GERMAN GRAND PRIX - QUALIFYING
SATURDAY 19 JULY, 2008
Today’s qualifying outcome has set the AT&T Williams
team a tough challenge for tomorrow’s German GP at Hockenheim.
Nico Rosberg progressed to Q2 and will line up for tomorrow’s
race in P13, while Kazuki Nakajima just failed to make the
cut in an extremely tight Q1 and consequently will start tomorrow
in sixteenth place. In eighteen starts so far this year, the
drivers have bettered their qualifying position on eleven
occasions and there will be a clear ambition to achieve this
in tomorrow’s race and hunt for valuable points in the
process.
Nico Rosberg: It was all pretty close today
and we had a good chance to make it into the top ten but it
just didn’t play out that way in the end. Nevertheless,
I am still quite happy with the improvements in our car and
we have taken a step forward. Out on track today it was a
bit difficult, especially during my last runs because we had
changeable conditions, with the wind intensity and direction
constantly variable, which seemed to affect the car. Let’s
hope that tomorrow we can have a good race and score some
points, which from P13 is a real possibility.
Kazuki Nakajima: Unfortunately today I don’t
think I managed to get everything out of the car in the last
lap, especially in sector three where I realised I was being
too conservative. Because it was so tight at the end of Q1
today, it cost me quite badly, but with every lap, the feeling
I have with the car is improving, so hopefully I will have
a better race.
Sam Michael, Technical Director: We are
where we expected to be after the pre-GP test and the practice
sessions here. The grid is exceptionally close and being on
the bottom end of that tight pack means it will be a difficult
race. We had no mechanical issues with the cars today. We
will turn our attention to the race and see what we might
be able to get out of it with a good strategy tomorrow.
Hockenheim, Germany
4.574kms / 2.842 miles
WEATHER: Broken cloud
Air: 24 - 250C, Track: 29 - 350C
POS DRIVER TEAM Q1 Q2 Q3
1 L Hamilton McLaren - - 1:15.666
2 F Massa Ferrari - - 1:15.859
3 H Kovalainen McLaren - - 1:16.143
13 N Rosberg FW30 05–H339 AT&T WILLIAMS 1:15.863
(9th) 1:15.633 -
16 K Nakajima FW30 04-H338 AT&T WILLIAMS 1:16.083 - -
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