Australian GP: Qualifying - Results

Here are the results from Qualifying on the Australian GP Weekend.


For those of you new to my blog or to how F1 Qualifying works in general, allow me to take you through it real fast - We have 3 rounds of qualifying, in the first round we start with all 22 cars and they complete laps to see who goes fastest and gets to move on in round 2. The 6 slowest cars drop out and do not move on. In round 2, the next 6 slowest cars drop out until there are 10 cars and those last 10 cars get 12 minutes to see who will get Pole Position and get to start with a lead.

So, I don't have the complete round-up this time, but I do have the results after Penalties. Usually I'd post it with how people were knocked out, but this time I'm getting to how it worked out after penalties were put in place and stuff.

Results:

1. (Pole) - Lewis Hamilton / Mercedes
2. Daniel Ricciardo / Redbull
3. Nico Rosberg / Mercedes
4. Kevin Magnussen / McLaren
5. Fernando Alonso / Ferrari
6. Jean-Eric Vergne / Toro Rosso
7. Nico Hulkenberg / Force India
8. Danill Kvyat / Toro Rosso
9. Felipe Massa / Williams
10. Jenson Button / McLaren
11. Kimi Raikkonen / Ferrari
12. Sebastian Vettel / Redbull
13. Adrian Sutil / Sauber
14. Kamui Kobayashi / Caterham
15. Valtteri Bottas / Williams
16. Sergio Perez / Force India
17. Max Chilton / Marussia
18. Jules Bianchi / Marussia
19. Marcus Ericsson / Caterham
20. Romain Grosjean / Lotus
21. Esteban Gutierrez / Sauber

Started From Pit Lane: Pastor Maldonado / Lotus

So, what happened was that Gutierrez got a 5 place grid penalty, as did Bottas for changing their gearboxes. Gearboxes are supposed to last throughout at least 6 events. So, Esteban was supposed to start from 22nd, though Maldonado did not Qualify at all and had to get permission to even race in the event. He was granted permission but had to start from pit lane, so they only said that 21 people were on the grid.

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