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Post by apedant on Mar 28, 2009 7:08:28 GMT
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Post by apedant on Mar 28, 2009 7:12:01 GMT
Q1--1.75 secs from 1st to 20th
Q2--0.871 secs from 1st to 14th
Q3--1.044 secs from 1st to 10th.
I've got a feeling its going to be a great race!
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Post by susieq on Mar 28, 2009 12:26:32 GMT
From the 2009 season, the FIA is making public the weights of the cars, with their fuel load included, following Saturday's qualifying session.
Below is the weight of each car following qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, sorted by grid position. Interesting that the Braun cars were no running light.
Pos. Driver Car weight
1. Jenson Button 664.5kg
2. Rubens Barrichello 666.5kg
3. Sebastien Vettel 657kg
4. Robert Kubica 650kg
5. Nico Rosberg 657kg
6. Felipe Massa 654kg
7. Kimi Raikkonen 655.5kg
8. Mark Webber 662kg
9. Nick Heidfeld 691.5kg
10. Fernando Alonso 680.7kg
11. Kazuki Nakajima 685.3kg
12. Heikki Kovalainen 690.6kg
13. Sebastien Buemi 675.5kg
14. Nelson Piquet 694.1kg
15. Giancarlo Fisichella 689kg
16. Adrian Sutil 684.5kg
17. Sebastien Bourdais 662.5kg
18. Lewis Hamilton 655kg
19. Jarno Trulli 660kg
20. Timo Glock 670kg
(autosport.com)
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Post by blacktulip on Mar 28, 2009 12:35:46 GMT
Its good to see the weight now we can work out who is due in togeather on pit stops and what the stratogy might be
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Post by apedant on Mar 28, 2009 13:09:59 GMT
Why is LH listed as 18th on the weights list? He Qualled in 15th and if he has to change parts that would put him plum last.
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Post by susieq on Mar 28, 2009 13:14:29 GMT
The BBC report that LH had a gear box change moving him to the bottom of the grid, then the Toyota guys where penalised and moved to the bottom of the grid, making LH 18th
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Post by fizzycola on Mar 28, 2009 13:25:57 GMT
Haven't the Toyotas been binned because their rear wing is too flexible or something like that?
fizzy
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Post by susieq on Mar 28, 2009 13:37:57 GMT
Yeah fizzy .......
The Toyotas of Timo Glock will start Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix from the back of the grid after stewards found their cars to be in contravention of the rules. They had qualified sixth and eighth respectively.
A post-qualifying inspection by the FIA found the TF109s’ to have ‘extreme flexibility’ in their rear wings, thus breaking Formula One racing’s technical regulations. Glock’s and Trulli’s qualifying times were cancelled as a result.
"The Stewards have received a report from the Technical Delegate that the upper rear wing elements of cars No. 9 and 10 are showing extreme flexibility in contravention of Article 3.15 of the 2009 Formula One Technical Regulations,” said the FIA.
(taken from wwwformula1.com)
Makes the rules that much harded to get your head around.
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Post by apedant on Mar 28, 2009 14:46:37 GMT
Ok, that makes sense...kind of.
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