Webber grabs pole in Barcelona
FIA ban Ferrari’s rear win ahead of Spanish GP.
BARCELONA:
Mark Webber claimed his first pole position of the season during qualifying for today’s Spanish Grand Prix.
The 34-year-old Australian clocked a time of one minute 20.981, edging out his Red Bull teammate and defending drivers champion German Sebastian Vettel by 0.2 seconds. Briton Lewis Hamilton was third fastest despite being almost a second off Webber’s time.
Spaniard Fernando Alondo of Ferrari split the two McLarens pipping Briton Jenson Button to fourth place in his final lap of the session. German Nico Rosberg of Mercedes was sixth fastest followed by Brazilian Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari.
FIA ban Ferrari’s rear wing
The FIA has banned Ferrari from using their latest rear wing design.
The Italian team was testing a number of car upgrades during Friday’s practice sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya, but the sport’s governing body deemed the new design to be in breach of the technical regulations.
The Maranello based team had tried to exploit an area in the rules which meant that they could raise the overall height of their rear wing. But the FIA technical delegate suggested that they had bent the rules a little too far.
The FIA’s decision means that Ferrari has had to take the new wing design off its car for the final free practice session in Spain, and it has reverted to the specification of rear wing that it used at the Turkish Grand Prix.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2011.
Mark Webber claimed his first pole position of the season during qualifying for today’s Spanish Grand Prix.
The 34-year-old Australian clocked a time of one minute 20.981, edging out his Red Bull teammate and defending drivers champion German Sebastian Vettel by 0.2 seconds. Briton Lewis Hamilton was third fastest despite being almost a second off Webber’s time.
Spaniard Fernando Alondo of Ferrari split the two McLarens pipping Briton Jenson Button to fourth place in his final lap of the session. German Nico Rosberg of Mercedes was sixth fastest followed by Brazilian Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari.
FIA ban Ferrari’s rear wing
The FIA has banned Ferrari from using their latest rear wing design.
The Italian team was testing a number of car upgrades during Friday’s practice sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya, but the sport’s governing body deemed the new design to be in breach of the technical regulations.
The Maranello based team had tried to exploit an area in the rules which meant that they could raise the overall height of their rear wing. But the FIA technical delegate suggested that they had bent the rules a little too far.
The FIA’s decision means that Ferrari has had to take the new wing design off its car for the final free practice session in Spain, and it has reverted to the specification of rear wing that it used at the Turkish Grand Prix.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 22nd, 2011.