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Its all red in Australia

06 Mar

It is a Ferrari 1-2 in the season opening qualifying session. Michael Schumacher leads teammate Rubens Barrichello by 0.074th of a second. Montoya and Button tied with the same time are third and fourth. They are over half a second off Ferrari’s pace!

Mark Webber surprised everyone with a P6. Well its not surprising anymore, this dude is good! His teammate did not do well in his first qualifying, he went out in the out lap. We have to wait a couple of weeks to see how he compares with Webber. The BAR’s did pretty well with Button at P4 and Sato at P7. Alonso did well for a P5. The McLaren’s are probably the big disappointments of the session. Kimi Raikkonen only managed tenth with DC a further two places down. Ralf Schumacher was almost a second down on his teammate at 8th.

The interesting fact is that Fisichella had the fastest straight line speed at 318kph just faster than the Ferrari’s with 317kph. Here are the results:

1. M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari  
2. BARRICHELLO Ferrari  
3. MONTOYA Williams BMW 
4. BUTTON BAR Honda  
5. ALONSO Renault  
6. WEBBER Jaguar Cosworth  
7. SATO BAR Honda  
8. R.SCHUMACHER Williams BMW
9. TRULLI Renault  
10. RAIKKONEN McLaren Mercedes 
11. MASSA Sauber Petronas  
12. COULTHARD McLaren Mercedes 
13. DA MATTA Toyota   
14. FISICHELLA Sauber Petronas  
15. HEIDFELD Jordan Ford 
16. PANTANO Jordan Ford 
17. BAUMGARTNER Minardi Cosworth 
18. BRUNI Minardi Cosworth
19. KLIEN Jaguar Cosworth  
20. PANIS Toyota

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2 Comments

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  1. Param

    March 6, 2004 at 8:20 PM

    What is your guess on race strategy ?

    I believe

    Schumi, Rubinho, Monty, Button, Coulthard (?) are in 3-stop strategy.

    Ralph, Kimi are in 2-stop strategy.

    I m not sure about Alonsi,Sato, Trulli (the other top 10 runners).

    I know it doesn’t matter much which strategy you are on if you are off the pace by 0.5 Sec/lap. But I am sure Kimi will pick up valuable point in this race.

    Param.

     

  2. Vazz

    March 6, 2004 at 11:07 PM

    Kimi and DC are in a slightly different strategy. They have admitted it. But I think its more on when they would pit and not on how many times. But lets wait and see.

    As for Ralf, his comment “I don’t really know why everything went fine in the first qualifying but not in the second one. " indicates he is not on a defferent strategy to Montoya.

    Reliability will play a major role in tomorrows race. Ferrari has had a good record or at least Michael Schumacher has. BAR have not been very reliable last year. Can wait to see how things pan out.