Pilot “Mercedes” Lewis Hamilton won the pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix, the third stage of the season, “Formula 1″. With this victory, the Briton stood on a par with Senna, Fangio and Schumacher. Russian Daniil Kvyat has not passed the final segment of qualifying and will start the race from the 12th position.
The second day of the Chinese Grand Prix, one of the most unusual stages of “Formula 1″, launched free races, in which again, as the previous day, the undisputed leader was the driver of “Mercedes” Lewis Hamilton. Briton drove his best lap of 1: 37,615, two tenths of a second ahead of his team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Formula 1. Chinese Grand Prix. Qualifications
1. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes AMG F1) – 1: 35.782
2. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes AMG F1) +0.042
3. Sebastian Vettel (Scuderia Ferrari) +0.905
4. Felipe Massa (Williams) +1.172
5. Valtteri Bottas (Williams) +1.361
6. Kimi Raikkonen (Scuderia Ferrari) +1.450
7. Daniel Ricardo (Red Bull Racing) +1.758
8. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) +2.123
9. Felipe Nasr (Sauber) +2.285
10. Marcus Ericsson (Sauber) +2.376
Following the German supercar slim lined up a number of results “Ferrari” Vettel and Raikkonen and “Red Bull” Riccardo and Kvyat. Training missed Fernando Alonso, who had problems with the ignition, but the beginning of their qualification was solved.
The very argument for pole intriguing frankly failed. Is that the fans of Daniel Kvyat exhaled after the first segment, when the Russian pilot made a mistake on one of the brake, miraculously survived on saving the 15 th position.
Be the first he could “McLaren” Button and Alonso or “Force India” Hulkenberg, but in the end all this stellar company remained behind, taking with him representatives of the “Manor” Stevens and Mary.
It is interesting that the riders “McLaren” for the third time in a row were the 17th and 18th places. In this year’s championship team with two world champions yet never came out of the first segment.
As a result, the first segment Vettel won with a time of 1: 37,502, slightly behind Raikkonen and Bottas. Hamilton is somewhat surprising is located at the fifth position, while Rosberg was the eighth with almost second behind the leader.
However, in the second part of qualifying everything fell into place: Hamilton and Rosberg immediately set the tone for “software” for the first time after leaving the Grand Prix of 1:37, and very solid. Briton – and at six-tenths of a second.
However, Vettel is also not much behind with a time of 1: 36,957, the fourth line took his teammate Kimi Raikkonen, Felipe Massa was fifth.
Daniel Kvyat less fortunate: his car go haywire, and the rider had to return to the pits. He subsequently traveled distance, but showed only the 12th time, without getting into the third segment.
In the decisive races of the championship leader gave something breathtaking, driving range up to 1: 35,782. Of course, no one, except for the second “Mercedes”, and not picked up close to this time.
Rosberg behind just 42 thousandths of a second and will start the second, but Vettel lost its main owner of the poles almost a second. Also worth noting is the success of the two “Sauber” synchronously got into the top ten.
This pole for Hamilton is the fifth in the Chinese education. Earlier, five or more wins in qualifying on one track only won great riders of the past Ayrton Senna, Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher.
After the races the British driver said his car “behaves” better than Malaysia.
«Route in China continues to be good for me. Machine behaves fantastically throughout the weekend, much better than it was in Malaysia – the words of Lewis BBC. – There are many factors that could be mentioned, but this weekend it turns out for us much easier.
Our side of the garage trying to fully implement the program we had no problems, but tomorrow is a long race. ”
Rosberg, in turn, was upset by the humiliating defeat: “I am disappointed that it was not possible to win the pole. We are talking about four hundredths – it’s nothing. ”
As for Vettel, he was full of optimism and said that in the race looks to be closer to the “Mercedes”.
«I’m happy today. In the third segment, we used a different strategy, riding on an old set of tires. “Mercedes” was faster than we expected – the third position was the most we could expect today. Hopefully in the race we will be closer. In addition, this track is very important to work rubber “, – said four-time world champion.
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