F1 Quals: India 2013

This is ridiculous.  It's like the other drivers aren't even trying any more.  Here's the provisional grid for the 2013 Grand Prix of India:

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Hannibal Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:25.943	1:24.568	1:24.119
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:25.833	1:25.304	1:24.871
3	Shiv Hamilton	Mercedes	1:25.802	1:25.259	1:24.941
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:25.665	1:25.097	1:25.047
5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:25.793	1:25.389	1:25.201
6	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	1:25.819	1:25.191	1:25.248
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:25.883	1:25.339	1:25.334
8	HWMNBN	Ferrari	1:25.934	1:24.885	1:25.826
9	Sergio Perez	McLaren-Mercedes	1:26.107	1:25.365	1:26.153
10	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:25.574	1:25.458	1:26.487
11	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	1:25.673	1:25.519
12	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:25.908	1:25.711
13	Adrian F'n Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.164	1:25.740
14	Jules Vergne	STR-Ferrari	1:26.155	1:25.798
15	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:26.178	1:26.134
16	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.057	1:26.336
17	Lettuce Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:26.577
18	No Joke Here Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:26.842
19	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:26.970
20	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:27.105
21	Charles ToothPic	Caterham-Renault	1:27.487
22	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:28.138

.752 of a second per lap.  Really?  Why even bother?  Here's the F1U! for Sunday's race: "Vettel wins by 20 seconds.  What a shock."  The only hope we have is that HWMNBN is on the medium tire and Vettel on the soft.  The mediums are wearing well, the softs are going about six laps before they die... maybe HWMNBN will be able to parlay this into something other than a 7th place finish.  I'm not hopeful, but maybe.

I'm rooting for HWMNBN.  Shoot me now.

Race in the morning.  See you afterwards!

Posted by: Wonderduck at 07:07 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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