China – Saturday Practice
by Terry Saunders on 18/04/2009Rosberg banged it back up to the top, yet again giving us hope of a proper Williams revival. but first he took up his duties as part of the F1 re-enactment society by sliding off into the Super Bonus Mega Gravel Trap in the pitlane just like Lewis Hamilton did in 2007 to lose the championship.
The only other notables were the lack of running from both the Red Bulls and Alonso in the Renault. The Red Bull cars have been crippled by some kind of drive shaft thing that apparently costs fuck all but is shit and is breaking things. Sorry if you can’t keep up with the technical jargons there.
So Red Bull’s and Alonso must therefore be fucked for qualifying, that is all I know (and I am not writing this up after qualifying to make me look stupid or clever… yes I am doing exactly that).
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:36.133 17 2. Trulli Toyota 1:36.272 + 0.139 22 3. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.330 + 0.197 17 4. Button Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:36.463 + 0.330 16 5. Piquet Renault 1:36.464 + 0.331 16 6. Massa Ferrari 1:36.528 + 0.395 18 7. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.547 + 0.414 13 8. Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:36.560 + 0.427 17 9. Raikkonen Ferrari 1:36.568 + 0.435 17 10. Barrichello Brawn GP-Mercedes 1:36.642 + 0.509 17 11. Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:36.702 + 0.569 14 12. Kubica BMW Sauber 1:36.742 + 0.609 14 13. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.742 + 0.609 16 14. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.834 + 0.701 17 15. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:37.330 + 1.197 8 16. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:37.349 + 1.216 7 17. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:37.534 + 1.401 17 18. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:37.732 + 1.599 18 19. Alonso Renault 1:38.003 + 1.870 6 20. Glock Toyota 1:39.110 + 2.977 6