Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps 1 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.175 27 2 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:34.441 0.266 28 3 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:34.443 0.268 30 4 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.538 0.363 24 5 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:34.674 0.499 30 6 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:35.148 0.973 34 7 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:35.581 1.406 34 8 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:35.660 1.485 39 9 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:35.872 1.697 20 10 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:35.957 1.782 32 11 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.018 1.843 38 12 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:36.221 2.046 34 13 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.325 2.150 33 14 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:36.325 2.150 39 15 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:36.602 2.427 30 16 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:36.813 2.638 26 17 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:37.415 3.240 19 18 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:38.454 4.279 34 19 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:38.530 4.355 32 20 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:38.786 4.611 13 21 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.061 4.886 23 22 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.158 4.983 29 23 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:41.084 6.909 27 24 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:41.481 7.306 32
2010 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIXPos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps 1 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:33.542 2 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.559 0.017 3 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:33.587 0.045 4 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:33.751 0.209 5 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:33.992 0.450 6 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:34.090 0.548 7 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:34.113 0.571 8 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:34.174 0.632 9 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:34.540 0.998 10 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:34.549 1.007 11 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:34.623 1.081 12 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:34.673 1.131 13 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:34.882 1.340 14 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:34.957 1.415 15 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:35.026 1.484 16 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:35.076 1.534 17 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:35.477 1.935 18 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.404 2.862 19 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:37.299 3.757 20 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:37.369 3.827 21 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:38.161 4.619 22 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:38.783 5.241 23 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:39.868 6.326 24 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:39.895 6.353
Top 3 under .1 Vettel was held a little for S3, Vettel looking fav to get pole. Schumie faster then Rosberg according to some users that means Rosberg should retire.. haha.
Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:51.886 1:48.210 1:49.327 18 2 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:52.560 1:47.417 1:50.673 22 3 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:47.632 1:46.828 1:50.789 19 4 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:49.479 1:47.085 1:50.914 21 5 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:49.664 1:47.346 1:51.001 22 6 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:46.283 1:46.951 1:51.051 19 7 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:50.301 1:48.371 1:51.511 21 8 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:52.239 1:48.400 1:51.717 24 9 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:48.467 1:47.792 1:51.767 21 10 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:49.922 1:48.238 1:52.254 21 11 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:47.952 1:48.760 15 12 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:47.153 1:48.771 14 13 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:48.945 1:49.207 15 14 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:48.655 1:49.464 16 15 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:52.875 1:52.270 16 16 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:52.398 1:52.520 13 17 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:52.211 No time 3 18 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:52.884 6 19 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:53.044 8 20 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:53.050 8 21 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:53.283 7 22 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:56.299 9 23 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:57.269 9 24 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:59.977 4 A wet qualifying session for the Malaysian Grand Prix was always on the cards, but the sporadic nature of the showers at Sepang on Saturday upset many peoples plans. However, whilst Ferrari and McLaren struggled in the rain, Red Bulls Mark Webber made the most of the conditions to take a well-deserved pole position. We take a team-by-team look at how all the runners performed Red Bull Mark Webber, 1m 