Jun 12 2011

F1: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

As they never quite got tired of pointing out during all 24 Hours of Le Mans, Sports Cars race harder, faster, and longer in a single day than Formula One does in a whole season.

Pedro de la Rosa gets a ride with Sauber today, coming from the McLaren reserves to replace Sergio Perez who is not yet recovered from his Monaco concussion.  bmaz reports on the Bahrain decision I covered Friday.

Scuderia Marlboro UPC did a little better in qualifying than I expected, but it doesn’t mean much for anyone as they are forcasting a 60% chance of rain.  To make things even more (ahem) interesting they’ve all dialed down the downforce because of the long straights and it’s not the kind of thing you’re allowed to adjust.  Virgin will start it’s second car despite missing the 107% cut off.

Hopefully during the boring parts I’ll find a source for the Le Mans results, it was actually much closer than I predicted, a mere 13 seconds after 24 hours that Audi won over Peugeot with their single remaining car.

Pretty tables below.

Starting Grid

Grid Driver Team Q-Time Q-Laps
1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 01:13.0 17
2 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:13.2 19
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:13.2 20
4 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 01:13.4 22
5 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:13.6 18
6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 01:13.8 14
7 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:13.8 20
8 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 01:13.9 4
9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 01:14.1 27
10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:14.1 25
11 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 01:14.8 19
12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 01:15.0 20
13 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 01:15.3 21
14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 001:15.3 21
15 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 01:15.3 18
16 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 01:15.4 20
17 Pedro de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 01:15.6 21
18 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 01:16.3 10
19 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 01:16.7 12
20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 01:16.8 10
21 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 01:18.4 10
22 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:18.5 12
23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 01:18.6 11
24 Jerome d’Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 01:19.4 13

Driver Standings

Rank Driver Team Points
1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 143
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 85
3 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 79
4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 76
5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 69
6 Nick Heidfeld Renault 29
7 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 26
8 Felipe Massa Ferrari 24
9 Vitaly Petrov Renault 21
10 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 19
11 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 14
12 Adrian Suti Force India-Mercedes 8
13 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 7
14 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 2
15 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 2
16 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 2

Constructor Standings

Rank Team Points
1 RBR-Renault 222
2 McLaren-Mercedes 161
3 Ferrari 93
4 Renault 50
5 Mercedes 40
6 Sauber-Ferrari 21
7 Force India-Mercedes 10
8 STR-Ferrari 77
9 Williams-Cosworth 2
10 Lotus-Renault 0
11 Virgin-Cosworth 0
12 HRT-Cosworth 0

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  2. Not expected to let up all race.

  3. you want to hate on the Fox coverage since they’re simply repeating all the stuff we already know, but it is the first race on the big network and they have to catch up the rubes.

  5. And doesn’t end up parking.

  8. Just disgusting.

  9. Hamilton out.

  11. The only one so far.

    A bad day for McLaren fans.

  12. Back racing.

  13. It just gets worse and worse for McLaren.

    Oh, and it’s raining harder so he’ll have to pit again for wets.

  14. Vettel

    Alonso

    Massa

    Rosberg

    Schumacher

    Kobayashi

    Heidfeld

    Petrov

    Webber

    di Resta

  15. Button has good times despite the rain so all the lemmings will switch.

  16. Safety car out.

  17. exciting to watch, but a pain in the ass to report.

  18. Webber in now.

  19. Vettel

    Kobayashi

    Massa

    Heidfeld

    Petrov

    di Resta

    Webber

    Alonso

    de la Rosa

    Button

  21. Cars off the track.  If time expires, half points.

    Probably the best result McLaren can hope for.

    They can work on the cars.

  22. Nope, no climate change here

  23. and preparations are being made to restart the race.

    There are 45 laps remaining.  

  24. Everyone is on wet tires. The track is wet and the standing water is gone.

  25. Yippie!

  27. Except Vettel.

  28. Button cuts one.

    Fugly.  Safety car out again.

  31. Vettel

    Kobayashi

    Massa

    Heidfeld

    di Resta

    Webber

    Schumacher

    Petrov

    Rosberg

    Sutil

  33. Heidfeld in for slicks.

    Sutil does a drive through.

  34. The track is drying out, so expect pit stops to change tires. Race control has allowed the Drag Reduction System (DRS) to be used. You can see an opening and closing of the rear flap. It allow the driver to take a shot at a pass. The driver you are trying to over take cannot use the DRS

  35. A little early.

  36. Schumacher in second. Everyone pits for dry tires. Sutil is out

  38. Massa has damage to the front of the car.

  39. Vettel pits.

  40. they have to stay off the wet part of the track for a couple of laps to warm up the tires, otherwise it’s WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE….slide all over

  41. Safety car.

  42. debris on the road

  43. Vettel, Schumacher and Webber  

  44. Vettel

    Schumacher

    Webber

    Button

    Kobayashi

    Petrov

    Barrichello

    Alguersuari

    Rosberg

    Maldonado

  45. not close enough to Vettel to use the DRS to take the lead

  46. 29 laps back Button was dead last now in 2nd

  47. Unfortunately for McLaren, Webber in 3rd.

  48. Button needs to get close to Vettel on a straight away to use the DRS and take the lead

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