F1 Quals: France 2008!

Then there's that whole "I love Formula 1 racing" thing too, I suppose.

With those words echoing in my head, I managed to pee the recording of today's Quals for the French Grand Prix straight down the leg of my firesuit.  No, I didn't set the time on my VCR wrong, I didn't set it at all!  I realized that miserable fact at 805am, in the middle of my morning shower.

I caught the last two minutes of Q3, which was enough to get some impressions from the Legendary Announce Team.  To be specific, there seemed to be no energy whatsoever at Mangy-Curs, as if the matter was never in doubt.  Which seems right, considering the results.  Here's the provisional grid:

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:15.133	1:15.16	1:16.449
2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:15.024	1:15.041	1:16.490
3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:15.634	1:15.293	1:16.693
4	HWMNBN	Renault	1:15.754	1:15.483	1:16.840
5	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:15.521	1:15.362	1:16.920
6	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:15.965	1:15.639	1:16.944
7	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:15.687	1:15.723	1:17.037
8	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:16.020	1:15.488	1:17.233
9	David Coulthard's Chin	Red Bull-Renault	1:15.802	1:15.654	1:17.426
10	Timo Glock	Toyota	1:15.727	1:15.558	1:17.596
11	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	1:15.848	1:15.770
12	Grizzly Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:16.006	1:15.786
13	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	1:15.918	1:15.816
14	SeaBass	STR-Ferrari	1:16.072	1:16.045
15	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:16.085	1:16.235
16	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:16.243
17	Jenson Button	Honda	1:16.306
18	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:16.330
19	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	1:16.971
20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	1:17.053

I have no idea what happened to the BMWs.  Seventh for Kubica is bad enough, but 12th for Heidfeld?  That's awful.  Both Williams are behind the Toro Rossos?  That's embarrassing.  Note that Lewis Hamilton has a 10-spot grid penalty coming for his "ramming speed" manuever in Canada, and Rosberg has a (ridiculous) 5-spot penalty for his bumping of the already dead McLaren in the same incident.

So, there you go.  Quals are in, Ferrari is dominating, this looks like a blowout-in-the-making... unless it rains.

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