Just finished watching the Shanghai qualifying and, call me spoiled, but compared to the excitement this season has regularly provided this session was relatively uneventful. That Lewis got pole was all but inevitable unless the Ferraris did something amazing (they didn't) or one of the other teams went for a super-low-fuel shot at a glory pole (neither of them did). For a moment in Q3 it actually looked like either Kimi or Heikki might be going for a low-fuel pole, but then Lewis proved those theories wrong by claiming pole by 0.3s.
Other than that, the talking points in this quali have been:
- the small time differences between the cars up front and the mid-pack - only 1.0s seperated the top 15 cars in Q1, a tiny amount when you consider the long-ish high 1:30s lap.
- Robert Kubica only managing 12th after being 3rd fastest in the morning practice - Sohan and I can't really figure out what could have caused the sudden disintegration of the car's handling
- The great form of the Renault and Toro Rosso cars, especially in the hands of Alonso and Vettel
I will leave you with some food for thought - if it indeed rains tomorrow as the weather forecast is threatening it might, than the likes of Piquet, Kubica and Glock might find themselves in a very good position to score well in the race. After all, Kubica went from 11th to 3rd at Monza this year
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Maybe it takes less to get me excited (!) but I thought this was a great qualifying... Partly because kimi actually had his act together for once, which meant Lewis had even more to do. I don't know how he got 0.3 s ahead at the end - I think it was simply a great lap rather than low fuel. Very disappointed about heikki. Glad mclaren only renewed his contract for one year. Keith on f1fanatic.co.UK made a joke about Lewis being followed by the "3 ferraris" tomorrow, I'm very curious to see what sort of mess Alonso might cause, especially since he doesn't want to see his record of youngest ever world champion to be broken! Bring on the rain and 7am tomorrow!
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