Ok, on the Irony Board (like that? I just made it up) this doesn’t sir pass (look, another punny) Colin Powell, Village Liar defending his UN/WMD speech, but Schumacher didn’t even bother to go out in Q3 so he could save tires.
Or you could call it the courage of his convictions.
Does it sound early to you? I actually kind of hate the European starts more because I have to get up instead of going to bed late and it interrupts my nightmares about people behaving in un-professional manners.
Like you’ve never had one.
Any who today’s grid is full of surprises and it’s likely to end the same way because Circuit de Catalunya is not renowned for passing opportunity which is good for Lewis except for Team McLaren’s history of abject failure when in positions of advantage.
Remind you of anybody?
Oh man, more coffee- let’s bury the lede not praise it. Hamilton starts from the back because of a fueling violation.
Formula One: Hamilton stripped of pole for Spanish Grand Prix
Daily Times, A New Voice For A New Pakistan
Sunday, May 13, 2012
“A team member had put an insufficient quantity of fuel into the car thereby resulting in the car having to be stopped on the circuit in order to be able to provide the required amount for sampling purposes,” a statement said. “As the amount of fuel put into the car is under the complete control of the competitor the stewards cannot accept this as a case of force majeure. “The stewards determined this is a breach of article 6.6.2 of the FIA Formula One technical regulations and the competitor is accordingly excluded from the results of the qualifying session,” the FIA statement read. “The competitor is however allowed to start the race from the back of the grid.” No driver has won in 21 years of the Spanish Grand Prix being held in Barcelona from lower than third place on the grid. A McLaren spokesman said the team accepted “the stewards did not agree with our interpretation of force majeure. Our aim is now to maximise the points we can score tomorrow.”
Scrambled tables below-
Starting Grid
| Grid | Driver | Team | Q-Time | Q-Laps |
| 1 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Renault | 01:22.3 | 14 |
| 2 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 01:22.3 | 15 |
| 3 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 01:22.4 | 14 |
| 4 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus-Renault | 01:22.5 | 13 |
| 5 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | 01:22.5 | 14 |
| 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 01:23.0 | 17 |
| 7 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 01:22.9* | 14 |
| 8 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 01:22.9* | 15 |
| 9 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 01:22.9* | 14 |
| 10 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 01:22.9 | 13 |
| 11 | Mark Webber | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 01:23.0 | 8 |
| 12 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 01:23.1 | 14 |
| 13 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 01:23.2 | 13 |
| 14 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Ferrari | 01:23.3 | 11 |
| 15 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR-Ferrari | 01:23.4 | 11 |
| 16 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 01:23.4 | 12 |
| 17 | Bruno Senna | Williams-Renault | 01:25.0 | 8 |
| 18 | Vitaly Petrov | Caterham-Renault | 01:25.3 | 8 |
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Caterham-Renault | 01:25.5 | 8 |
| 20 | Charles Pic | Marussia-Cosworth | 01:26.6 | 8 |
| 21 | Timo Glock | Marussia-Cosworth | 01:27.0 | 8 |
| 22 | Pedro de la Rosa | HRT-Cosworth | 01:27.6 | 6 |
| 23 | Narain Karthikeyan | HRT-Cosworth | 01:31.1 | 4 |
| 24 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 01:21.7 | 17 |
* == No Laps during Q3 to preserve tires.
Driver Standings
| Rank | Driver | Team | Points |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 53 |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 49 |
| 3 | Mark Webber | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 48 |
| 4 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Mercedes | 43 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 43 |
| 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 35 |
| 7 | Kimi Raikkonen | Lotus-Renault | 34 |
| 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Renault | 23 |
| 9 | Sergio Perez | Sauber-Ferrari | 22 |
| 10 | Paul di Resta | Force India-Mercedes | 15 |
| 11 | Bruno Senna | Williams-Renault | 14 |
| 12 | Kamui Kobayashi | Sauber-Ferrari | 9 |
| 13 | Jean-Eric Vergne | STR-Ferrari | 4 |
| 14 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams-Renault | 4 |
| 15 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR-Ferrari | 2 |
| 16 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 2 |
| 17 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 2 |
| 18 | Michael Schumacher | Mercedes | 2 |
Constructor Standings
| Rank | Team | Points |
| 1 | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 101 |
| 2 | McLaren-Mercedes | 92 |
| 3 | Lotus-Renault | 57 |
| 4 | Ferrari | 45 |
| 5 | Mercedes | 37 |
| 6 | Sauber-Ferrari | 31 |
| 7 | Williams-Renault | 18 |
| 8 | Force India-Mercedes | 17 |
| 9 | STR-Ferrari | 6 |
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Raikkonen
Everyone on Softs.
McLaren Sucks!
Like duh…
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Alonso
Maldonado
Raikkonen
Rosberg
Grosjean
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Clockwise track.
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Bottom line? Softs suck, only good for a lap or two.
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Schumacher also.
Bang!
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McLaren sucks.
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A good one for once.
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Mechanical failure.
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Mechanical failure.
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Alonso.
Stories of the day.
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Go figure.
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wasted.