Row 1 | 1. Mark Webber 1’45.778 Red Bull-Renault | |
2. Lewis Hamilton 1’45.863 McLaren-Mercedes | ||
Row 2 | 3. Robert Kubica 1’46.100 Renault | |
4. Sebastian Vettel 1’46.127 Red Bull-Renault | ||
Row 3 | 5. Jenson Button 1’46.206 McLaren-Mercedes | |
6. Felipe Massa 1’46.314 Ferrari | ||
Row 4 | 7. Rubens Barrichello 1’46.602 Williams-Cosworth | |
8. Adrian Sutil 1’46.659 Force India-Mercedes | ||
Row 5 | 9. Nico Hulkenberg 1’47.053 Williams-Cosworth | |
10. Fernando Alonso 1’47.441 Ferrari | ||
Row 6 | 11. Jaime Alguersuari 1’48.267 Toro Rosso-Ferrari | |
12. Vitantonio Liuzzi 1’48.680 Force India-Mercedes | ||
Row 7 | 13. Heikki Kovalainen 1’50.980 Lotus-Cosworth | |
14. Nico Rosberg* 1’47.885 Mercedes | ||
Row 8 | 15. Jarno Trulli 2’01.491 Lotus-Cosworth | |
16. Sebastien Buemi** 1’49.209 Toro Rosso-Ferrari | ||
Row 9 | 17. Kamui Kobayashi 2’02.284 Sauber-Ferrari | |
18. Bruno Senna 2’03.612 HRT-Cosworth | ||
Row 10 | 19. Sakon Yamamoto 2’03.941 HRT-Cosworth | |
20. Timo Glock*** 1’52.049 Virgin-Cosworth | ||
Row 11 | 21. Michael Schumacher**** 1’47.874 Mercedes | |
22. Lucas di Grassi 2’18.154 Virgin-Cosworth | ||
Row 12 | 23. Vitaly Petrov Renault | |
24. Pedro de la Rosa***** 2’05.294 Sauber-Ferrari |
*Five-place penalty for a gearbox change
**Three-place penalty for impeding Nico Rosberg
***Five-place penalty for impeding Sakon Yamamoto
****Ten-place penalty for illegitimately impeding a rival driver during the Hungarian Grand Prix.
*****Five-place penalty for gearbox change
2010 Belgian Grand Prix
Calum
28th August 2010, 14:34
So Pole will be on the side closest to the pit lane?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
28th August 2010, 14:50
I don’t believe they’ve moved it since last year, yes.
TommyB (@tommyb89)
28th August 2010, 15:18
Wonder if Lewis and Seb will ‘do a Kimi’ and just run way out wide on the first lap.
sato113
28th August 2010, 18:10
they’re tightening up on that this year i think
US_Peter
28th August 2010, 19:59
That’s unusual. Doesn’t that put the odd numbered drivers off the racing line into La Source?
sato113 (@sato113)
28th August 2010, 23:20
no, because the racing line follows mostly the right hand side where the grid slots are then it veers gently to the left for the right handed la source.
if you look on an onboard shot, you;ll see the racing line goes just inbetween P1 and P2 grid slots.
Another Calum
28th August 2010, 14:38
Yes. i think webber will take the first corner easy and hamilton will have to hold off kubica and vettel to get a nice run into Eau rouge.
rfs
28th August 2010, 14:41
And then Hamilton will take Webber at Les Combes with his superior straight-line speed. :)
bosyber
28th August 2010, 14:44
I am sure that is the plan at McLaren, yes.
Austin
28th August 2010, 17:14
Nah, I think Hamilton will be past Webber before the La Source hairpin and a Mclaren 1-2 by the time they get to Les Combes
Ads21 (@ads21)
28th August 2010, 14:51
Is this the best starting place for Lotus? Or did they do better in Malaysia?
Steph (@)
28th August 2010, 15:50
It’s their best. Heikki was p15 for Mal
US_Peter
28th August 2010, 20:01
In any case it’s pretty impressive. If it’s an unpredictable race tomorrow and Heikki is smart about his strategy he could get a point and clinch up 10th in the constructor’s championship pretty securely for Lotus.
Jarred Walmsley
28th August 2010, 21:01
Indeed, this is Lotus’ big opportunity to secure that all important 10th place, all we need is for a couple of Retirements to go Hekki’s way.
Jake
28th August 2010, 15:04
What a final lap from Hamilton! managed to improve when everybody else was losing about half a second. If there are similar conditions tomorrow, from what I’ve seen this weekend I think Lewis could run away with it. In fact I’m going for a Lewis win by at least half a minute. You heard it here first! (oh…but not if it’s fully dry ;])
disjunto
28th August 2010, 15:07
Button also managed to find about a second in his final attempt, mclaren have a strong chance of getting another 1-2
Calum
28th August 2010, 15:09
Thing is, there could be a mega crash is half the field are attempting to go at 160mph one handed round a chicane!!
sato113
28th August 2010, 15:33
huh? they’re might go one-handed around eau rogue tho… not around la source.
