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British GP - Qualifying

10 July 2010 @ 12:00 GMT - Roger Loop McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh: "We had probably 20 upgrade parts, and we've kept six or seven on, but in truth we're probably on the back foot to Red Bull. We'll do our best to catch up this afternoon." Red Bull team principal Christian Horner: "Practice has gone pretty well for us, both drivers are pretty happy so far. [On Vettel's nose-cone problem] We did what we call a 'hot swap' between nose boxes, and one of the connections may not have locked properly, and the bump at Turn 11 may have been enough to dislodge it. Luckily we got away with it." Get Media Desk - View Video now BBC F1 commentator David Croft: "In the run-up to the Grand Prix it was all Button and Hamilton, Senna and Prost. But the analogy isn't in their relationship, it is in their driving style. Jenson likes everything set up precise and accurate so he can go out and do the best he can do. Lewis is more like Senna enjoying the raw speed and not minding the car sliding about underneath him a bit." McLaren's Jenson Button on BBC One: "This morning the car felt really good. I personally think there's something wrong, the car was undriveable. That's it really. I don't know if I've lost rear downforce since this morning, but it's pretty undriveable. This weekend has been tricky, but that wasn't normal." BBC pundit David Coulthard: "Jenson delivered all the apexes, so maybe there's been some set-up changes which haven't delivered, but clearly the car is struggling on overall downforce." Q3  InsideFerrari Fernando had some traffic in the last sector for sure he could have not made better than this position  rf1paddockpass Very nice job Robert there, who is P6, well done. fairuzfauzy Vettel on pole Webber second, Alonso 3rd, 9/10 poles for Red Bull sarahholtf1 What circuit changes? Sebastian Vettel takes pole for the second year in a row for Red Bull. He clips round Silverstone in 1:29.615 Vettel sets the fastest time again. Schumacher starts P10 Schumacher is P8 2:00 BBC pundit David Coulthard: "Jenson delivered all the apexes, so maybe there's been some set-up changes which haven't delivered, but clearly the car is struggling on overall downforce."  InsideFerrari Both drivers are back on track: this time both on soft new tyres 3:00  sarahholtf1 The first run of laps saw Alonso set the third fastest time just ahead of Hamilton  Jamesallenonf1 Ham 1st run isn't bad but he's 4/10ths slower than Alonso, but faster than Barr and Massa 5:00  InsideFerrari Fernando set the 3rd time Felipe is 7th Vettel goes fastest 6:00 Webber sets the fastest time Mercedes much happier here 8:00  rf1paddockpass A bit over 2 mins in Q3, Robert is in the garage at the moment.  tonyfernandes Good qualfying. Heikki dld well with traffic. Jarno did extremely well as he only had 12 laps all weekend. Not really our track. Happy. 10:00 BBC F1 analyst Martin Brundle: "Unless they stand on their own tails, Red Bull are going to walk this race. Their car is so planted. It's their race to lose." sarahholtf1 Button calls the car 'undriveable'. He says; "This morning the car felt good - I think something is wrong."  InsideFerrari Red Bulls look untouchable but there is a good chance for a good grid position for both drivers Felipe is going out on a set of used soft while Fernando has two sets of new available Q2 1 Australia M Webber Red Bull 2 Germany S Vettel Red Bull 3 Spain F Alonso Ferrari 4 Brazil F Massa Ferrari 5 Germany M Schumacher Mercedes 6 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes 7 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren 8 Brazil R Barrichello Williams 9 Spain P de la Rosa BMW Sauber 10 Poland R Kubica Renault 11 Germany A Sutil Force India 12 Japan K Kobayashi BMW Sauber 13 Germany N Hulkenberg Williams 14 Great Britain J Button McLaren 15 Italy V Liuzzi Force India 16 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso 17 Russia V Petrov Renault 18 Spain J Alguersuari Toro Rosso 19 Finland H Kovalainen Lotus 20 Germany T Glock Virgin 21 Italy J Trulli Lotus 22 Brazil L di Grassi Virgin 23 India K Chandhok Hispania 24 Japan S Yamamoto Hispania  InsideFerrari Three Ferrari engines in Q3 as De La Rosa set the 9th best time  clubforce Adrian will be starting tomorrow's race in P11. Tonio will start in P15. Quotes from drivers coming soon.  