Williams Italian Qualifying Review

By Williams F1 Team
September 12 2009

 
 Williams Italian GP Qualifying Review:
Despite an intensive work programme to improve aerodynamic performance in low drag configuration over the past fortnight, the AT&T Williams team was unable to find sufficient performance gain to avert an uncompetitive qualifying performance for the Italian Grand Prix today. With aero performance key, and six cars benefitting from tactically important KERS systems on the high speed Monza circuit, maintaining the team’s unbroken run of eight points scores will be a significant challenge but one that will be tackled with resolve in tomorrow’s race.
Nico Rosberg:
Nico Rosberg"I started to find a bit more competitiveness during qualifying today and we made all the right decisions such as choosing the soft tyre, but I didn’t manage to put the ideal lap together as the car has not been at its best all weekend. Although we had a tough time with the car last race and we will struggle a lot here this weekend, I am convinced things will improve for Singapore and we will be back where we were in Valencia."
Kazuki Nakajima: 
Nakajima"It was a tough qualifying session for us – we knew it would be, but that doesn’t change the disappointment. The gap to making it into Q2 was very small and perhaps without hitting traffic on my last lap, something more might have been possible to give me a better start position for the race."
Patrick Head, Director of Engineering:
 Patrick Head"I started to find a bit more competitiveness during qualifying today and we made all the right decisions such as choosing the soft tyre, but I didn’t manage to put the ideal lap together as the car has not been at its best all weekend. Although we had a tough time with the car last race and we will struggle a lot here this weekend, I am convinced things will improve for Singapore and we will be back where we were in Valencia."

Monza, Italy
5.793kms / 3.600 miles

Sunny, clear
Air: 26 - 270C, Track: 38 – 430C

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

Q1

Q2

Q3

1

L Hamilton

 McLaren

-

-

1:24.066

2

A Sutil

Force India

-

-

1:24.261

3

K Raikkonen

Ferrari

-

-

1:24.523

18 N Rosberg
FW31-03 H479		 AT&T Williams 1:24.121 - -
17

K Nakajima
FW31-04 H4

 AT&T Williams 1:24.074 - -
 
 

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