Singapore GP: Williams Qualifying Review

By Williams F1 Team
September 22 2012

We hear from the Williams F1 team as they look back at their qualifying for the 2012 Singapore Grand Prix.

 
 Williams Singapore GP Qualifying Review:
Maldonado
 
Qualifying Notes
•  Pastor Maldonado will start on the front row of the grid for the Singapore Grand Prix tomorrow night.
• Pastor drove a great lap to qualify second, posting a time of 1:46.804.
• Bruno Senna qualified in 17th after touching the wall on his supersoft tyre run in Q2 and damaging the rear suspension on his FW34. The team are now working to repair his car ahead of tomorrow’s race.
 
Pastor Maldonado: 
Pastor Maldonado"We’ve been working really hard as at the beginning of the weekend we were struggling for pace. We continued improving throughout qualifying and we found a good balance in the car. I then had to put together a good lap in Q3 and I knew we could be right up at the front. I’m really looking forward to the race as we’ve shown consistently good pace on our longer runs throughout practice. We have all the tools to be competitive tomorrow, so it should be a good race for us."
Bruno Senna
 Bruno Senna"It wasn’t ideal today. I was pushing very hard to get a good lap but I pushed a little over the edge. This place isn’t very forgiving so we broke the rear suspension. Unfortunately that brought an early end to qualifying but we now we need to focus on tomorrow. We have extra sets of new tyres now which I think everyone is going to need. We have a good car and it’s a long race. It isn’t easy to overtake here but we’ve raced from the back before. I’m going to need to push really hard to get some points out the race tomorrow."
Mark Gillan Chief Operations Engineer:
 Mark Gillan"Pastor's superb front row qualifying result brings a very welcome boost to the whole team and places Pastor in a strong position to fight for a podium position tomorrow. After safely making it through the first qualifying session unfortunately Bruno hit the wall in the second session damaging his rear suspension leaving him out of position in 17th for tomorrow’s race."
Senna
 

Marina Bay Circuit Singapore

Weather: Hot and humid
Air: 28 - 28°C Track: 29 - 30°C

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

Q1

Q2

 Q3

1

L Hamilton

 McLaren 1:48.285 1:46.665 1:46.362

2

P Maldonado

 Williams 1:49.494 1:47.602 1:46.804
3 S Vettel Red Bull 1:48.240 1:46.791 1:46.905
           
2 P Maldonado
FW34 04
RS27-5373/2		 Williams F1 Team 1:49.494 (12th) 1:47.602 (6th) 1:46.804
17

B Senna
FW34 03
RS27-5348/2

 Williams F1 Team 1:49.809 (17th) No time (17th) -
 

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