China – Saturday Practice

by Terry Saunders on 18/04/2009

Rosberg 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