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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  1. Button in the lead.

  2. Vettel 2nd, Weber 3rd and Scumacher in a disappointing 4th

  3. Takes it off the track.

  4. If anything they’re farther behind than before.

  5. if it starts to pour rain during the awards ceremony

  6. Button

    Vettel

    Webber

    Schumacher

    Petrov

    Massa

    Kobayashi

    Alguersuari

    Barrichello

    Buemi

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