Hungarian GP Qualifying

Posted on Saturday 31 Jul 2010 and tagged with hungary, qualifying.

In today’s qualifying session for the Hungarian Grand Prix, Nico Hulkenberg maintained his recent form of contesting all three sessions and completed the afternoon in the top ten. After a strong start, Nico’s AT&T Williams team-mate, Rubens Barrichello, fell foul of the short lap distance which created a very busy Q2 session during which the Brazilian was unable to find sufficient track space with which to extract the best from the Bridgestone option tyre. He will start tomorrow’s race in P12.

Nico Hulkenberg:
Reaching Q3 was good today as everybody is very aware how closely bunched the field is behind the front few teams, but as always, it is human nature to feel that more could have been possible. The Renaults and De La Rosa were strong today with just a couple of tenths between us all. Although overtaking will be challenging tomorrow, we know that the race is going to be highly competitive with the form of the cars around us.

Rubens Barrichello:
In Q1, I was very happy, the car was perfect and I only needed one run and was quite comfortable to see the rest of the session out in the garage. Then going into Q2, I had a lot of traffic on my out lap and basically because the lap was so slow, I don’t think the tyre got up to operating temperature. The tyres were just not there, and the car balance was out and by the last run, the tyres had given up.

Patrick Head, Director of Engineering:
It is a long race ahead tomorrow and we will need better starts than at Hockenheim, as well as good first laps. Both tyres look stable but I think most of the front teams will run similar strategies.

Qualifying Result

Position	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	S Vettel	Red Bull Racing	-	-	1:18.773
2	M Webber	Red Bull Bull Racing	-	-	1:19.184
3	F Alonso	Ferrari	-	-	1:19.987
10	N Hulkenberg	AT&T Williams	1:21.598 (11th)	1:21.275 (10th)	1:21.710
12	R Barrichello	AT&T Williams	1:21.478 (9th)	1:21.331	-

Track Conditions

Weather	Clear
Track Temp	35 to 41 degrees C
Air Temp	26 degrees C

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User Comments: 5 Post

Felipe Bresoto

Posted:
31 Jul 2010 at 04:54PM

Bad Luck to Rubens ;(

Fredrik Dybfest Hjorthen

Posted:
31 Jul 2010 at 07:48PM

Overall, I think there was more speed to find from the FW32s. As Rubens says, the pace in Q1 was encouraging. But with both drivers not on the right place at the right time, this is probably an ok result. The most important thing is that the team is doing an amazing job in improving the car package and that their efforts are starting to pay off.

Best of luck tomorrow, and here's to excellent starts and impressive race pace for both cars!

Go Williams!

ANDREA PALMA

Posted:
31 Jul 2010 at 10:46PM

GOOD JOB HULK,..
RUBENS: GOOD LUCK FOR TOMORROW :)

Ashlee Stephenson

Posted:
01 Aug 2010 at 01:24AM

it was a shame not to see both drivers up there in the top ten but nice work from hulk got us in there well done to our young rookie nice to see him out do barichello!!

hope we have a good start in the race and see our boys both in the points top five would be fantastic but just two lots of points will do!!

good luck for the race hope you do well!!