German Grand Prix – Qualifying

July 23, 2005 by
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Air temperature 21°C; track temp 34°C; humidity 53%

Doornbos (first time out in a Minardi): Sector 1 = 17.0; S2=53.9; 1:18.313 = provisional pole, of course
Karthikeyan: barely keeping it on track! S1=17.6; S2=55.7; aborts the lap without a time
Albers: S1=17.0; S2=53.2; 1:17.519 for pP1 … and then runs wide
Monteiro: S1=17.3; S2=54.1; 1:18.6 = pP3
Sato: S1=16.4; S2=52.2; 1:15.501 = pP1

Klien: S1=16.7; S2=52.2; 1:15.635 = pP2
Villeneuve: S1=16.5; S2=52.4; 1:16.012 = pP3
Coulthard: S1=16.6; S2=52.2; 1:15.679 = pP3
Heidfeld: S1=16.6; S2=52.1; 1:15.403 = pP1
Webber: S1=16.5; S2=52.1; 1:15.070 = pP1

Massa: S1=16.9; S2=52.5; 1:16.009 = pP6
Trulli: S1=16.5; S2=52.1; 1:15.532 = pP4
R.Schumacher: S1=16.7; S2=52.3; 1:15.689 = pP7
Barrichello: S1=16.7; S2=52.5; 1:16.230 = pP10, 1.16s off the pole time!
M.Schumacher: S1=16.6; S2=52.0; 1:15.006 = pP1 by 0.064s – he’s running very light

Button: S1=16.5; S2=51.7; 1:14.759 = pP1 by 0.247s
Fisichella: S1=16.4; S2=51.8; 1:14.9 = pP2
Raikkonen: S1=16.3; S2=51.3; 1:14.320 = pP1 by 0.439s
Alonso: S1=16.7; S2=51.7; 1:14.904 = pP3
Montoya: S1=16.3; S2=51.4; …slides off on the last corner, through the kitty litter and into the tyre wall! Ouch! He was pushing hard to take pole from his teammate, and instead wipes out. Back of the grid for JM.

Provisional Grid:

  1. K.Raikkonen (McLaren)
  2. J.Button (BAR)
  3. F.Alonso (Renault)
  4. G.Fisichella (Renault)
  5. M.Schumacher (Ferrari)
  6. M.Webber (Williams)
  7. N.Heidfeld (Williams)
  8. T.Sato (BAR)
  9. J.Trulli (Toyota)
  10. C.Klien (Red Bull)
  11. D.Coulthard (Red Bull)
  12. R.Schumacher (Toyota)
  13. F.Massa (Sauber)
  14. J.Villeneuve (Sauber)
  15. R.Barrichello (Ferrari)
  16. C.Albers (Minardi)
  17. R.Doornbos (Minardi)
  18. T.Monteiro (Jordan)
  19. J.Montoya (McLaren) – no time
  20. N.Karthikeyan (Jordan) – no time

Interviews:
KR: oversteer in a few corners
JB: bit too much front-end; first time he’s qualified inside the top 12 (at Hockenheim)
FA: lost time in Turn 1 and T2; strategy-wise we’re in really good shape
KR: not happy with my qualifying lap

[Weekend schedule] [F1 calendar, 2005]

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