49.327s, P1 Sebastian Vettel, 1m 50.789s, P3 Webber survived a scare in Q2 when De la Rosa spun in front of him, and gambled on intermediate tyres in Q3 when everyone else was still on full wets. It was a sublime decision, and he deserved a comfortable pole position. Vettel stayed on full wets and was the first to congratulate him. This is a race Red Bull must win in order to get back in the championship chase, and they could hardly be starting it from better positions. Mercedes GP Nico Rosberg, 1m 50.673s, P2 Michael Schumacher, 1m 51.717s, P8 Once again it was Rosberg who rose to the occasion for Mercedes. He admitted that he very nearly came in to change to intermediates, but in the end staying on full wets was good enough for the first front-row start of his Formula One career. Schumacher said he was disappointed with eighth, but had wanted to get a banker lap and then push hard, only to find that his tyres were finished by then. Force India Adrian Sutil, 1m 50.914s, P4 Vitantonio Liuzzi, 1m 52.254s, P10 Sutil really rose to the occasion for Force India and was a worthy fourth. Liuzzi reported a problem with a locking front brake on his final run in Q3. Now the trick for the little team will be to convert strong grid positions into a double points haul in the race. Williams Nico Hulkenberg, 1m 51.001s, P5 Rubens Barrichello, 1m 51.511s, P7 This was Williamss best qualifying performance in a long while, with fifth and seventh places. Hulkenberg said the FW32 felt really good in the wet and that he thought he might have been able to go a little quicker with slightly better fortune. Barrichello rued not switching to intermediates. Renault Robert Kubica, 1m 51.051s, P6 Vitaly Petrov, 1m 48.760s, P11 Kubica liked the feel of the R30 in the wet and easily made it through to Q3. But, thinking the rain would get worse, he pushed really hard on his first run in Q3 and that rooted his tyres. Petrov showed well on intermediates in Q2 but was unlucky to wind up 11th. BMW Sauber Kamui Kobayashi, 1m 51.767s, P9 Pedro de la Rosa, 1m 48.771s, P12 Kobayashi was not surprisingly delighted with a Q3 run and ninth place, even though he spun on his last lap in Q2. De la Rosa looked strong for a while, but said he didnt get the clear lap he needed in Q2. Nevertheless, ninth and 12th on the grid was a boost for the BMW Sauber team after their recent problems. Toro Rosso Sebastien Buemi, 1m 49.207s, P13 Jaime Alguersuari 1m 49.464s, P14 Buemi was annoyed that he didnt make the most of Q2, having looked strong in Q1, and said he stayed on full wets too long only to encounter rain once he had switched to intermediates. Alguersuari ran him close and also thought he might have done better had he switched sooner to inters in the same session. Lotus Heikki Kovalainen, 1m 52.270s, P15 Jarno Trulli, 1m 52.884s, P18 Lotus were delighted to get through to Q2 for the first time, and Heikki Kovalainen said it exceeded both his and the teams expectations. His eventual 15th place on the grid gave the young team their best-ever start. Trulli was disappointed to miss out because he was doing well until a car spun in front of him on his quickest Q1 lap. Virgin Timo Glock, 1m 52.520s, P16 Lucas di Grassi, 1m 59.977s, P24 Like Lotus, Virgin made it through to Q2 courtesy of Glock, and also enjoyed their highest grid place yet. The German was delighted with the way things went, but felt they could have been ahead of Kovalainen if they had pitted earlier in Q2 for inters. Di Grassi suffered another blocked gearbox oil filter in morning practice which required a rear-end stripdown, which could not be completed in time to get him out when Q1 conditions were at their most favourable. McLaren Jenson Button, 1m 52.211s, P17 Lewis Hamilton, 1m 53.050s, P20 McLaren did exactly what Ferrari did, and got their drivers out too late. Button didnt help by spinning off in treacherous Turn Six on his intermediate tyres, and after a spin on the same rubber Hamilton found conditions too bad on full wets to improve his speed. Ferrari Fernando Alonso, 1m 53.044s, P19 Felipe Massa, 1m 53.283s, P21 Ferrari ahead of only HRT? That showed how badly the Italian team fumbled the decision making in Q1. They didnt get their drivers out soon enough after misjudging the weather forecast, and it was as simple as that. HRT Karun Chandhok, 1m 56.299s, P22 Bruno Senna, 1m 57.269s, P23 Chandhok and Senna both experienced wet conditions in the HRT for the first time, and struggled accordingly. Senna went off in Turn Six, which had a river running across the road on the entry. David Tremayne
What's with Channel 10? They show on the info screen that the GP is on from 2140 to 2355, yet here it is 2226 and there is a movie showing instead and damn cricket on 1. WTF?
Fernando Alonso said the Malaysian Grand Prix had been probably the hardest race of his life after the Spaniard battled with a gearbox problem before retiring one lap from the end. "From the start things went wrong," Alonso told Spanish television. "On the formation lap my gearbox broke and I had no clutch during the race, so I had to brake in a weird way. I had to first gear down and then push the throttle hard so it would engage the gear for that corner. Despite the problems that made driving the car a titanic struggle, Alonso fought hard with Jenson Button's McLaren for eighth place before an engine failure ended his race. "It was probably the hardest race of my whole life in terms of driving, because I had to improvise for every corner. But even so we were going to get a few points, which in the end was not possible because of the engine. "But if the gearbox and then the engine are going to break, it's better than in happens when you are ninth than when you are leading and you lose 25 points." The result means that Alonso is now tied for second place with race winner Sebastian Vettel in the drivers' standings, the pair two points behind Felipe Massa. © ESPN EMEA Ltd.
