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Monaco Qualifying

A shock result from the qualifying session for Monaco, the McLaren’s have only managed to take the second row of the grid, being out qualified by the Ferrari’s at the ‘McLaren Track’.

Lewis Hamilton seemed to be struggling the whole session to get a good time in sector 2 of the track, and it seemed to be where he was loosing his time.

Massa eclipsed his team mate in all three sessions of the qualifying, and seemed to have the Ferrari hooked up better than Kimi.

Heikki put in a solid lap considering he was in a rebuilt car after putting his McLaren into the barrier this morning in practice.

Robert Kubica’s BMW-Sauber looked a complete handful, so it’s impressive to see him on the fifth spot of the grid, he certainly faired better than his German team mate, who start’s thirteenth.

Nico was possibly the outstanding driver of the session, putting the Williams onto the third row of the grid. He seemed to have a well planted front end to the car, and drove well to get his car there. Constantly 1.2 seconds faster than his young team mate.

Ferrari still with car issues?

Just watching the Live coverage of the test session 1, and it looks like Kimi has again been forced to leave his car out on track, and walk back to the pits.

Have Ferrari still got the same issues as they did in Australia? it is another hot session in Malaysia. Kimi seemed to loose drive, as the onboard shots had him trying to change up, with the engine then not wanting to rev, and eventually shutting itself down, forcing Kimi to coast.

Also David Coulthard will not be taking any more part in this session, after missing the apex at a chicane entry, he ran over the second part of the corners grass inside, he then hit what must have been a kerb sticking out of the grass, and had the front end of his Red Bull collapse on him. Lots of work for the Red Bull Mechanics if he wants to be out in session 2.

DC’s off caused the session to be Red Flagged so that the track could be cleaned, and the car moved.