Williams Belgian Qualifying Review

By Williams F1 Team
August 29 2009

 
 Williams Belgian GP Qualifying Review:
Today’s qualifying session at the Spa circuit ahead of tomorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix threw up an uncharacteristic front row, and, by extension, saw a number of favoured drivers knocked out in the earlier stages of the sessions. After an uncompetitive start to the weekend with the AT&T Williams team struggling to find pace, late overnight changes and a commanding session-best sector two in Q2 enabled Nico Rosberg to maintain a near-perfect top 10 qualifying record this season. In the fluctuating form up and down the field, Kazuki Nakajima was unable to repeat the performance of his team-mate and starts tomorrow’s race on the ninth row of the grid.
Nico Rosberg:
Nico Rosberg"We have really struggled all weekend but we managed to get the best out of Q2 and finishing 10th was possibly the best we could achieve carrying quite a lot of fuel. We have a good strategy and therefore I think we can fight for some points tomorrow. It was a very strange qualifying session here today, I think maybe the way the teams are using their tyres is making quite a difference."
Kazuki Nakajima: 
Nakajima"We struggled here yesterday in practice, but Nico managed to either drive very well or find a set-up direction that I didn’t. I hope I can learn something from the progress he made today and have a better time tomorrow in the race to make up for today’s disappointment."
Sam Michael Technical Director WilliamsF1:
 Sam Michael"We had a difficult day yesterday and we changed a lot of things overnight which definitely made the car better. It was an unbelievably tight qualifying session considering how long the lap is, which goes to show how much of a difference the rules have made. Nico did a fantastic job to get the car through to Q3 and from that point we adjusted our strategy to concentrate on Sunday. Congratulations to Force India for their first pole."

Spa Francorchamps, Belgium
7.004kms / 4.352 miles

Broken cloud
Air: 14 - 160C, Track: 24 – 320C

POS

DRIVER

TEAM

Q1

Q2

Q3

1

G Fisichella

 Force India

-

-

1:46.308

2

J Trulli

Toyota

-

-

1:46.395

3

N Heidfeld

BMW Sauber

-

-

1:46.500

5 N Rosberg
FW31-03 H474		 AT&T Williams 1:45.486 (8th) 1:45.047 (10th) 1:47.362
9

K Nakajima
FW31-04 H483

 AT&T Williams 1:46.037 - -
 
 

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