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts 1 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 56 1:33:48.412 3 25 2 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 56 +4.8 secs 1 18 3 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 56 +13.5 secs 2 15 4 11 Robert Kubica Renault 56 +18.5 secs 6 12 5 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 56 +21.0 secs 4 10 6 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 +23.4 secs 20 8 7 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 56 +27.0 secs 21 6 8 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 56 +37.9 secs 17 4 9 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 56 +70.6 secs 14 2 10 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 56 +73.3 secs 5 1 11 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 56 +78.9 secs 13 12 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 55 +1 Lap 7 13 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 54 +2 Laps 19 14 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 53 +3 Laps 24 15 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 53 +3 Laps 22 16 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 52 +4 Laps 23 17 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 51 +5 Laps 18 Ret 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 46 Hydraulics 15 Ret 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 32 Gearbox 11 Ret 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 12 Throttle 10 Ret 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 9 Wheel issue 8 Ret 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 8 Engine 9 Ret 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 2 Spin 16 DNS 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 0 Engine 12 Sebastian Vettel - 1st Once he had the lead into the first corner he made it look easy. The Red Bulls lacked any real competition today and Webber never looked like making a move after the first lap. Mark Webber - 2nd He'll be disappointed when he sees the replay of the first lap because he left a massive gap for Vettel to come through on the inside. He didn't manage to get close enough to even attempt a pass for the rest of the race and cruised home, apparently happy, with second place. Nico Rosberg - 3rd A quiet but well judged race. He didn't have the car to take the challenge to Red Bulls but was comfortably quicker than Kubica in fourth. Robert Kubica - 4th Another drama-free afternoon saw him continue to rack up the points for Renault. In Kubica's hands the car is currently in performance-limbo between the top four and the rest of the field. Adrian Sutil - 5th The only man who could put a hold on Hamilton's charge, he never put a wheel out of line in holding off his good friend in the McLaren. It was an important result that puts him two points ahead of team-mate Liuzzi in the championship. Lewis Hamilton - 6th The most exciting driver to watch in the race was rewarded with eight points and a sixth place finish from 20th. His defensive moves on Petrov raised a few eyebrows, but he did what he had to do to make the most of a good car that was suited to the long straights of Sepang. Felipe Massa - 7th It looked like another humdrum performance from Massa as he held up Alonso in the early stages and failed to supply the same kind of drama as Hamilton. However, he was close to (and made up as many positions as) the McLaren at the end of the race and pulled a good overtaking move on Button to finish seventh. Jenson Button - 8th Another leftfield tyre strategy for Button, but this time it failed to pay off. Starting on soft tyres was a mistake and that put him on the back foot throughout the race as he had to nurse his set of hards for 46 laps. He would have lost another position had it not been for Alonso's gearbox/engine problem. Jaime Alguersuari - 9th Another contender for driver of the day alongside Hamilton. He performed a number of bold overtaking manoeuvres in a car that was far from the best, and gained a well-deserved two points. He said after the race: "I think I learned a bit about the art of fighting with Michael (Schumacher) last weekend in Melbourne." Nico Hulkenberg - 10th He scored his first F1 point on a weekend when the car was not competitive. After the race he admitted that the result had more to do with reliability than speed. Sebastien Buemi - 11th A two-stop strategy and a damaged front wing meant Buemi wasn't able to challenge for points. The wing was clipped on the first lap and he had to go for most of the rest of the race with the problem, working through two sets of soft tyres and a set of hards. Rubens Barrichello - 12th A botched start ruined any chance of a points finish as the car simply didn't have the pace to come through the field. Williams tried running him on a two-stop strategy but it didn't work out and he finished last of the unlapped runners Fernando Alonso kept Felipe Massa in check early on despite a gearbox problem © Sutton Images Fernando Alonso - 13th In his own words: "Probably the hardest race of my whole life in terms of driving." A gearbox malfunction meant he had to adapt his driving style in the steamy heat of Sepang, but amazingly he still managed to keep pace with his team-mate