2011 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix

James Chant · May 21, 2011

Vettel Fastest in P3

Sebastien Vettel set the fastest time at the very end with his only flying lap of the session. Webber was 2nd fastest, and Michael Schumacher snatched 3rd away from the McLarens.

Ferrari had a slightly less impressive session after the FIA banned their rear wing, leaving them to work on an older one with Alonso complaining of poor grip.

Elsewhere Nick Heidfeld's car caught fire on a flying lap after the Renault team mistook an unusual temperature reading as a sensor fault.

Marcel vd Aa · May 21, 2011

Why o why did they change that track...used to be one of my fav's but the present layout sucks. Does anyone know why they changed it a few years back?

James Chant · May 21, 2011

Congrats to lotus and Heiki Kovaleinen for making Q2!

15th place, very good!

Bram Hengeveld · May 21, 2011

Heiki :thumb:

What a great lap he drove there in Q2!

Scott Webber · May 21, 2011

very good indeed, here's the Line up tommorow.

Tim Brook · May 21, 2011

Red Bull have done to F1 what X-Factor did to the Xmas number1 - made it so no one cares about who's first.

Most boring Qualifying session of the past few years.

James Chant · May 21, 2011

@Scott, thanks matey, I'm at work so I can't add much from my phone!

Yann Laprevotte · May 21, 2011

Marcel vd Aa said:
Why o why did they change that track...used to be one of my fav's but the present layout sucks. Does anyone know why they changed it a few years back?

Sector 3 T1 was changed in 2003, both for safety reasons(Panis had a huge crash in private testing there) and in order to improve overtaking(didn't work at all, though).

Chicane complex was added in 2008(IIRC), once again for safety reasons.

Xosé Estrada · May 21, 2011

By the way, FIA approved on thursday the new Ferrari rear wing and suddenly banned it in friday, so now the car is not balanced as the front wing and other improvements were designed for this rear wing.

¿Where is the Ferrari International Assistance now?

Erik Tveit · May 21, 2011

Xosé Estrada said:
Where is the Ferrari International Assistance now?

RBR: Run Bernie Run :wink:

Reggie Blain · May 22, 2011

DING Ding ROUND 5

Lewis for the WIN & MSC for top 5

Abdul Al-Amry · May 22, 2011

Webber will walk it. 2nd for Lewis and 3rd Alonso. Or 2nd Alonso and 3rd Lewis. Vettel will flufff it somewhere.

ufunacaoenn · May 22, 2011

I think that the Mclaren car got better concistancy compare to Ferrari and there for Button will pass Alonso quite quickly.
On the other hand Webber seems so strong here that only a mechanical failier could ruin his chanses of winning. (well option two is that Vettel crashes into Webber but that wouldn't happen.)

Matthew Weston · May 22, 2011

I dunno, they both crashed once last year, could happen again. I personally think that Webber will win, though I think it will be a battle with Lewis and Vettel. Button will be 3rd and Alonso 4th. Though this season it seems to be that many of the new teams are getting in the pack, so it may be one of them.

Yann Laprevotte · May 22, 2011

How Renault pwned Mercedes and Ferrari in quali: http://f1.fanvision.com/TheExperts/OffTheRecord/Grand%20Prix%20Gamesmanship

Oh and also, this is going to be hard for Vettel if they don't manage to fix his KERS in time... The run down to T1 is very long, he could easily lose a few places before reaching it on lap 1.