Belgium Grand Prix 2013, Spa-Francorchamps - Race 11/19

Great pole from Lewis, would have been nice to see it not dry out though.
In hindsight playing it slow coming out at the end worked out nicely, but at the start of Q3 I thought Di Resta was a genius and Massa was the only other sane ish person. I was baffled why as the weather was getting worse no-one was rushing back out. Clearly they knew the weather was going to pick up!
 
PinkFloyd said:
Great pole from Lewis, would have been nice to see it not dry out though.
In hindsight playing it slow coming out at the end worked out nicely, but at the start of Q3 I thought Di Resta was a genius and Massa was the only other sane ish person. I was baffled why as the weather was getting worse no-one was rushing back out. Clearly they knew the weather was going to pick up!
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They weren't waiting for better weather, and though I may have been thinking about Q2, I think it was Vettel/Hamilton taking the longest to come out.

Either way they weren't waiting, they have to get wheeled into the pits to refuel. They all went out for one qualy lap in the dry before it got wet so they all likely went with minimum fuel, refueling takes time and with 8 guys coming in there is a little quick maths to do to work out best timing to leave for being over the line last, which Merc and unsurprisingly Red Bull got right.

The delay and refueling obviously helped them and my guess is Massa was out so fast as he had gone for a different strategy so did a normal pitstop for tyres and shot out while everyone else had to get enough fuel to last the rest of the session. Refueling is slow and not allowed in pitlane.
 
Nicely done Hamilton, got pole for the 4th consecutive time. That Mercedes is really starting to look good. Hopefully Hamilton can win the race proper tomorrow, would love to see him overtake Vettel and win the drivers championship this season.
 
Qually Result

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[b]Pos  Driver              Team                   Time            Gap   [/b]
 1.  Lewis Hamilton      Mercedes               2m01.012s           
 2.  Sebastian Vettel    Red Bull-Renault       2m01.200s  + 0.188s 
 3.  Mark Webber         Red Bull-Renault       2m01.325s  + 0.313s 
 4.  Nico Rosberg        Mercedes               2m02.251s  + 1.239s 
 5.  Paul di Resta       Force India-Mercedes   2m02.332s  + 1.320s 
 6.  Jenson Button       McLaren-Mercedes       2m03.075s  + 2.063s 
 7.  Romain Grosjean     Lotus-Renault          2m03.081s  + 2.069s 
 8.  Kimi Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault          2m03.390s  + 2.378s 
 9.  Fernando Alonso     Ferrari                2m03.482s  + 2.470s 
10.  Felipe Massa        Ferrari                2m04.059s  + 3.047s
Q2 cut-off time: 1m49.088s                             Gap **
11.  Nico Hulkenberg     Sauber-Ferrari         1m49.088s  + 0.792s  
12.  Adrian Sutil        Force India-Mercedes 	1m49.103s  + 0.807s  
13.  Sergio Perez        McLaren-Mercedes     	1m49.304s  + 1.008s  
14.  Giedo van der Garde Caterham-Renault     	1m52.036s  + 3.740s  
15.  Jules Bianchi       Marussia-Cosworth    	1m52.563s  + 4.267s  
16.  Max Chilton         Marussia-Cosworth    	1m52.762s  + 4.466s  
Q1 cut-off time: 2m02.948s                              Gap *
17.  Pastor Maldonado    Williams-Renault       2m03.072s  + 2.882s  
18.  Jean-Eric Vergne  	 Toro Rosso-Ferrari   	2m03.300s  + 3.110s  
19.  Daniel Ricciardo    Toro Rosso-Ferrari  	  2m03.317s  + 3.127s  
20.  Valtteri Bottas   	 Williams-Renault     	2m03.432s  + 3.242s  
21.  Esteban Gutierrez   Sauber-Ferrari         2m04.324s  + 4.134s  
22.  Charles Pic
 
Speed Trap results from Practice 3 (left) and Qualifying (right).

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Brilliant Pic.

What a Qualifying Session. The best of the year ! My heart was going like the clappers in Q1/Q2 and Q3 !

Really exciting in Q3, the Ardennes Micro Weather System did an exceptional job today. Great pole for Hamilton, really though Di Resta was getting pole, he would have if the rain had stayed consistent maybe!

Brilliant result from Jenson, extracting the maximum again. Also I think (and hope) that Whitmarsh was pushing the team really hard for a wet race set up as I heard in Q1 that the team were divided on which way to go. If we have set up for wet race trim tomorrow we could have a brilliant race from P6.

Can't wait for tomorrow! :D
 
Interesting, someone has pointed out that Lewis had all four tyres off the track at the top of Eau Rouge on his pole lap.

They were all doing it all weekend so far at Stavelot as well... makes me wonder why Grosjean got punished for his move on Massa at the last race then.

.... Where's the consistency?
 
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