Spanish GP 2012 - Barcelona

[Nando]

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Button
4. Webber
5. Raikkonen
6. Grosjean
7. Alonso
8. Rosberg
9. Sauber
10. Sauber

Top 8 within half a second to 7 tenths.

[raymondu999]

Hamilton is in the naughty boy room (aka stewards' office)

[zyphro]

What what do ya know. Merc GP pace looks good:

http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/f1 ... -times.pdf

[raymondu999]

Update: no further action on Hamilton

[Nando]

Hamilton is in the naughty boy room (aka stewards' office)

For what this time? Using the throttle?

[thelimey]

I don't know if its the same incident but according to the BBC Schumacher & Hamilton were called to the stewards over Schumacher rejoining the track & balking Hamilton (who was on his hot lap) in FP3. Some confusion over who was supposedly being investigated as some outlets saying it was Hamilton for balking Schumacher but Schumacher apparently has recieved a reprimand.

[Sjamaan]

Well, accordingly to Horner Webber has a cold, so hes not 100% for this session.

[myurr]

Vettel only manages 0.03 seconds quicker than Hamilton despite being on the quicker tyre!!

Edit: he is going quicker though.

[JMN]

Seriously, sometimes McLaren strategist are just headless. Why would you burn a second set of tires in Q1 when you're well ahead of the pack going allmost as fast on the harder tyre as the fastest on the soft.

edit: yep, time set on the harder tyre would've been sufficient.

[myurr]

Crickey Vettel only managed to go a tenth quicker on that second lap. He has no one lap pace at the moment. Webber a little quicker but still only 8th.

[myurr]

Hamilton is seriously quick at the moment. 0.7 clear of the field.

[myurr]

Annoyingly Hamilton was quick enough on his first lap to not need to burn that set of softs. I'm sure it won't make much difference in the overall scheme of things though.

[zgred]

[SeijaKessen]

The discrepancy between Maldonado and Senna is quite glaring.

[SeijaKessen]

I don't think Bruno has any decent qualifying pace. Seems to be unable to pull more out of the car. It'd be interesting to see Bottas and Maldonado driving.