June 09, 2018
F1 Quals: Canada 2018
Wow, hey, look at the time! Huh. Took me long enough. For that, I apologize... I didn't get home from lunch until nearly 4pm, watched the quals, and then it was, like 645pm and I was exhausted. So I took a nap, and now here we are. But enough of this, you're not here to revel in the mundane existence that is the life of a Wonderduck, you want to know about the exciting times of the F1 Circus! Well, here's the provisional grid for the 2018 Grand Prix du Canada:
| Pos |
Driver | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1:11.710 | 1:11.524 | 1:10.764 | |
| 2 | 1:11.950 | 1:11.514 | 1:10.857 | |
| 3 | 1:12.008 | 1:11.472 | 1:10.937 | |
| 4 | 1:11.835 | 1:11.740 | 1:10.996 | |
| 5 | 1:11.725 | 1:11.620 | 1:11.095 | |
| 6 | 1:12.459 | 1:11.434 | 1:11.116 | |
| 7 | 1:12.795 | 1:11.916 | 1:11.973 | |
| 8 | 1:12.577 | 1:12.141 | 1:12.084 | |
| 9 | 1:12.689 | 1:12.097 | 1:12.168 | |
| 10 | 1:12.702 | 1:12.395 | 1:12.671 | |
| 11 | 1:12.680 | 1:12.606 | ||
| 12 | 1:12.587 | 1:12.635 | ||
| 13 | 1:12.945 | 1:12.661 | ||
| 14 | 1:12.979 | 1:12.856 | ||
| 15 | 1:12.998 | 1:12.865 | ||
| 16 | 1:13.047 | |||
| 17 | 1:13.590 | |||
| 18 | 1:13.643 | |||
| 19 | 1:14.593 |
I never thought I'd say this, but "poor Lettuce." You'll note there's only 19 cars listed... the Haas of Lettuce Grosjean never made it to the track in Q1, having had the most impressive dose of power unit problems we've seen in a long time. He was smoking as he pulled out of the garage, and once he turned onto pit lane headed for the exit, he managed to lay down just an epic smoke screen. No worries about mosquitos for the rest of the weekend, that's for sure. But he hits a marmot on Friday, now this happens on Saturday... I'm terrified for what'll occur in the race. We may see the first F1 car in the St Lawrence Seaway tomorrow.
As far as the rest of Quals went, do you realize that this is the first time in four years that Lewis Hamilton isn't on pole? Say what you want about the guy, and plenty of people have, but he owns this track. He never got hooked up today though, never managed anything but scruffy lap after scruffy lap. He knew it, too. The two Ferraris looked amazing, clearly the class of the session. The only thing that kept us from an all Red Car front row was a brief moment of lost grip early in Kimi Raikkonen's last try.
DH Verstappen has to be muttering to himself. After leading the timesheets in all three practice sessions, the newly upgraded Ferrari engine and the Mercedes Party Mode proved too much for the Red Bull to deal with. It's fast in the corners and under braking, but that advantage is nullified by the lack of power down that long, long back straight. Still, they'll be starting on the hypersoft tires while Merc and Ferrari are on the harder ultrasofts, so they'll have the grip advantage. The ultras do seem to be the tire of choice though...
Race is in the afternoon... weather permitting, we'll be watching it live for once!
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I say things about Hamilton all the time, but I still think he's the best driver on the grid. He has more wins at the Canada GP than the entire rest of the grid combined. Mercedes was apparently pretty shocked by the results here. (We don't get whatever ESPN quals was on, so I didn't see it for myself, but at least one person said the facial expressions in the Merc paddock were pretty grim.)
I don't think Verstappen would have been surprised...we all know practice times don't count for much when your opponents have party mode. I'm just glad he didn't crash. Now if he can keep it clean through Turn 1 and manage his hypers well...The Red Bulls were looking much better on the hypers than their opponents, particularly the Mercs, all weekend. I would have thought they'd prefer to start on ultras and finish on hypers, but apparently they both wanted to do it the other way (it wasn't just to get out of Q2).
I don't think Verstappen would have been surprised...we all know practice times don't count for much when your opponents have party mode. I'm just glad he didn't crash. Now if he can keep it clean through Turn 1 and manage his hypers well...The Red Bulls were looking much better on the hypers than their opponents, particularly the Mercs, all weekend. I would have thought they'd prefer to start on ultras and finish on hypers, but apparently they both wanted to do it the other way (it wasn't just to get out of Q2).
Posted by: Mrs. Will (Kathryn) at June 10, 2018 06:22 AM (0UR/o)
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They're going to have to come up with an alternate naming mode for the tires. They're running out of superlatives.
Posted by: Mauser at June 10, 2018 10:50 AM (Ix1l6)
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That... was an astonishing amount of smoke. Wowza.
Posted by: GreyDuck at June 10, 2018 07:08 PM (rKFiU)
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