Hungarian GP : Williams drivers outside top ten in FP3


Rubens leaves the pits

By Andrew Hooper
July 30 2011

Both AT&T Williams F1 drivers would finish outside top ten after the final Saturday practice for the 2011 Hungarian GP. Rubens Barrichello would finish in 14th while Pastor Maldonado was 15th. For the Williams team their pace would most likely see them make it into the second period of qualifying but not any further as they look to find further pace from the FW33. But having said that their final pace in the session was not that far off that of one of their major rivals Sauber.

 
 Hungarian GP Saturday Practice
 
Barrichello
 

The final practice session for the 2011 Hungarian Grand Prix would be run under sunny conditions with both AT&T Williams F1 drivers looking to improve from their Friday performances. Team driver Rubens Barrichello would have his sons in the Williams garage as he prepared for the start of the hour long session. With the start of the session both Rubens and team-mate Pastor Maldonado would take to the track returning shortly
after their installation laps. Both drivers would be testing the new rear wing in this session.

It would not be until around twenty minutes into the session that both Rubens and Pastor would come out for their first serious runs. With twenty five minutes of the session completed Rubens was in eighth with 1m:24.954 while Pastor was just outside the top 10 as they continued on their first runs. Rubens would pit but would return to the track still on the prime tyre. Midway through the session Pastor would put two wheels in the gravel seeing him returning to his pit.

With just over twenty minutes left in the session Rubens was tenth with a lap time of 1m:24.954 while Pastor was in fourteenth, 1m:25.265. At this time Vettel was fastest from Rosberg and Hamilton.

Both drivers would go out on their qualifying practice runs, both using the super soft tyre. Rubens would set a time good enough for tenth but despite been substantially quicker on the option tyre Rubens and Pastor would finish the session in fourteenth and fifteenth. Rubens time was a 1m:23.663 while Pastor had set a 1m:23.894. With the end of the session it would be Vettel who was fastest, 1m;21.168, from Alonso and Button.

For the Williams team their pace would most likely see them make it into the second period of qualifying but not any further as they look to find further pace from the FW33. But having said that their final pace in the session was not that far off that of one of their major rivals Sauber and ahead of both Torro Rosso cars.

 
Maldonado
 
Pos  Driver	    Team		  Time       Laps
 1.  S Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      1m21.168s  17
 2.  F Alonso       Ferrari               1m21.469s  13
 3.  J Button       McLaren-Mercedes      1m21.639s  14
 4.  M Webber       Red Bull-Renault      1m21.645s  18
 5.  F Massa        Ferrari               1m22.002s  14
 6.  N Rosberg      Mercedes              1m22.534s  22
 7.  L Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      1m22.667s  14
 8.  M Schumacher   Mercedes              1m23.037s  19
 9.  V Petrov       Renault               1m23.175s  19
10.  P di Resta     Force India-Mercedes  1m23.276s  18
11.  N Heidfeld     Renault               1m23.281s  13
12.  S Perez        Sauber-Ferrari        1m23.375s  18
13.  K Kobayashi    Sauber-Ferrari        1m23.626s  25
14.  R Barrichello  Williams-Cosworth     1m23.663s  17
15.  P Maldonado    Williams-Cosworth     1m23.894s  17
16.  A Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  1m23.966s  18
17.  J Alguersuari  Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m23.998s  15
18.  S Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    1m25.061s  19
19.  J Trulli       Lotus-Renault         1m25.141s  20
20.  H Kovalainen   Lotus-Renault         1m25.501s  20
21.  J D'Ambrosio   Virgin-Cosworth       1m26.955s  20
22.  D Ricciardo    HRT-Cosworth          1m26.991s  19
23.  T Glock        Virgin-Cosworth       1m27.174s  16
24.  V Liuzzi       HRT-Cosworth          1m27.713s  20
 

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