Monaco GP Qualifying

Posted on Saturday 15 May 2010

Formula One’s drivers and engineers successfully negotiated twenty three cars around Monte Carlo’s narrow, three mile street circuit today to produce an incident free qualifying session ahead of tomorrow’s Monaco Grand Prix. For the third time this season, Rubens Barrichello made it into the top ten, putting his FW32 in P9 on the timesheets. In only his first outing around the Principality, Nico Hulkenberg put in a creditable performance to secure P11 for Sunday’s race.

Rubens Barrichello:
I enjoyed myself out there today and I’m happy with ninth. I took everything out of the car that I could and I don’t think we could have done much better. We all thought traffic was going to be an issue this afternoon, but really it was fine. Monaco is a good track for our car so hopefully we will do well tomorrow.

Nico Hulkenberg:
As expected, it was a bit busy in Q1 but everyone seemed to get a lap in. The car felt pretty competitive, but my lap wasn’t perfect and I’m disappointed to have missed out on Q3 by a fraction. Eleventh is not bad, but when your team mate is ahead of you it’s never very pleasant. It’s still possible to have a good race from 11th though and I’m hoping for a decent result in my first Monaco Grand Prix.

Sam Michael, Technical Director:
It was a good effort to get one car into the top ten, but we were not quite fast enough to get both through. Rubens extracted everything he could from the car and Nico performed well considering it's his first time in a Formula One car around Monaco. The development parts worked well here and we have more coming to the next three races. We'll now focus our attention on getting good starts in the race.

Qualifying Result

Position	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	M Webber	Red Bull Racing	-	-	1:13.826
2	R Kubica	Renault	-	-	1:14.120
3	S Vettel	Red Bull Racing	-	-	1:14.227
9	R Barrichello	AT&T Williams	1:15.590 (9th)	1:15.083 (9th)	1:14.901
11	N Hulkenberg	AT&T Williams	1:16.030 (16th)	1:15.317	-

Track Conditions

Weather	Warm
Track Temp	35 - 39C
Air Temp	18 - 20C

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User Comments: 17 Post

Adam Unger

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 06:02PM

Great work Rubens!!! You're the Best!!!!
Good job Williams!!! ;)
I hope tomorrow Rubens can fight for more points!!!

Go Rubens!
Go Williams!

Rodrigo Brito Leite Bisneto

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 06:19PM

Again, Rubens in a solid performer...great job and good luck!

Marcio Hupalo

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 06:22PM

Another extraordinary work Rubens!
We're very proud of you.
Congratulations!

Felipe Bresoto

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 06:23PM

Comon Guys.. 1s to Red Bulls.. that not so far.. Rubens did a BRILHANT work.. come'on williams.. BRING more UPDATES! come'on!!!!

Kevin Li

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 06:48PM

Good job, Williams! I hope both drivers can get points tomorrow. Come on!! I am expecting tomorrow very much now.

Stefan Jost

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 06:58PM

Great job for the team and both drivers !
Well done to all in the team !
Lat's make big points tomorrow !
Go Williams Team !

Michael Newell

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 07:38PM

As a fan of this team from the beginning of this year only, I am very impressed with the McLaren-esque ability to wheel the front row in closer and closer race by race. This car has taken major strides forwards since the beginning of the season, let's hope we can maintain this rate of development and maybe in a few years give Barrichello the championship he deserves!! Fantastic job today for the whole team

Emilio Marques

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 07:39PM

Barrica, Great work again.
Bring more points tomorow!

joao santanna

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 09:59PM

BRILHANT WORK RUBENS!!! very goog!!!!!!!!!
I hope a good day tomorrow!!!
We go Rubens!!!!!
we go Williams!!!

Isabelle .

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 10:02PM

GO RUBENS!!! GREAT JOB!! WELL DONE TO ALL THE TEAM FOR MAKING THE CAR BETTER!! LETS SEE IF RUBENS CAN DO SOME GREAT OVERTAKING AND A GREAT START TO GET GREAT POINTS!!! WELL DONE NICO TOO!!! I ONLY STARTED BEING A WILLIAMS FAN THIS YEAR AND I AM BECOMING HAPPIER WITH THEIR PROGRESS EACH RACE!!! NOW FASTER THAN FORCE INDIA'S, NEED TO CATCH UP WITH THE MCLARENS AND RED BULLS AND FERRARIS!!! I KNOW WILLIAMS CAN!!! GOOD LOOK WITH TOMORROWS RACE!!!! BARRICHELLO WILL DO GREAT AS USUAL AND HOPEFULLY NICO CAN GET SOME POINTS TOO!!! BARRICHELLO WORLD CHAMPION SOON!!!!

julie frowen

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 10:18PM

Great to see Rubens back in the top ten . Go Rubens, always my champion !
GO WILLIAMS!

Bostjan Rodica

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 10:42PM

good work until now,I hope you dont do anything stupid tomorow.Be wise and try to getpoints with both cars.Crossing fingers for whole Williams family.

Fredrik Dybfest Hjorthen

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 10:54PM

Way to go, Williams! I really enjoyed watching the qualifying today, and it was good to see some real progress from the team. Keep pushing and even greater things will come:) I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you tomorrow, and I wish you all the luck in the world!

Here's to a strong result tomorrow and to finding that good feeling!

Williams rules!

Ashlee Stephenson

Posted:
15 May 2010 at 11:11PM

Nice one what a day Q was perfect carn't wait for the race now after that.

good look hope it's double points all the way!

Branimir Pantaleev

Posted:
16 May 2010 at 12:33AM

Well done, Rubens !

You have taken the best from this situation.

I believe tomorrow you can take the 8th place or even better.

Nico, das ist nur der Anfang. Es kann nur besser werden.

Viel Glück !

Roy Ge

Posted:
16 May 2010 at 04:06AM

Honestly, i expected more before the race,but 9th&11th is not bad,hope both drivers can take a step further,scoring more points in the race!
Well done,Rubens!Well done,Nico!Keep pushing!
Greetings to all fans~

forza minardi

Posted:
16 May 2010 at 10:24AM

Rubens is like a teddy bear-shaped Brazilian demi-God. He is marvellous! To drag that brick into the top 10 has to be one of the feats of the season.

For those talking about "improvement", don't you think it's more of a case of 1) the track being less punishing of car deficiencies and 2) the driver counting for a lot more? Spain, I think, was more indicative of current performance.

Anyway I hope Rubens can bag a few more points here, maybe 5th or 6th isn't out of the question. If Hulkenberg can get it together and sneak ahead of Sutil perhaps they can start getting on terms for Force India in the constructor's championship.

ACELERA RUBINHO!!!!