BELGIAN GRAND PRIX - RACE
Nico Rosberg finished in sixth place in today’s Belgian
Grand Prix, contributing three valuable points for the second
weekend in succession to the tightly contested mid-field in
the Constructor’s Championship. This has extended the
team’s lead over Red Bull and closing the gap to third-placed
Renault. Alex Wurz by contrast suffered a difficult race with
a fuel pressure problem which could not be remedied by altering
his strategy. Ultimately the team decided to retire the car
in order to be able to thoroughly investigate the problem.
Nico Rosberg: I am absolutely delighted
with the result because today we were again the fourth placed
team and it really shows that we are making progress from
one race to the next. It’s also positive for me because
a good car allows me to show what I can do and I am now collecting
points consistently, which was my target at the start of the
season. BMW were too strong today, so finishing 6th was the
best possible outcome. I am especially happy that I did well
at this challenging track which was amazing to drive. From
here I hope I can continue this progress and improve my placing
in the Driver’s Championship over the next three races.
Alex Wurz: Starting from 15th on the grid
was anything but ideal and it was terribly frustrating. But
it was all uphill because we had some fuel pressure problems
during the race. The problem got worse and worse, so I had
to do an extra pitstop and try and recover fuel pressure,
but it didn’t work, so the team called me in before
things got worse. I think it is easy to understand why I am
not happy with today’s result.
Sam Michael, Technical Director: Nico had
a good race and scored another three points for the team.
Alex suffered from a fuel pressure problem which we attempted
to cure by changing his strategy from a one stop to a two
stop and over-fuelling the car, but it didn’t fix the
problem and we decided to retire him rather than risk an engine
failure.
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, BELGUM
44 Laps: 308.176KMS, 191.500 MILES
SCATTERED CLOUD
Air 21-220C, Track 32-380C
POS DRIVER TEAM Time / Gap (Fastest Lap) Grid
1 K RAIKKONEN FERRARI 1:20:39.066 (1:48.095, 2nd) 1
2 F MASSA FERRARI +4.695 (1:48.036, 1st) 2
3 F ALONSO McLAREN +14.343 (1:48.182, 3rd) 3
6 N ROSBERG FW29-05 H186 AT&T WILLIAMS +76.876 (1:49.769,
9th) 5
DNF A WURZ FW29-03 H177 AT&T WILLIAMS - 15
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