Qualifying was once again a battle between the Mercedes team with Lewis Hamilton taking the honours in the first part of the session but it was Rosberg who took it when it mattered in Q3, But Hamilton did try to respond to Rosberg when it got down to the final moments of the session. But
Practice for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was a tale of two sessions. FP1 isn’t really a session which you can read a lot into as it a lunchtime sessions which is the hottest part of the day but however this is not the case we saw in both sessions narrow. The gaps The gaps
Qualifying was a trip into the unknown for everyone after Friday’s events. Teams were hampered first of all by a fuel spill on Thursday night delaying FP1 and wet weather in the afternoon everyone needed a clean FP3. FP3 was the only unhindered session until Carlos Sainz crashed out. The accident happened after damaged to
Today’s running in Suzuka was hit by rain thought out the day which gave us a change from the normal Mercedes inter-team battle. But however we know Mercedes do mask there true performance on Friday’s before turning it up on Saturday for FP3 and qualifying. Red Bull run well today but how will they carry
Mercedes P1- 1st Lewis Hamilton, 2nd Nico Rosberg P2- 1st Lewis Hamilton, 4th Nico Rosberg Mercedes look to be strong going into this weekend’s race they will however need to work hard to stay ahead this weekend. Hamilton knows what it takes to win here but it hasn’t always gone his way. Both Hamilton and
Mercedes Qualifying – 1st Lewis Hamilton 2nd Nico Rosberg Hamilton looks to be on form and as ever will be keen to stay ahead of Rosberg a task which may prove difficult on Sunday. Hamilton needs a win to extend his narrow lead in the championship. Nigel Mansell said once that Silverstone is worth an
Mercedes 1st Lewis Hamilton, 2nd Nico Rosberg Hamilton had a good race and managed to do what he needed to in order to stay ahead on track. He opened the gap and mange to use the strategy to best affect to take the advantage to take victory. Rosberg managed to stay with him but
Mercedes 1st Lewis Hamilton, 2nd Nico Rosberg Hamilton has a strong fight to Rosberg in the final part of qualifying. He managed to go find the time when it mattered in Q3 going faster by 1.720 seconds than Sebastian Vettel in Q1. But Vettel as we saw in Sepang may have the better race pace
Mercedes P1- 1st Lewis Hamilton, 2nd Nico Rosberg P2- 1st Lewis Hamilton, 5th Nico Rosberg Mercedes looked to have built and learnt from the mistakes in Sepang and from the time sheets appeared to be back where they were in Melbourne. Hamilton in P1 & P2 went quicker than the Ferrari’s the gap is close.
