July 11, 2009
Career Maiden Pole for Mark Webber
Webber took his maiden career pole position after a fascinating last minute shootout which saw a fierce battle between the Aussie, team make Vettel, the two Brawns and McLaren’s Hamilton. The first charge for the pole came from Hamilton but was soon pushed down by Button, but in the end its was Webber’s day when he took the pole with an excellent qualifying lap at 1 minute and 32.230 seconds. A last minute charge saw Vettel temporarily taking the 
second spot with a qualifying time of 1 minute 32.480 second but was soon pushed down by Button with a time of 1 minute 32.473 seconds. The last charge for qualifying for the pole came from Brazilian Barrichello clocking 1 minute 32.357 taking the second and pushing his team mate to the third place.
The qualifing also had some cheer for McLaren as both there cars qualified in the Top ten after a long time with Heikki Kovalainen qualifying sixth behind team mate Lewis with a timing of 1 minute 33.859 seconds.
Force India driver Adrian Sutil threw a major surprise when he qualified seventh on his home circuit as he drove an aggressive qualifying lap clocking 1 minute 34.316 seconds. There was a word around that Force India were expecting some improvement in there performance but nobody expected such a shocker. Last years winning team Ferrari must be disappointed with their performance as Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen are placed at eighth and ninth with a qualifying time of 1 minute 34.574 second and 1 minute 34.710 seconds respectively. Renault’s Nelson Piquet finished his qualifying at the tenth place with a time of 1 minute 34.803 seconds.
The weather gods also threw a surprise at the Nurburgring in the Q2 and created a huge confusion. Two drivers (Nakajima and Massa) went off the road as they were using the slick tyre’s. if that was not enough to give everyone a sign of caution, Kovalainen spun and banged the wall in Turn Four but managed to continue.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Filed Under: Formula 1
Leave a reply