InsideFerrari Both drivers went in Q3, Fernando is 3rd, Felipe 4th  rf1paddockpass Robert is P10 and goes through to Q3, Vitaly is P16 sarahholtf1 That's qualifying over for the world champion - Button stays in 14th after his last run for McLaren. He won't be happy about that. BBC pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz: "McLaren have sent out both Button and Hamilton on soft tyres, the only team to do that, which shows how nervous they are about making it into Q3." BBC F1 analyst Martin Brundle: "Unless they stand on their own tails, Red Bull are going to walk this race. Their car is so planted. It's their race to lose."  sarahholtf1 Jenson has one more lap to nail it here. He's down in 14th. Hamilton is sixth.  Jamesallenonf1 #F1 Hulk badly cut up by a Force India, Hulk is way off pace of Barr. Butt under pressure, P14  rf1paddockpass Vitaly is back out for a last run in Q2 1:00  MyLotusRacing A good Qualifying session with Heikki currently in 19th and Jarno in 21st. 2:00 Jamesallenonf1 #f1 Barrichello is going really well in the Williams in P6 3:00  rf1paddockpass Vitaly is back in the garage, we are checking the car now 4:00  InsideFerrari Fernando is going out on soft And Felipe is out as well, again on soft  sarahholtf1 In danger in the drop zone are: Petrov, Buemi, Hulkenberg, Liuzzi, Kubica, Kobayashi AND Jenson Button 5:00  clubforce 1m31.199 for Adrian who is currently in 9th and 1m31.708 for Tonio who is 13th at the moment. A little over 6 minutes to go in Q2. rf1paddockpass Both drivers have completed this run. Currently Robert is 12th fastest and Vitaly 17th 6:00  InsideFerrari Good first run: Fernando is 3rd, Felipe 4th, as expected behind the Red Bulls 7:00  clubforce P5 and 1m31.199 for Adrian now who is currently ahead of Kubica  Jamesallenonf1 Webber 1m30.4, a really quick time. Button radios in that he's struggling with low grip at the rear Button has no grip at the rear 8:00  sarahholtf1 Alonso climbs to the top for Ferrari with a 1:31.019 ahead of Massa and Hamilton in Q2  rf1paddockpass Robert sets the fifth fastest at the moment with 1.31.555 9:00 Webber on hard tyres and set the fastest time. BBC F1 pundit David Coulthard: "We know McLaren are struggling a little bit, but Lewis made some little mistakes in that session, mistakes we are not used to seeing. The wind is a factor here, and it may be that the McLaren car is more affected by the wind that we realised." Jamesallenonf1 Hamilton matches his time from Q1, still using hard tyre. 11:00  rf1paddockpass Vitaly just left the garage for his first run in Q2  WilliamsF1Team Both thru Q3, now out for the start of Q2. Rubens so relaxed he spent the last 7 mins of the session in the garage! 12:00  rf1paddockpass First run in Q2 for Robert who heads out of the garage  InsideFerrari As usual, the battle for the ten places available in Q3 will be very very tight Jamesallenonf1 #f1 Lot more to come from Kubica's Renault in this session. Will McLaren get safely into Q3?  VirginRacing Must have been a glitch on the monitor as it's now showing half a second. More likely me though ;-) InsideFerrari Both drivers out: Fernando on hard again, Felipe on soft tyres Q1 1 Germany S Vettel Red Bull 2 Australia M Webber Red Bull 3 Spain F Alonso Ferrari 4 Germany A Sutil Force India 5 Great Britain L Hamilton McLaren 6 Brazil F Massa Ferrari 7 Brazil R Barrichello Williams 8 Great Britain J Button McLaren 9 Spain P de la Rosa BMW Sauber 10 Germany N Rosberg Mercedes 11 Russia V Petrov Renault 12 Poland R Kubica Renault 13 Japan K Kobayashi BMW Sauber 14 Switzerland S Buemi Toro Rosso 15 Germany M Schumacher Mercedes 16 Germany N Hulkenberg Williams 17 Italy V Liuzzi Force India 18 Spain J Alguersuari Toro Rosso 19 Finland H Kovalainen Lotus 20 Germany T Glock Virgin 21 Italy J Trulli Lotus 22 Brazil L di Grassi Virgin 23 India K Chandhok Hispania 24 Japan S Yamamoto Hispania InsideFerrari Q1 finished with the following classification: VET, WEB, ALO, SUT, HAM, MAS, BAR, BUT, DLR, ROS. Jamesallenonf1 Yamamoto is 4/10ths slower than Chandhok without any testing. Standing in for Bruno Senna this weekend  rf1paddockpass Vitaly is currently p11 and Robert p12, still a few seconds to go in Q1 1:00  VirginRacing  Timo and KOv about 4 seconds apart on track. Very close on sector times  VirginRacing Timo and KOv about 4 seconds apart on track. Very close on sector times 2:00  InsideFerrari Fernando should remain in the garage for the remaining part of Q1  VirginRacing  We are in parc fermé now so we have scrutineers with us at all times http://twitpic.com/241m48  Jamesallenonf1 Liuzzi is having another bad session, strange when the Force India car is really working for Sutil 3:00 BBC F1 analyst Martin Brundle: "I think McLaren's problem is more about suspension than aerodynamics. They run their car very stiff, and it seems to be literally bouncing off the race track."  