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Round 11 - Britain, Silverstone - Qualifying Results
Pre-Qualifying Conditions: dry; track °C; air °C					Qualifying (Starting Grid) Conditions: dry; track °C; air °C
Posn	Driver	Car (Tyres)	Time	Speed/Gap	Posn	Driver	Time	Speed/Gap
1	BUTTON	BAR Honda (M)	1:18.872		1	RAIKKONEN	1:18.233
2	MASSA	Sauber Petronas (B)	1:19.317	+ 00.445s	2	BARRICHELLO	1:18.305	+ 00.072s
3	PANIS	Toyota (M)	1:19.697	+ 00.825s	3	BUTTON	1:18.580	+ 00.347s
4	PANTANO	Jordan Ford (B)	1:21.350	+ 02.478s	4	SCHUMACHER M	1:18.710	+ 00.477s
5	TRULLI	Renault (M)	1:21.496	+ 02.624s	5	TRULLI	1:18.715	+ 00.482s
6	RAIKKONEN	McLaren Mercedes (M)	1:21.639	+ 02.767s	6	ALONSO	1:18.811	+ 00.578s
7	ALONSO	Renault (M)	1:21.923	+ 03.051s	7	COULTHARD	1:19.148	+ 00.915s
8	DA MATTA	Toyota (M)	1:22.507	+ 03.635s	8	MONTOYA	1:19.378	+ 01.145s
9	BRUNI	Minardi Cosworth (B)	1:22.529	+ 03.657s	9	SATO	1:19.688	+ 01.455s
10	BAUMGARTNER	Minardi Cosworth (B)	1:23.116	+ 04.244s	10	WEBBER	1:20.004	+ 01.771s
11	COULTHARD	McLaren Mercedes (M)	1:23.521	+ 04.649s	11	MASSA	1:20.202	+ 01.969s
12	BARRICHELLO	Ferrari (B)	1:24.817	+ 05.945s	12	PANIS	1:20.335	+ 02.102s
13	SATO	BAR Honda (M)	1:28.910	+ 10.038s	13	GENE	1:20.335	+ 02.102s
14	SCHUMACHER M	Ferrari (B)	1:30.293	+ 11.421s	14	DA MATTA	1:20.545	+ 02.312s
15	MONTOYA	Williams BMW (M)	1:34.386	+ 15.514s	15	KLIEN	1:21.559	+ 03.326s
16	GENE	Williams BMW (M)	1:34.981	+ 16.109s	16	PANTANO	1:22.458	+ 04.225s
17	WEBBER	Jaguar Cosworth (M)	1:35.853	+ 16.981s	17	HEIDFELD	1:22.677	+ 04.444s
18	KLIEN	Jaguar Cosworth (M)	1:38.648	+ 19.776s	18	BRUNI	1:23.437	+ 05.204s
19	FISICHELLA	Sauber Petronas (B)	No time	-	19	BAUMGARTNER	1:24.117	+ 05.884s
20	HEIDFELD	Jordan Ford (B)	No time	-	20	FISICHELLA	No time	-
Notes: Pre-Qualifying at Silverstone was truly bizarre - and quite funny to watch from the stands! Most of the teams had weather forecasts suggesting that it would start raining half way through the main Qualifying session. In order to avoid having to qualify in the wet, pre-qualifying became a battle to see who could go slowest and therefore go out first in the second session. While a few drivers played it straight and went for a time, including Jenson Button who was fastest in pre-qualifying, most teams at least hedged their bets by having one driver go quick and one slow. The Ferrari drivers both apparently made mistakes on their flying laps, although they now tell us that was part of the "go-slow" strategy which they were trying to mask from the other teams so they didn't all get the same idea. They did, of course, and first Coulthard, then Montoya, then half the grid went flat out in the first sector (just to show they could) then eased off in the second and drove like my granny in the third! While it was a complete farce, it was also very funny. In Qualifying proper, Button almost had the last laugh when the rain never arrived (although there were some tense minutes towards the end of the session as the clouds grew ever blacker and heavier overhead), but unfortunately was unable to take the pole that the crowd so clearly wanted. Raikkonen, slower in the first two sectors, put in an absolutely stunning third sector to take pole and it's a real pleasure to see a McLaren back at the sharp end ... next step, the race! NB The following penalties were imposed which will affect the starting grid: - Panis on his slow-down lap impeded Massa and had his time deleted - Fisichella had an engine change after Friday Practice 1 and was demoted 10 places on the grid - he elected not to run in Qualifying and will therefore start at the back (or more likely from the pitlane) - Alonso, Bruni and Baumgartner had engine changes after Friday Practice 2 and were demoted 10 places on the grid As a result of these penalties, the back of the grid looks like this: 16th Alonso, 17th Panis, 18th Bruni, 19th Baumgartner, 20th Fisichella.