Row 1 | 1. Lewis Hamilton 1’29.398 Mercedes | |
2. Sebastian Vettel 1’29.501 Red Bull | ||
Row 2 | 3. Mark Webber 1’29.608 Red Bull | |
4. Kimi Raikkonen 1’29.892 Lotus | ||
Row 3 | 5. Romain Grosjean 1’29.959 Lotus | |
6. Daniel Ricciardo 1’30.528 Toro Rosso | ||
Row 4 | 7. Felipe Massa 1’31.126 Ferrari | |
8. Fernando Alonso 1’31.209 Ferrari | ||
Row 5 | 9. Jenson Button No time McLaren | |
10. Nico Hulkenberg No time Sauber | ||
Row 6 | 11. Nico Rosberg 1’30.326 Mercedes | |
12. Paul di Resta 1’30.697 Force India | ||
Row 7 | 13. Sergio Perez 1’30.933 McLaren | |
14. Esteban Gutierrez 1’31.01 Sauber | ||
Row 8 | 15. Adrian Sutil 1’31.0101 Force India | |
16. Jean-Eric Vergne 1’31.104 Toro Rosso | ||
Row 9 | 17. Valtteri Bottas 1’31.693 Williams | |
18. Pastor Maldonado 1’31.707 Williams | ||
Row 10 | 19. Jules Bianchi 1’33.063 Marussia | |
20. Giedo van der Garde 1’33.734 Caterham | ||
Row 11 | 21. Max Chilton 1’34.098 Marussia | |
22. Charles Pic* 1’32.937 Caterham |
*Five-place penalty for gearbox change.
2013 German Grand Prix
Image © Daimler/Hoch Zwei
OmarR-Pepper (@)
6th July 2013, 14:07
what happened to ROS?
Traverse (@)
6th July 2013, 14:09
He was looking at himself in the mirror and completely forgot to make Q3.
Eggry (@eggry)
6th July 2013, 14:16
@hellotraverse oh Britney :D
Aditya (@adityafakhri)
6th July 2013, 14:10
the team just think that his team is good enough to make it through Q3 but JB out of nowhere pulling string together and knock ROS out.
Younger Hamii (@younger-hamii)
6th July 2013, 14:23
Track getting better towards the end of Q2 caught him and Mercedes out. Rosberg was one who set his best time fairly early.
Traverse (@)
6th July 2013, 14:07
Epic lap from Ham! Now, finish the job tomorrow and make a charge for the WDC. Good to see my two favs on the front row. :)
AlokIn (@)
6th July 2013, 14:10
+1
Aditya (@adityafakhri)
6th July 2013, 14:08
I’ll say this: Lotus for the win.
legacy F1 (@jason12joy)
6th July 2013, 14:15
agree
Alexandre Freitas (@piquet-brasil-sc)
6th July 2013, 16:37
Me 2
carbon_fibre (@carbon_fibre)
6th July 2013, 14:10
Massive risk for Ferrari. It could either lead to a massive success or a fail. The fact that they had pace for P4 makes this decision even stranger.
mixwell (@mixwell)
6th July 2013, 14:12
“we were unlucky to have made the wrong call using primes for the qualifying. . . “
puneeth Bharath (@puneethvb)
6th July 2013, 14:16
@mixwell
a little too early to say that the decision will backfire… we shall see tomorrow…
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 14:21
@mixwell having crystal ball ye?
wsrgo (@wsrgo)
6th July 2013, 14:13
Yeah, even im surprised….
@HoHum (@hohum)
6th July 2013, 14:39
If Massa starts like he did last week he could be 3rd or 2nd by turn 1 and 1st on laps 5, 6 or 7 depending on how fast the softs go off.
puneeth Bharath (@puneethvb)
6th July 2013, 14:11
Strange to see both ferraris opting to set the Q3 lap time on mediums.. Hope it turns out to be a great decision….
svarun (@svarun)
6th July 2013, 14:12
What on earth were Ferrari upto?
As far as I remember Ferrari had topped q2 and q3.
And then going onto mediums in q3.
BIZZAREEEEE!!!
Eggry (@eggry)
6th July 2013, 14:15
@svarun Q2 record was not real picture because of moving cloud and wind direction. They had no chance for the pole even though I doubt their choice would work.
svarun (@svarun)
6th July 2013, 14:23
I was also not expecting a pole for sure from Ferrari but they could be on the second row.
