Archive for April 2009
Costly Assumptions
Kimi Raikkonen qualified ninth for the second round of the world championship, while Felipe Massa is down on the ninth row in sixteenth spot. To put it bluntly, it is not a promising first step for tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix. An assumption as to the state of the track surface and the strength of the [...]
Bridgestone Saturday Update
Bridgestone’s soft tyre allowed Jenson Button to set an exciting pole lap of 1min 35.181secs at Sepang for the Malaysian Grand Prix. Button took pole by just over nine hundredths from Panasonic Toyota Racing’s Jarno Trulli. Track conditions were improved from Friday, with more rubber down, but teams and drivers still struggled to find the [...]
Saturday analysis – Team quotes
The Brawn-Mercedes drivers topped the times in all three qualifying sessions with Rubens going quickest at the end of Q1 on the soft option tyre and Jenson posting the fastest lap of Q2 on his first set of options having used the harder prime tyre for his previous runs. Both drivers completed two runs in [...]
Saturday analysis – Driver quotes
Jenson Button took his second successive pole position today in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix at the Sepang International Circuit maintaining his and the Brawn GP team’s perfect start to the 2009 Formula One season. Jenson Button P1 “Achieving pole position today in Malaysia is possibly even more special than last week in Australia. [...]
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