Although they failed to qualify either car on the front row in Brazil, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh is confident that both Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton can challenge for victory at Interlagos tomorrow.
Fernando Alonso claimed fifth place in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix today in Interlagos – a grid position he has now occupied for nine of the nineteen races this season.
Sebastien Buemi did not complete a single lap during the final free practice session in Brazil this morning, but qualified fourteenth this afternoon ahead of both Sauber drivers, who are Toro Rosso’s main rivals for the weekend.
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Sauber will be hoping for rain during tomorrow’s Brazilian Grand Prix as another tricky qualifying session today leaves Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez starting from sixteenth and seventeenth on the Interlagos grid.
Force India enjoyed another good qualifying session today in Brazil as Adrian Sutil secured eighth place on the Interlagos grid and Paul di Resta qualified eleventh.
Team Lotus had what Mike Gascoyne described as ‘a strong end to qualifying for this season’ in Brazil today as Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli took their somewhat traditional grid slots of nineteenth and twentieth respectively.
HRT are tonight celebrating a good qualifying session by their standards after both Vitantonio Liuzzi and Daniel Ricciardo out-qualified the two Virgin Racing drivers.
Rubens Barrichello was very pleased after qualifying in Brazil today after he pulled a strong lap out of the bag to secure twelve place on the Interlagos grid.
Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn described his team’s performance in the final qualifying session of the season as ‘reasonable’ after Nico Rosberg secured sixth place on the Interlagos grid and Michael Schumacher took tenth.
Sebastian Vettel said that he was ‘very happy’ after securing pole position in Brazil today and beating the driver record for the number of pole positions scored in one season.
Sebastian Vettel takes pole position at the Brazilian Grand Prix with a pole time of 1:11.918
Sebastian Vettel has set a new record for the number of pole positions in a season after taking number fifteen today in Brazil. Mark Webber will start alongside his team-mate on the front row of the Interlagos grid, but was over one tenth of a second slower than Vettel in qualifying today.
Sebastian Vettel was fastest for Red Bull in the final F1 practice session of the season in Brazil with a time of 1:12.460
Broadcasters Sky and the BBC have, in separate announcements, given more information about how UK fans will be able to watch Formula 1 in 2012.
Mark Webber said that, although his Red Bull team had a bit of a challenge setting up the car during Friday practice in Brazil today, he was pleased with how things had gone.
Fernando Alonso said that his Ferrari team are ‘a bit less competitive than usual’ in Brazil today after finished Friday practice fourth on the timesheets.
