This was Sky’s first season covering Formula One and, excitingly, this was the first archive that showed their entire build-up coverage. As touched on during Part 4: China, the broadcasting rights were shared between Sky and the BBC. The archive of this race was of the full Sky Sports broadcast. Vettel’s celebratory index finger returned for qualifying once again.

However, this was a great opportunity for a double points score for the team, who were eighth in the Constructors’ Standings on 28 points. He felt he could have been as high as fifth but for a mistake during his last attempt. The Scot was disappointed with his 10th place. Nico Rosberg was in sixth, but behind him in seventh, eighth and 10th was Kamui Kobayashi and the Force India pair of Nico Hulkenberg and Paul di Resta. With Webber, Massa, Schumacher and Alonso all missing out, this meant that there were some surprising names inside the top 10. There were just three tenths between first and 13th - highlighting how impressive Vettel’s pole time was. Schumacher missed out in a very close Q2 session. Webber had a technical issue, his DRS wasn’t working at all and that cost him enough time to leave him down in 19th. Mark Webber and Michael Schumacher were two other high profile names that failed to perform. He managed a top 10 finish but could only get as high as ninth, his best Saturday result since Bahrain. Jenson Button complained of oversteer on his McLaren and struggled in qualifying again. The conventional wisdom was that they were due to win at some point, and qualifying this high up the grid gave them a great opportunity to do that here. There was a lot of expectation around Lotus, they had shown great race pace in the Friday simulations and in the last few races. Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen were fourth and fifth. This Williams seemed to enjoy the extreme temperatures. He was quick in the warm weather of Catalunya and he repeated that pace with a third place in Valencia. Pastor Maldonado was the big performer on Saturday. This left Alonso in 11th at his second home race of the season. They opted to try to preserve a set of Soft tyres for the race, but their Q2 runs weren’t quick enough. In fact, Ferrari had a disastrous qualifying in front of the head boss Luca Di Montezemelo. Only three points separated the two in the championship and it was only three tenths in the difference between them on the very hot Valencia street circuit.įernando Alonso did not repeat his third place from Montreal. Sebastian Vettel took a second pole position in a row, and once again Lewis Hamilton was right behind in second.

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