F1 Quals: Japan 2013

It's just after 9pm Pond Central, and I've only just now made it home from a busy day at work.  Yes, on a Saturday.  This is Homecoming Weekend, y'see, and more importantly, it's the first Homecoming after Duck U's name change which I don't think I've mentioned on here before.  Anyway, originally Duck U wasn't a U at all, but a "C", as in "College."  However, this past July 1st, we officially became Duck U, to massive acclaim from everybody but the alumni, who resoundingly said "meh" to the change... but they still showed up in droves today.  Throw in dinner with Ph.Duck, and voila, 9pm-ish.

All of which is my long-winded way of saying that I haven't watched Quals, and probably won't, not with the race only three hours away.  But here's the grid anyway:

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:32.271	1:31.513	1:30.915
2	Hannibal Vettel	Red Bull Racing-Renault	1:32.397	1:31.290	1:31.089
3	Shiv Hamilton	Mercedes	1:32.340	1:31.636	1:31.253
4	Lettuce Grosjean	Lotus-Renault	1:31.824	1:31.565	1:31.365
5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:31.994	1:31.668	1:31.378
6	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:32.244	1:31.764	1:31.397
7	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber-Ferrari	1:32.465	1:31.848	1:31.644
8	HWMNBN	Ferrari	1:32.371	1:31.828	1:31.665
9	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus-Renault	1:32.377	1:31.662	1:31.684
10	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:32.606	1:31.838	1:31.827
11	Sergio Perez	McLaren-Mercedes	1:32.718	1:31.989
12	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:32.286	1:31.992
13	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Renault	1:32.613	1:32.013
14	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:32.673	1:32.063
15	Joke Isn't Funny Maldonado	Williams-Renault	1:32.875	1:32.093
16	Daniel Ricciardo	STR-Ferrari	1:32.804	1:32.485
17	Adrian F'n Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:32.890
18	Jules Vergne	STR-Ferrari	1:33.357
19	Max Chilton	Marussia-Cosworth	1:34.320
20	Charles ToothPic	Caterham-Renault	1:34.556
21	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham-Renault	1:34.879
22	Jules Bianchi	Marussia-Cosworth	1:34.958

My heavens, it's someone OTHER than Vettel, Rosberg or Hamilton on pole... stop the presses!  Of course, the soon-to-be-four-time-world-champion, or STBFTWC, which I suspect means something really rude in Klingon, had a KERS failure in Q3, so there is that.  On the other hand, you know that Mark Webber isn't going to be particularly helpful to his so-called "teammate".  If he can avoid a Mark Webber Lousy Start^® , we should be in for an interesting race indeed.

As an aside... if the STBFTWC wins and HWMNBN finishes eighth or lower, the STBFTWC will actually be the FTWC.  Go Webber!

Right, I'm going to go rest my weary bones.  F1U! tomorrow... see ya then.

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