Spanish GP 2012 - Barcelona

[SeijaKessen]

5th to 11th covered by 0.1 seconds. That is just crazy tight. Not sure where Maldonado found that lap from, but it should be between him and Hamilton in the pole shootout as Lewis will definitely have a bit more in hand when they turn all the dials up.

I still am scratching my head over Maldonado's lap...he annihilated Hamilton's time which I was not expecting from anyone out there.

[myurr]

Hamilton was allegedly on used tyres, I'd expect Maldonado was on new. So that probably explains the gap, but still was a stonking lap!

Edit: track will still be rubbering in as well.

[raymondu999]

Maldonado is 3 tenths quicker?! What on earth is going on?!

[SeijaKessen]

Hamilton was allegedly on used tyres, I'd expect Maldonado was on new. So that probably explains the gap, but still was a stonking lap!

Edit: track will still be rubbering in as well.

Good point...but he knocked 2.2 seconds off his time from Q1 which was unreal.

[SeijaKessen]

Er dumb typo 1.2

[JMN]

An now the egg-shell tyres has completely ruined qualifying.

As Brundle just said: "We're not getting points for qualifying, but maybe we should"

[SeijaKessen]

An now the egg-shell tyres has completely ruined qualifying.

They need to have tires only used for qualifying...would be so much better if these guys could just drive flat out without worrying about tire wear for the race.

[myurr]

Interesting, Maldonado has a laser ride height monitor on the car, you could see the red dot on the ground as he pulled out of the garage. I thought they only tended to use those in testing?

[myurr]

What a weird session, and what a grid!!

[zgred]

[SeijaKessen]

Holy crap Hamilton!!!!

[muz]

Did he break the car?

[myurr]

Eh oh, Hamilton's stopped on track. Hope it's just short of fuel so they told him to stop rather than there being a problem. He really deserves a clear weekend rather than being let down by the team / car again.

[donskar]

Wonderful result for Maldonado

[zgred]