Massa. Eventually it was all in vain after his engine blew up as he was making a passing move on Button. Lucas di Grassi - 14th The fastest of the new drivers, di Grassi had to deal with losing a front wing endplate when Kovalainen made a mess of an overtaking manoeuvre. But with the Lotuses struggling with more serious problems, he cruised home happily ahead of the HRTs. Karun Chandhok - 15th A second solid result for him and HRT as he finished the race ahead of team-mate Bruno Senna. He may have been 3 laps down on Vettel but he was only 17.7 seconds off di Grassi. He even notched up the first overtaking move of his F1 career on the struggling Trulli. Bruno Senna - 16th His first F1 finish, albeit four laps down, was a great result. His race consisted of looking in his mirrors more than anything else. Jarno Trulli - 17th After being hit by Glock early on, he had to cope with a damaged car for the rest of the race and finished five laps down. He was lapped by race leader Vettel under yellow flags but the stewards took no action on account of how badly the Lotus was handling. Heikki Kovalainen - 18th Problems with his left tyre after banging wheels with di Grassi meant his team took him into the garage to assess the damage. When it was clear the car was safe, he rejoined the race but finished 10 laps down. Vitaly Petrov - DNF (Gearbox -28 laps) A suspected gearbox problem brought his race to a premature end. During his time on track he came wheel-to-wheel with Hamilton in a thrilling battle for position. When he retired he was running 13th, but that was in part due to the car's worsening performance. Tonio Liuzzi - DNF (Throttle - 22 laps) He had been fighting with Hulkenberg for sixth place when he finally dropped out. The car was quick, his team-mate Sutil proved that, but without any power he had to pull off the track and into retirement Michael Schumacher - DNF (Wheel-nut - 9 laps Hugely disappointing for Schumacher after he had rallied up to sixth place at the start. He would have been in position for a great battle with Kubica and Sutil but a loose left wheel saw his race come to a safe but slow end. Kamui Kobayashi - DNF (Engine - 8 laps) A problem with the pneumatic system on his Ferrari engine brought his race to an end. He had been running in 11th when the car lost power coming out of turn one. Timo Glock - DNF (Stalled - 2 laps) He locked his rear wheels attempting to overtake Trulli, and as he bounced off the Lotus while travelling backwards, his anti-stall system didn't kick in. It will be frustrating as his team-mate finished the race. Pedro de la Rosa - DNS (Engine - 0 laps) A similar problem to Kobayashi's occurred on his Sauber even before he made the grid for the start of the race. The engine cut at the end of the pit lane, and despite the team getting the car going again, it only lasted three more corners before giving up completely. Laurence Edmondson is an assistant editor on ESPNF1 © ESPN EMEA Ltd.
Yeh,Alonso did a pretty good job of not throwing in the towel where others would have though.You could see him fighting with the g/box in cockpit cam.
The post race interview was troubling it sounded like a "no2" driver response. He was told not to fight for corner 1.
NO, "They" were told. Vettel caught Mark napping. There was half a gap and Vettel went for it. Any other driver would have squeezed him out He only had to keep drifting right and he would have got to turn 1 in P1. Obviously its allways easy looking at it from a Plasma point of view. Hopefully he learns from his mistake.
FP3 Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps 1 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:35.323 2 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.564 0.241 3 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:35.691 0.368 4 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.747 0.424 5 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:35.857 0.534 6 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:35.913 0.590 7 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:36.262 0.939 8 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:36.343 1.020 9 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:36.416 1.093 10 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:36.634 1.311 11 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:36.879 1.556 12 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:37.031 1.708 13 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:37.192 1.869 14 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:37.240 1.917 15 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:37.339 2.016 16 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:37.585 2.262 17 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:37.664 2.341 18 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:37.784 2.461 19 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.579 4.256 20 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:39.616 4.293 21 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:39.749 4.426 22 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:39.776 4.453 23 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:40.316 4.993 24 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:41.141 5.818
