Lewis Hamilton beats Adrian Sutil to pole (Italian Grand Prix qualifying)
12 September 2009 by Keith Collantine
Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the Italian Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton and Adrian Sutil will share the front row of a grid for the
Italian Grand Prix tomorrow.
It’s the first time they’ve done so since 2005 at Zandvoort – when the
pair were team mates in the F3 Euroseries.
A last-gap effort from Hamilton seized pole position from the Force India
driver. Sutil failed to emulate former team mate Fisichella’s pole position
at Spa two weeks ago by just two tenths of a second.
Q1
Sutil was fastest in two of the three practice sessions and went into
qualifying as favourite to give Force India their second pole position.
With warm temperatures remaining into qualifying, most drivers started the
session on the medium compounds tyres instead of the softs.
The last driver to set a time – Hamilton – went quickest, setting a 1′
23.375. Behind him were the Brawns of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello,
following by Vitantonio Liuzzi.
With the lap times extremely close the line between being knocked out and
reaching the second session was razor thin. With five minutes reminaing
Giancarlo Fisichella in ninth to Mark Webber in 19th were covered by just
half a second.
When Hamilton came out of the pits for his second attempt he arrived on-track
as Sebastien Buemi was passing by. Hamilton stayed over to the right of the
track but Buemi missed the first chicane, taking to the run-off area. There’
s been no words from he stewards yet on whether Hamilton will get a penalty.
Buemi had another chance to complete a lap but despite being seven-tenths
quicker than team mate Jaime Alguersuari, that only made the difference
between last and second-to-last.
A late effort by Nico Rosberg wasn’t enough to get him out of the drop zone
– or, indeed, ahead of team mate Kazuki Nakajima. Fellow Toyota user Timo
Glock joined them in the bottom five, having been just 0.022s slower than
team mate Jarno Trulli.
Drivers eliminated in Q1
16. Timo Glock, Toyota – 1′24.036
17. Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota – 1′24.074
18. Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota – 1′24.121
19. Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari – 1′24.220
20. Jaime Alguersuari, Toro Rosso-Ferrari – 1′24.961
Q2
Both BMWs made it into the second part of qualifying but neither made it any
further. First Nick Heidfeld, then Robert Kubica pulled over with blown
engines during the session.
The Mercedes-powered cars continued to lead the way, with Button’s Brawn
ahead of Hamilton’s McLaren and Barrichello in the other Brawn.
Fourth and fifth were also taken up with Mercedes-engined cars: Sutil and
Liuzzi for Force India, the last jumping out of the drop zone in the dying
moments of the session.
That pushed Jarno Trulli down from tenth to 11th, and out of qualifying. With
Fisichella stuck in 14th, Liuzzi was the only home driver in the top ten.
Drivers eliminated in Q2
11. Jarno Trulli, Toyota – 1′23.611
12. Romain Grosjean, Renault – 1′23.728
13. Robert Kubica, BMW – 1′23.866
14. Giancarlo Fisichella, Ferrari – 1′23.901
15. Nick Heidfeld, BMW – 1′24.275
Q3
The top ten comprised McLarens, Brawn, Force Indias, Red Bulls, Fernando
Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen.
Most of them decided only to come out at the end of the session, but none of
them beat the early time of 1′24.605 set down by Hamilton with their first
attempts. Raikkonen took up second ahead of Sutil.
The final laps were classic qualifying drama – Sutil snatched pole position
off Hamilton with his last effort, but lost time with a visible mistake at
Lesmo. Hamilton punished him for it, taking pole position back with the last
lap of the session, by just two tenths of a second.
Three of the top four cars were KERS-powered, with Raikkonen taking third
ahead of Kovalainen. Alonso put his Renault, with KERS re-fitted, in eighth
place.
Championship leader Button will start behind his team mate in sixth – but
ahead of the Red Bull due of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, who qualified
at the tail end of the top ten.
Update: Hamilton has not been penalised following the Buemi incident.
The fuel weights will be posted on F1 Fanatic as they are announced.
Top ten drivers in Q3
1. Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes – 1′24.066
2. Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes – 1′24.261
3. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari – 1′24.523
4. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes – 1′24.845
5. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes – 1′25.015
6. Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes – 1′25.030
7. Vitantonio Liuzzi, Force India-Mercedes – 1′25.043
8. Fernando Alonso, Renault – 1′25.072
9. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault – 1′25.180
10. Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault – 1′25.314
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2009/09/12/italian-grand-prix-qualifying/
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