Joe Szpara
28th August 2010, 15:15
Which side is the dirty side here? And does it make much difference?
bosyber
28th August 2010, 15:31
If there is more raining here until the race Joe, I don’t think there is all that much clean side left.
bosyber
28th August 2010, 15:21
Glock impeding Yamamoto? That sounds really unlikely, doesn’t it! But I guess Q1 was a bit messy.
Deurmat
28th August 2010, 15:35
What is the difference between the mclaren and red bull straight line speed at the speed trap @ Spa???
sato113
28th August 2010, 15:42
unfortunatley the speed trap is at the top of eau rogue, not at the end of the straight. so it’s haed to know.
maclauren
28th August 2010, 15:49
there are also speed traps at the end of each sector, in this case it is just before the braking point at Les Combes, so it’s possible to see who has the best straight line speed through Kemmel. this data is available at the official live timing [but not the website version].
bosyber
28th August 2010, 15:52
from formula1.com:
Driver TimeOfDay speed (km/h)
Felipe Massa 14:37:37 312.9
Sebastian Vettel 14:47:58 307.8
Jenson Button 14:45:51 307.4
Lewis Hamilton 14:46:59 307.3
Robert Kubica 14:47:45 307.0
Mark Webber 14:47:54 306.2
Fernando Alonso 15:07:10 303.5
… so Mark has two slightly faster guys behind him, and Vettel should worry about Massa, who might try to get ahead of both Vettel and Button
So it seems Webber has more downforce than Vettel and the McLarens are pretty similar, and Kubica is about the same as those two.
Note that Massa did that at the very end of Q1, others halfway Q2, and Alonso set his at the start of Q3. Seems he does have a different setup.
bosyber
28th August 2010, 16:01
… if you look at best sector times, you can see that Alonso is doing something very different than Massa who is 3rd fastest in S1 and S3 behind the McLarens, while Alonso is nowhere (10th, 11th fastest). Vettel and Webber are 3-4 tenth of a second down in these sectors.
In S2 Alonso was a tenth faster, but both were almost a second behind Red Bull (McLaren, Williams and Kubica are about half a second down there).
maclauren
28th August 2010, 16:29
of course these are speed trap speeds, at the top of Eau Rouge. the speeds at the end of the Kemmel speeds are:
1 14 A. SUTIL 323.7
2 23 K. KOBAYASHI 321.9
3 15 V. LIUZZI 321.6
4 22 P. DE LA ROSA 320.8
5 1 J. BUTTON 320.0
6 20 S. YAMAMOTO 319.9
7 2 L. HAMILTON 318.6
8 7 F. MASSA 318.3
9 11 R. KUBICA 316.2
10 8 F. ALONSO 316.0
11 19 H. KOVALAINEN 315.9
12 21 B. SENNA 315.8
13 18 J. TRULLI 315.6
14 5 S. VETTEL 315.6
15 6 M. WEBBER 315.1
US_Peter
28th August 2010, 20:04
With that top speed and starting so far back, I’m hoping for some decisive overtaking moves from Kobayashi early on.
Mike
28th August 2010, 16:14
What a grid! this is going to be a smasher!
We have Webber the championship leader on top, but with what I assume to be the faster Hamilton in second, Kubica did incredibly well to take third, we have Alonso in tenth and I doubt he will want to stay there, The Williams duo and Sutil are in there to mix up the order and we have Schumacher who will have to push through the filed on the track, where he actually looks comfortable with the car.
Oh, And both Kovy and Glock
(before the penalty) got into Q2…
I love Spa…
Icarus
28th August 2010, 17:13
Isn’t Rosberg starting 16th, he was 12th so if we count out Schumacher who also got penalised – 11th +5 places = 16th? Glock is behind him anyway so his penalty doesn’t matter.
Austin
28th August 2010, 17:25
Alguersuari gets 11th, his best start. Schumacher and Rosberg were penalised before qualifying started so the 13th place moves up to 11th.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
28th August 2010, 18:59
Penalties are applied in the order they were declared, which was Schumacher-Rosberg-Glock-Buemi. Which by my reckoning means Rosberg has actually only lost two places. Much like what happened with Barrichello at Spa last year.
sato113 (@sato113)
28th August 2010, 23:23
and Suzuka last year more importantly!
Damon
28th August 2010, 17:34
If everybody is so concerned about drivers using the run off area at turn 1 to gain an advantage why don’t the put back the barrier there that ran down the side of the track. I’ve been watching clips from 04 on YouTube and to me it seems the perfect answer
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
28th August 2010, 19:04
To prevent a repeat of the 1998 pile-up, I guess.
sato113
28th August 2010, 19:29
or put grass there instead. or gravel…
Damon
28th August 2010, 18:49
Putting the barrier back would end the debate full stop, I hope they don’t punish somebody for going wide due to mistake though
Damon
28th August 2010, 20:09
The barrier was stll there in 2004 I don’t know when they removed it. If you watch the accident it doesn’t happen straight after the hairpin where most people go wide and use the run off are, the accident happened further down the hill I think.
wasiF1 (@wasif1)
29th August 2010, 5:06
This grid slot promises some overtaking today be that be a wet or dry race.