InsideFerrari Feloipe went out again on a 2nd set of hard tyres  Jamesallenonf1 Upgrades on the Virgin car have put it ahead of the Lotus, it seems. 4:00  MikeGascoyne Same again on the second runs  VirginRacing Waiting and reflecting http://twitpic.com/241lgs  clubforce Adrian improves and does a 1m31.109 for P4 Jamesallenonf1 Sutil going well in P4, behind Vett, Webb and Alo  VirginRacing Timo out in 2 mins. It's cooler now  rf1paddockpass That was a solid first run for both Vitaly and Robert. Still over 7 minutes to go in Q1 sarahholtf1 Here they come. Webber goes top with 1:30.988 while Hamilton has a couple of wobbles and abandons his hot lap.  VirginRacing Great stuff timo. 1:34.851.  sarahholtf1 Nico Rosberg has toppled Fernando Alonso at the top of the list with a 1:31.684. No times yet from Webber and Vettel rf1paddockpass Vitaly's first run is doing well, laptime 1.32.467  VirginRacing Good to see timo and KOV trading placed at the top of te list ;-)  WilliamsF1Team Go Rubens, another top ten would be very much appreciated! http://twitpic.com/241jd7 Timo Glock for Virgin. He sets the first fastest time of 1:35.951 InsideFerrari Both Felipe and Fernando just went out for their first run, both on hard tyres BBC motorsport commentary star Murray Walker: "I was at the first Silverstone Grand Prix in 1950, and there were 120,000 people there as well, but I think this is a golden era for Formula 1. We haven't had a bad race this year - it was processional in Bahrain, but it wasn't boring, and every other race has been fantastic. My guess is Vettel will win, my hope is Webber will do very well, but watch the race, it's going to be terrific." BBC Sport's Sarah Holt at Silverstone: "There are mixed views at BBC HQ about how McLaren will fare in qualifying after ditching their new diffuser. The team have gone back to their Valencia set-up - although both Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are still running with the modified front wing - and will have been frantically trying to get the most out of testing during this morning's third practice. Eddie Jordan reckons the U-turn on the updates won't affect McLaren adversely and says it could even given them the impetus to go quicker. Martin Brundle is less sure; he says the McLarens are struggling for pace and warns one of them may not even make it even into Q3. Hamilton and Button were both struggling to ease their stiffly-sprung car over the bumpy track in practice but no driver is more motivated than they are to put on a show this weekend." Mercedes boss Ross Brawn on Michael Schumacher: "Michael is spending a lot of time working with the team discussing the areas we need to work on and improve on. He has been through tough periods in his career and knows that you can't panic but must look at things logically and put the fixes in place for the future." BBC F1 pundit Eddie Jordan: "McLaren came here with a spring in their step, thinking they would monopolise this race but that's not the case and we know that Red Bull are even quicker." BBC F1 pundit David Coulthard: "Bringing Jenson and Lewis to the same team has really split the crowd because they want to see a British winner this weekend." BBC Sport's Andrew Benson at Silverstone: "Fernando Alonso has been very clear about his ambitions for this weekend - knowing, but not yet admitting, that he has for various reasons let a significant number of points slip by this season, Ferrari's lead driver knows he needs to start scoring big in the next three races to strengthen his currently increasingly slippery foothold in the championship battle. Silverstone was not expected to be a strong race for Ferrari, but the car - particularly Alonso's - has looked to be Red Bull's biggest rival and he was just over 0.1secs off the pace in final practice. It might be a long shot, but can the Spaniard get in amongst the Red Bulls on the grid?"

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