F1 News
- March 22, 2008
Qualifying at Malaysia
The Ferrari’s looked good in qualifying. Both of the Scarlet cars are on the front of the grid, with Massa taking the pole spot.
The McLaren’s looked slower all qualifying session, so it seems that they may have put a little more fuel in the cars, and went for the second row, which they got. Heikki managing to take third spot, with Hamilton looking out of sorts and struggling to keep Trulli’s Toyota behind him.
Trulli is surely the shock of the session though, setting the fastest time in Q1, and then the ‘best of the rest’ for fifth spot in the final Q3 session.
The two BMW’s follow Trulli in sixth and seventh for Kubica and Heidfeld, Webber managing to take eighth, Alonso ninth and the second Toyota of Timo Glock on the tenth spot.
It was quite a dangerous session though, with Alonso and Heidfeld both trying to set times at the end of the session, with all the other cars touring very slowly in fuel saving mode back to the pit’s. There will certainly have to be some sort of ruling stopping the cars going so slowly when they have finished their own final fast lap.
So it seems that the Ferrari’s are the fastest boys around the Sepang circuit, at least over one lap, and we know that the team usually have good race pace. So can McLaren or perhaps even Trulli take the fight to them tomorrow in the race?
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