AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX - QUALIFYING
The new revised version of Qualifying got underway yesterday and it proved to be a hit and miss with the teams and fans. It has recently been decided that this revised version will be dropped and will not be used in Bahrain and onward.
Q1 consists of 16 minutes on the clock. After the first 7 minutes, the slowest car is eliminated after 90 seconds and another car every 90 seconds until the clock runs out. A total of 7 cars are eliminated in Q1
Q1 RESULTS:
1st Eliminated: Pascal Wehrlein
2nd Eliminated: Rio Haryanto
3rd Eliminated: Esteban Gutierrez
4th Eliminated: Romain Grosjean
5th Eliminated: Daniil Kvyat
6th Eliminated: Felipe Nasr
7th Eliminated: Marcus Ericsson
Q2 consists of 15 minutes on the clock and after the first 6 minutes, the slowest car is eliminated after 90 seconds. A total of 7 cars are eliminated in this round as well.
Q2 RESULTS:
1st Eliminated: Kevin Magnussen
2nd Eliminated: Jolyon Palmer
3rd Eliminated: Jenson Button
4th Eliminated: Fernando Alonso
5th Eliminated: Valtteri Bottas
6th Eliminated: Nico Hulkenberg
7th Eliminated: Sergio Perez
Q3 consists of 14 minutes and after the first 5 minutes, the slowest car is eliminated after 90 seconds and 6 cars are eliminated until the final 2 cars battle it out for pole in the remaining minutes.
Q3 RESULTS:
1st Eliminated: Daniel Ricciardo
2nd Eliminated: Carlos Sainz
3rd Eliminated: Felipe Massa
4th Eliminated: Max Verstappen
5th Eliminated: Kimi Raikkonen
6th Eliminated: Sebastian Vettel
7th Eliminated: Nico Rosberg
Pole Position: Lewis Hamilton
---- Rio Haryanto was given a 3-Place-Grid-Penalty for hitting Romain Grosjean in FP3 and Valtteri Bottas has a 5-Place-Grid-Penalty for a gearbox change
Here are the final results for the Australian GP Grid Line-Up
STARTING GRID:
1. Lewis Hamilton / Mercedes-Mercedes / Great Britain
2. Nico Rosberg / Mercedes-Mercedes / Germany
3. Sebastian Vettel / Ferrari-Ferrari / Germany
4. Kimi Raikkonen / Ferrari-Ferrari / Finland
5. Max Verstappen / Toro Rosso-Ferrari / Netherlands
6. Felipe Massa / Williams-Mercedes / Brazil
7. Carlos Sainz / Toro Rosso-Ferrari / Spain
8. Daniel Ricciardo / Red Bull-TAG-HEUER / Australia
9. Sergio Perez / Force India-Mercedes / Mexico
10. Nico Hulkenberg / Force India-Mercedes / Germany
11. Fernando Alonso / McLaren-Honda / Spain
12. Jenson Button / McLaren-Honda / Great Britain
13. Jolyon Palmer / Renault-Renault / Great Britain
14. Kevin Magnussen / Renault-Renault / Denmark
15. Marcus Ericsson / Sauber-Ferrari / Sweden
16. Valtteri Bottas / Williams-Mercedes / Finland
17. Felipe Nasr / Sauber-Ferrari / Brazil
18. Daniil Kvyat / Red Bull-TAG-HEUER / Russia
19. Romain Grosjean / Haas-Ferrari / France
20. Esteban Gutierrez / Haas-Ferrari / Mexico
21. Pascal Wehrlein / Manor-Mercedes / Germany
22. Rio Haryanto / Manor-Mercedes / Indonesia
----
Article Written By: Amy Hawk
No copyright infringement intended
Follow F1Insider78
No comments:
Post a Comment