Korean GP: Williams Qualifying Review


Pastor Maldonado

By AT&T Williams F1 Team
October 15 2011

It would be a difficult qualifying for the AT&T Williams F1 team with Pastor Maldonado and Rubens Barrichello only managing 16th and 18th. The only advantage is that both drivers will have lots of tyres for Sunday's race.

 
 Williams Korean GP Qualifying Review:
AT&T Williams were unable to extract a more competitive performance than a Q2 time out of the FW33 during today’s qualifying session for the Korean Grand Prix. On the super soft tyre throughout, Pastor Maldonado passed through Q1 and in his first qualifying experience at the Korean International Circuit set the 16th fastest time in Q2. Meanwhile, team mate Rubens Barrichello will start tomorrow’s race from P18 on the grid with a complete set of fresh, soft rubber.
Rubens Barrichello:
Rubens Barrichello"My first lap in Q1 was quite good but my tyres had started to go off by the third lap. As we had decided to conserve tyres before the session started, we aborted the run and came in. We made the best call we could today based on the performance we have in the car at the moment."
Pastor Maldonado: 
Pastor Maldonado"I didn’t get much running on low fuel this morning, just four timed laps, and this track is not easy, especially sectors 2 and 3. I think I did some good laps in qualifying, in both Q1 and Q2. We are a bit far away from the top ten so we need to keep working. Tomorrow is another day and we have lots of new tyres which is important for our race strategy."
Mark Gillan Chief Operations Engineer:
 Mark Gillan"P3 was trouble free with both cars concentrating on collecting as much information as possible from the soft and super soft tyres for the race. This was particularly important considering we had no dry running on Friday. No one is happy with our performance in qualifying and we are all aware of the need to continue to improve throughout the remainder of the season. As a team we are pushing hard to understand the areas where we need to concentrate on in order to accelerate the development process and drive the performance forward."

Korean International Circuit, Korea
5.621km / 3.492 miles

Weather: Dry but cloudy
Air: 22 - 230C, Track: 28 – 310C

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

Q1

Q2

Q3

1

L Hamilton

 McLaren

1:33.051

1:31.424

1:30.466

2

S Vettel

Red Bull

1:32.947

1:31.434

1:30.475

3

 J Button

McLaren

1:32.843

1:31.139

1:30.617

16 P Maldonado
FW33-02 CA422		 AT&T Williams 1:39.436 (16th) 1:39.189 -
18

R Barrichello
FW33-04 CA406

 AT&T Williams 1:39.538 - -
 

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