Jorge Lorenzo and Yamaha have promised to give everything in their attempts to deny Casey Stoner a home victory after the Spaniard qualified second on the grid
Force India today got both cars through to Q3 in qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix and Paul di Resta will start ninth, one place ahead of team-mate Adrian Sutil.
Toro Rosso narrowly missed out getting a car through to Q3 today in Korea but had to settle for eleventh and thirteenth on the grid for tomorrow’s race.
The second practice session for the British Touring Car Championship field saw faster time in general with nine drivers squeezing under the minute mark compared to just two in the opening session.
Sebastian Vettel seemed relieved to be reasonably close to the pace of McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix, rather than disappointed that Red Bull’s run of pole-positions had been broken.
Both Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez complained of sub-optimal set-ups as they qualified only fourteenth and seventeenth respectively for the Korean Grand Prix.
Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali used his post-qualifying interviews in Korea to pay tribute to colleague Pasquale Danza, who passed away today. During the qualifying session, Felipe Massa out-qualified Fernando Alonso had the Ferrari duo took fifth and sixth places on the grid for tomorrow’s Korean Grand Prix.
Rubens Barrichello suffered ignominy of crashing out of qualifying with the six drivers from the new team today in Korea as Williams suffered another poor qualifying session.
Adam Morgan has crucially taken pole position in the final Michelin Ginetta GT Supercup qualifying session of the season at Silverstone,…
Josh Webster took a crucial pole position for the opening race in the final weekend of the 2011 Protyre Formula Renault…
Driver Team Time Gap 1 Tom Chilton Team Aon 59.900 2 Mat Jackson Airwaves Racing 59.927 +0.027 3 Tom…
Lewis Hamilton took pole position in Korea with Sebastian Vettel second and Jenson Button third.
There were contrasting fortunes between the Renault drivers during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix today as Vitaly Petrov took ninth place on the Yeongam grid but Bruno Senna could manage only P15.
Daniel Ricciardo failed to set a lap time during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix today after his HRT developed a water pressure problem that forced him to return to his garage.
Heikki Kovalainen suspects that his qualifying lap in Korea today, which gave him P19 on the grid for tomorrow’s race, could have been his best of the season.
Vibrations during his single qualifying lap in Q2 caused Michael Schumacher to miss out on a place in the top-ten shoot-out by exactly one tenth of a second in Korea today.
The blue oval dominated the first 40 minute practice session at Silverstone, Team Aon driver Tom Chilton leading the session by putting in a lap of 59.900 in the final two minutes of the session.
