Spanish Grand Prix – Saturday qualifying

May 7, 2005 by
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[Don't forget to read yesterday's preamble/updates/schedule]

R.Schumacher was fastest in free practice this morning (1:14.2) with the two McLarens 2nd and 3rd.

First out: Montoya in his rebuilt McLaren – sector 1 = 22.6; S2=52.7; S3=lap=1:15.902 = provisional pole (pP1) inevitably.
Fisichella – S1=22.6; S2=52.6; S3=1:15.601 = pP1 by 0.301s
Friesacher – S1=28.8; S2=55.8; S3=1:20.306 = pP3
Raikkonen – S1=22.6; S2=52.4; S3=1:14.819 = pP1 by 0.782s
Barrichello – S1=22.5; S2=52.8; S3=1:15.746 = pP3

Batch 2 is led out by Albers – S1=23.5; (fighting with his Minardi through Turn 9) S2=55.2; S3=1:9.563 = pP5
Monteiro – 23.; 55.1; 1:19.040 = pP5
Karthikeyan (TM’s teammate) – 23.2; 54.8; 1:18.557 = pP5
Coulthard – 22.5; 52.7; 1:15.795 = pP4
Massa – 22.7; 53.0; 1:15.863 = pP5

R.Schumacher starts off Batch 3 – 22.5; 52.2; 1:14.870 = pP2 by 0.051 – he was looking good to take pP1
Liuzzi – 22.7; 52.9; 1:16.288 = pP8 – he lost a lot of time in S2
Webber – 22.3; 52.3; 1:115.042 = pP3, despite being well up in S1+S2
Heidfeld – 22.4; 52.3; 1:15.038 = pP3
Trulli – 22.4; 52.3; 1:14.795 = pP1 by 0.024s

The final batch is just 3 cars (because the 2 BARs are absent):
Villeneuve – 23.0; 53.7; 1:16.794 = pP12 – that’s pretty poor
M.Schumacher – 22.4; 52.5; 1:15.398 = pP6
Alonso – 22.4; 52.1; 1:14.811 = pP2 by 0.016s

Provisional grid:

  1. J.Trulli (Toyota) 1:14.795
  2. F.Alonso (Renault)
  3. K.Raikkonen (McLaren)
  4. R.Schumacher (Toyota)
  5. *N.Heidfeld (Williams)
  6. *M.Webber (Williams)
  7. M.Schumacher (Ferrari)
  8. G.Fisichella (Renault)
  9. *R.Barrichello (Ferrari)
  10. D.Coulthard (Red Bull)
  11. F.Massa (Sauber)
  12. J.Montoya (McLaren)
  13. V.Liuzzi (Red Bull)
  14. J.Villeneuve (Sauber)
  15. N.Karthikeyan (Jordan)
  16. T.Monteiro (Jordan)
  17. C.Albers (Minardi)
  18. P.Friesacher (Minardi)

*Don’t forget the penalties: both Williams drivers changed engines, so 10-place penalties await both Webber and Heidfeld. Barrichello’s car also needed a new engine, so he’ll be 10 grid places too.

[Schedules: 2005 calendar, race weekend]

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