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Weighing up: Valencia qualifying

This week, “He did it for you, for me, for all of us…”

Assumed knowledge is a dangerous thing, and it’s been a while, so we’ll recap: the top 10 cars ran the final part of qualifying with enough fuel to start the race tomorrow and were weighed at the end of the session. 11th down [...]

Weighing Up: Istanbul qualifying

Brawn were quick, Red Bull were wonderful in the faster corners and the Ferrari revival appeared to only be partial. Proof, if it were needed, that if you keep on making predictions for long enough you’ll eventually fluke one.

Sebastian Vettel was fastest in all three stages of qualifying on his way to pole position, just [...]

Weighing Up: Monaco Qualifying

Another weekend, another qualifying session, another Jenson Button pole position.

As usual, the FIA weighed the cars post-qualifying, all cars starting at the minimum weight limit of 605kg. The top ten were weighed after running the final part of qualifying with fuel onboard, everyone else was knocked out before the final part of qualifying and added fuel [...]

Weighing Up: Barcelona Qualifying

This week, subtitled “Lightning never strikes in the same pl…oh.” More on that in a second.

First, the weights. For the newcomers, the cars all weigh 605kg without fuel. The top 10 drivers qualified with their race fuel on board, so we can see who did the best job, and for those outside the top 10 [...]

Weighing Up: Shanghai Qualifying

Tonight’s look at relative fuel loads is, for one night only, subtitled Permission To Grin Smugly. Post-qualifying weights in kilos, and lack of weights in kilos, for the 20 starters in tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix:

1. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 644kg
2. Fernando Alonso, Renault, 637
3. Mark Webber, Red Bull, 646.5
4. Rubens Barrichello, Brawn GP, 661
5. Jenson Button, [...]

Weighing Up: Sepang Qualifying

Apparently there’s a race on this weekend. No, really.

The biggest talking point from qualifying must surely be the error of judgement that saw Felipe Massa among the first 5 drivers discarded. That Massa ended up 16th despite being less than a second away from being fastest of all is an indication of [...]

Weighing Up: Melbourne Qualifying

Is it good form to apologise for article titles at the beginning or at the end?

The weights are out – and have been for a while but some of us had sleep to catch up on – and we’ve now got a clearer idea of who’ll be doing what in today’s Australian Grand Prix. Car [...]

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