“Kimi Was Either Drinking Vodka or Dreaming”It really looked as though Red Bull Racing was going to record its first ever all-front row on an F1 grid, but it didn’t quite happen.
Everyone in the team has still got plenty to smile about as Sebastian Vettel gave us our third pole of the season, when he was fastest for the fourth time in his career.
The young German also set the fastest lap of the afternoon in Q2, when the cars run on low fuel. Mark Webber has been looking mighty all weekend, but on his final quick lap in Q3, he was delayed by a Finn in a Ferrari, dawdling on the racing line and will start from right behind his team-mate in third place.
“I think Kimi was either drinking vodka or dreaming,” quipped our Aussie racer in the post-qualifying press conference, before both he and Seb paid tribute to the huge amount of work from everyone back at the factory that went into producing all the updates for our RB5 for this weekend. And for once, many of those backroom boys and girls would have heard that praise first-hand, as many of them are here in the grandstands, courtesy of free tickets from the company, to watch the action in the flesh rather than on television.
Many of them will be here tomorrow for the 60 lap British Grand Prix, so what can they expect? From first and third on the grid, with both cars on the clean side of the track, we can have high hopes of converting qualifying into an unqualified success. Where are those menacing Brawns? Well, today it was Rubens Barrichello, a man who has always gone well at this track, who split the two Red Bulls, to start alongside Sebastian on the front row. We could make an awful joke and say that today, we made a Brawn Sandwich! As for the darling of the crowd, Jenson Button, he is on the outside of row 3 in sixth spot. Writing this before the race start weights have been published, we need to wait and see if he’s carrying more fuel than those ahead of him. Mark Webber has the Toyota of Jarno Trulli alongside him on the second row, while Kazuki Nakajima took an impressive fifth place for Williams.
It’s sixty laps tomorrow and the most usual way to complete it is to divide the race into three nice and neat 20 lap stints. But if it was that easy, we wouldn’t need strategists.
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