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 14:33
@eggry @svarun I feel that since all those ahead of both Ferraris would start on used softs for their race (including formation laps), they would end up doing ‘more’ laps on softs compared to those starting on softs. Guess it would work for them. :)
Sri Harsha (@harsha)
6th July 2013, 14:46
Well i disagree. Ferrari doesn’t have much wear like RBR or Merc. So getting rid of softs as quickly as they can and stretching the Medium tires stint wasn’t a big issue for them. I hope it will pay off but i don’t think it will. They may get Podium but Ferrari may lost the chance of Victory
Nigel Bates (@nigel1)
6th July 2013, 14:55
Did they have any new options left for Q3 ?
Eggry (@eggry)
6th July 2013, 14:13
It was enjoyable qualifying. Good to see Hamilton is back but I doubt Ferrari’s strategy would work. Work or not, I don’t think one of Ferraris would win. Podium would be maximum.
Tommy C (@tommy-c)
6th July 2013, 14:13
Danny Ricciardo impressive once again. Interested to see how the strategy pans out with the Ferraris on primes. And of course Rosberg out of position. Should be a good race!
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 14:29
@tommy-c The consolation for Rosberg is that he can start with fresh tyre of his choice, be it soft or medium.
bosyber (@bosyber)
6th July 2013, 14:40
Which is less of a good thing @seahorse,@tommy-c, with all those cars ahead that are starting on mediums, he’d have to clear them on pace anyway – maybe start on the options, try to get great start, get ahead of that group, he’d still have fresher options than those ahead (but Ferrari tend to have strong starts). Clear why he things he’s stuck a bit.
@HoHum (@hohum)
6th July 2013, 14:43
@seahorse, unfortunately for him starting on the prime will be no advantage because Ferrari are on the same strategy.
Jake (@jleigh)
6th July 2013, 14:16
Lets just hope Mark can actually start from 3rd rather than the lower reaches of the midfield as usual.
Eggry (@eggry)
6th July 2013, 14:17
@jleigh You know what? Grosjean is behind him :D
Sri Harsha (@harsha)
6th July 2013, 14:19
@eggry :D Mark hopes he doesn’t see a Japan 2012
Eggry (@eggry)
6th July 2013, 14:21
@harsha or last week although that was not Grosjean’s fault :D
Will (@w-h)
6th July 2013, 17:26
Or how about the last time Grosjean lined up behind Webber like this? Spa 2012!
Will (@w-h)
6th July 2013, 17:33
Scratch that… that was before Webber’s grid penalty, so can hardly implicate his starting form in all that!
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 14:28
@jleigh If Mark can actually get to the heels of P1 at the end of race after falling through the field at start (courtesy of his now regular poor starts :P), what he would do if he actually starts from P4? :D
Stijn (@stijnzer)
6th July 2013, 14:34
Hoping the front runners have tyre/gearbox issues? :p
Roald (@roald)
6th July 2013, 14:18
Ricciardo really wants that promotion, doesn’t he?
Sucks for Rosberg, what if Hamilton would win the title? Rosberg would probably feel terribly mistreated by his team…
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 14:25
@roald RIC’s p6 was partly due to both Ferraris setting lap time on primes rather than softs.
And if Rosberg feels mistreated, perhaps he can take a seat in Red Bull next year or in Lotus if RBR seat is taken by Kimi?
@HoHum (@hohum)
6th July 2013, 14:46
Still over half a second quicker than the other STR.
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 15:17
@hohum Yes credit must be given to Ricciardo for that though :)
Jake (@jleigh)
6th July 2013, 14:42
Or he could have just done a faster lap in the early part of Q2 like Lewis did….
pSynrg (@psynrg)
6th July 2013, 14:50
well said Jake.
Asif (@)
6th July 2013, 15:03
Yup Ricciardo is sure doing well. Too bad for him though as I think Kimi has got the RB seat locked up already.
nackavich (@nackavich)
6th July 2013, 17:39
Maybe Dan could slot into Lotus next year then and teach Grosjean how to drive..
Michael Brown (@)
6th July 2013, 14:19
Vettel for the win
MNM101 (@mnm101)
6th July 2013, 15:37
I think he will be leading after the first corner and control the race from there, I’m expecting him and HAM to lap everyone lower the P8
SeaHorse (@seahorse)
6th July 2013, 14:21
Forza Ferrari! ;)
Aimal (@aimalkhan)
6th July 2013, 14:24
I had Hamilton for pole but changed to vettel after FP3 this morning. darn it… :(
cg22me (@cg22me)
6th July 2013, 14:51
Ditto that.
Though, I do enjoy putting Vettel on Pole in the Championships. That way, either I’m happy because two of my favourite drivers are on pole (HAM and ROS), or I’m happy because I got the prediction correct :P
verstappen (@verstappen)
6th July 2013, 14:53
I had Rosberg, in 1:29.407, so wrong Mercedes and 9 thousants off.
