	1:41.279
15	Don't Look Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:41.365	1:41.395
16	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:41.862	1:41.447
17	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:41.999
18	Adrian F'n  Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:42.051
19	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:43.252
20	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:43.398
21	Charles ToothPic	Caterham-Renault	1:43.528
22	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:44.198
	Q1 107% Time		1:47.741

The big news is, obviously, Jules Bianchi being hit with a five-grid-spot penalty for an unfortunate gearbox change.and will thus be starting from somewhere near Umm al-Quwain.  No, okay, I'm joking of course.  The sharper-eyed amongst you will have seen the dreaded "DSQ" next to Kimi Raikkonen's name.  He qualified in fifth place, his best performance since the summer break... and then his car failed scrutineering afterwards.  The FIA says that the floor of his car deflected too much in the usual tests, while Lotus said that was because the piece they were testing was broken on a curb during the session.  This explanation was not accepted, which means that Kimi Raikkonen was duly excluded from Quals altogether and will be starting from the back of the grid.

Considering the news that came out yesterday that he has not been paid by Lotus at any time this season, one has to think that Kimi is more than a little peeved.

Me, I'm more than a little tired. Race in the morning, though considering the whole time change thing, I have no idea when.  See you sometime tomorrow with a F1U!

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