The Briton Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) signed Saturday in Melbourne the 50th pole position of his Formula 1 career, after a very disappointing session qualifications because of a new format decided this winter.
the first line will be 100% Mercedes, often as last year, with Nico Rosberg alongside triple world champion title, and the second line Ferrari 100%, as might be expected given winter testing in Barcelona, with Sebastian Vettel ahead of Kimi Raikkonen.
the new qualifying format, decided in a hurry at the end of winter by the strategic Group of F1, then approved by the Board World of the automobile Federation (FIA), has prompted most drivers, two of the Scuderia, not to fight for the pole position.
the goal was to save tires for Sunday’s race, the Mercedes seemingly untouchable. Worse, the new format, eliminating every 90 seconds pilots who were in the process of improving their best lap, like Romain Grosjean (Haas) in Q1, was unanimously against him unleashed and social networks.
“It will take the F1 apologizes to fans,” said Christian Horner, Team Principal of Red Bull Racing, to sum up the general feeling of waste: for several months, critics F1 never addressed the qualifications but on its governance and unequal distribution of commercial revenues.
at four minutes from the end of Q3, Vettel and Raikkonen went out of their car and went be weighed, watched cameramen. Rosberg then did not even try to beat Hamilton, author of a best lap of 1: 23,837, the average of 227.713 km / h. Or 360 thousandths better than his favorite teammate and rival for two years.
The Dutchman Max Verstappen, 18 and revelation of last season, was the author of the performance of the day driving his Toro Rosso motor Ferrari: 5th place on the grid behind the untouchable Mercedes and Ferrari. He will start alongside Brazilian Felipe Massa in the best of the two Williams to Mercedes engine
-. Kvyat and Grosjean, the first victims –
“I’ve done some pretty sexy single” , reacted Hamilton hot. It has only two monsters of F1 before him the list of “poles”: Michael Schumacher (68) and Ayrton Senna (65). He also took care to thank his team, as usual.
According to prognoses, and without the new qualifying format does not create any suspense embryo, instead, the first eliminated were the Manor (formerly Marussia) and Sauber, accompanied debutantes of the American team Haas, including the French Romain Grosjean: “I do not like this format,” he soberly said former Lotus driver
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the first branded victim was a Red Bull driver, Russian Daniil Kvyat, eliminated in Q1 without being able to defend his chances, because the clock was spinning and the ax that fell, every 90 seconds: “I ‘ do not know what happened, but it is not great to start the season like this. we need to learn the lessons of that day “without specifying whether he meant him personally or evoked the new qualifying format. Probably both
03/19/2016 9:17:49. – Melbourne (AFP) – AFP © 2016
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