AdrianMorse (@adrianmorse)
6th July 2013, 16:23
same here. Didn’t expect Vettel to take out all of the fuel in FP3, which is what he must have done. He deliberately messed up our predictions! ;-)
Chris (@tophercheese21)
6th July 2013, 14:24
Dam was so close to guessing Lewis’s time.
1:29.648
William (@william)
6th July 2013, 14:31
Your avatar says it all
Chris (@tophercheese21)
6th July 2013, 15:15
Don’t you forget it!
HAHA
sandy (@sandy)
6th July 2013, 14:33
Good strategy by ferrari. But if temperatures remain as hot as they are today, graining will be minimum.
Mads (@mads)
6th July 2013, 16:34
@sandy
They still have to use the softs anyway.
So they will have to rely on the front runners getting out in traffic after their first stop in order to make up the loss of track position. And then they just have to pray to god that they aren’t going to get eaten by a truckload of cars on mediums towards the end when they are fighting a set of graining soft tyres.
Alonshow
6th July 2013, 17:14
The front runners will absolutely get caught in traffic after their first pit stop. There’s no way they can make the gap to cover a pit stop before the softs die. The question is how quickly they will manage to clear that traffic (if they do). And there shouldn’t be any problem for the Ferraris with the softs at the end. By then they will know exactly how long they last.
Younger Hamii (@younger-hamii)
6th July 2013, 14:35
Another great lap from Hamilton to follow the impressive one 7 days ago. Seems distant from his aforementioned braking issues and putting the Mercedes on pole around a track like Nurburgring, which has a higher percentage spent braking than Silverstone, vindicates just that. Coming into the race, I don’t think tyre wear will be the concern for Mercedes, the concern will be their actual pace relative to the Red Bull.
Without a doubt the best qualifying session for Lotus, namely Grosjean, who’s been driving well this weekend so far it must be said. They definitely look in better shape compared to Canada and Silverstone and could pick up a fair amount of points should one keep their nose clean and not fall back at the start.
Qualifying as a whole was pretty close I think, one of the closest this season, especially in Q1 and Q2 and that’s virtue to the kevlar tyres and wayward track conditions playing their parts.
Alonshow
6th July 2013, 17:25
What’s the deal with the kevlar tyres? How would they equalise the performance of the cars?
Actually, I was shocked by the similarities among the lap times throughout qualifying. I mean, Mercedes certainly blundered with Rosberg, but did you notice that he missed Q3 with a time that was just half a second slower than P1 (Massa)? That’s crazy. I don’t think it has ever happened before.
Anele (@anele-mbethe)
6th July 2013, 14:36
Great lap from Hamilton, looking forward to an epic battle between him and Seb tomorrow.
Starbuck (@starbuck)
6th July 2013, 14:38
Webber drops 5 places at the start, Grosjean crashes, Massa yields – P5 for Alonso. Considering his podium positions from the back of the top 10, he’ll win this 100%.
;)
Eggry (@eggry)
6th July 2013, 14:52
Nice prediction :D
svarun (@svarun)
6th July 2013, 14:55
hope it happens! :P
Alonshow
6th July 2013, 17:29
And you still missed another one. I mean, Grosjean will crash with somebody right? He likes to share the fun ;)
Mike Dee (@mike-dee)
6th July 2013, 20:38
with Alonso maybe?
Diego (@ironcito)
7th July 2013, 10:08
With a slow Webber
karter22 (@karter22)
6th July 2013, 15:14
Everybody saying that Ferrari´s strategy will yield a fail is in for a rude awakening. Sure, they will have a tought time at the start, but those tyres will last longer. I predict a prime-prime-option strategy and a fight at the end for the lead!! It´s going to be an epic one for sure!!
ka (@ka12)
6th July 2013, 15:40
I am in doubt if they can run 2-pit-strategy tomorrow.
Sri Harsha (@harsha)
6th July 2013, 15:23
So 3 poles for the Trio of Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton.
Velocityboy (@velocityboy)
6th July 2013, 15:58
After missing both practice sessions on Friday, Bianchi qualified roughly 1 second faster than Chilton. I certainly hope that Lotus are eyeing him as a replacement for Kimi, or Ferrari plan to give him Massa’s seat.
Jon Sandor (@jonsan)
6th July 2013, 18:28
Alonso was lucky not to get hit with a grid drop after he seemed to impede Webber in Q3.
Tariq Patel (@mdtariqp)
6th July 2013, 18:28
As far as the start is concerned, are the drivers starting from the odd side of the grid at any advantage over the drivers starting from the even side of the grid
rrrev (@rrrev)
7th July 2013, 1:36
Daniel Ricciardo is on it