Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps
1 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 2:00.797 17
2 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 2:01.567 0.770 7
3 11 Robert Kubica Renault 2:02.081 1.284 14
4 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 2:02.450 1.653 11
5 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 2:02.646 1.849 14
6 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 2:02.913 2.116 6
7 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 2:02.926 2.129 11
8 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 2:03.401 2.604 17
9 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 2:03.424 2.627 7
10 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 2:03.489 2.692 9
11 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 2:03.601 2.804 17
12 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 2:03.649 2.852 17
13 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 2:03.654 2.857 6
14 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 2:03.851 3.054 17
15 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 2:04.145 3.348 12
16 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 2:04.250 3.453 16
17 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 2:04.690 3.893 15
18 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 2:05.680 4.883 6
19 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 2:05.697 4.900 18
20 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 2:06.695 5.898 14
21 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 2:07.189 6.392 15
22 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 2:07.737 6.940 13
23 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 2:07.955 7.158 15
24 20 Sakon Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 2:10.507 9.710 18
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired Gap Laps
1 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:49.032
2 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:49.157 0.125
3 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:49.248 0.216
4 11 Robert Kubica Renault 1:49.282 0.250
5 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:49.588 0.556
6 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:49.689 0.657
7 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:49.755 0.723
8 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:50.081 1.049
9 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:50.128 1.096
10 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 1:50.200 1.168
11 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:50.251 1.219
12 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 1:50.341 1.309
13 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 1:50.382 1.350
14 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:50.682 1.650
15 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:50.831 1.799
16 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:51.520 2.488
17 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:51.523 2.491
18 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:51.636 2.604
19 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:53.480 4.448
20 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:53.639 4.607
21 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:54.325 5.293
22 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:55.751 6.719
23 20 Sakon Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 1:56.039 7.007
24 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 2:03.179 14.147
Pos Driver Teams Time
1 M Webber (AUS) Red Bull 1'45.778
2 LC Hamilton (GBR) McLaren 1'45.863
3 R Kubica (POL) Renault 1'46.100
4 S Vettel (GER) Red Bull 1'46.127
5 J Button (GBR) McLaren 1'46.206
6 F Massa (BRA) Ferrari 1'46.314
7 RG Barrichello (BRA) Williams 1'46.602
8 A Sutil (GER) Force India 1'46.659
9 N Hülkenberg (GER) Williams 1'47.053
10 F Alonso (ESP) Ferrari 1'47.441
11 M Schumacher (GER) Mercedes 1'47.874
12 N Rosberg (GER) Mercedes 1'47.885
13 J Alguersuari (ESP) Toro Rosso 1'48.267
14 V Liuzzi (ITA) Force India 1'48.680
15 S Buemi (SUI) Toro Rosso 1'49.209
16 H Kovalainen (FIN) Lotus 1'50.980
17 T Glock (GER) Virgin 1'52.049
18 J Trulli (ITA) Lotus 2'01.491
19 K Kobayashi (JPN) BMW Sauber 2'02.284
20 B Senna (BRA) HRT F1 2'03.612
21 S Yamamoto (JPN) HRT F1 2'03.941
22 PM de la Rosa (ESP) BMW Sauber 2'05.294
23 L di Grassi (BRA) Virgin 2'18.754
24 V Petrov (RUS) Renault -
Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium 29th August 2010
The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa lived up to all expectations and produced an incident packed race that saw Lotus Racing again finish ahead of their nearest rivals. Heikki Kovalainen recovered from a slow start to finish 16th, and Jarno Trulli crossed the line in 19th, a spin late on dropping him back a few places after he had put in a very strong performance in the constantly changing weather conditions.
Heikki Kovalainen (Chassis T127-01) 16th, fastest lap 1.55.797 - lap 23, 3 stops – laps 1, 3, 33: “I had a bit of a problem at the start when the engine bogged down, and I activated the anti-stall, but I was already being passed by the time I could get up to speed. The rain had started and unfortunately I damaged my front wing in the last turn so I had to pit. We took a gamble with the inters but the rain stopped, so I had to come back in and I lost out to the group ahead of me. After that it was a question of doing the best job I could, and keeping us in with a chance of taking advantage of the rain at the end, and as it turned out we managed to pick up a few places at the end and finish 16th.”
Jarno Trulli (Chassis T127-04) 19th, fastest lap 1.55.103 – lap 24, 1 stop – lap 33: “It was pretty exciting out there, an eventful race where lots of things happened, but that’s normal for Spa! At the start I went wide to avoid Heikki and unfortunately was overtaken by a couple of other cars. After that I was struggling a bit in the early stages with my rear tyres overheating – fortunately they came back so I could started pushing and managed to pull away from the guys behind, so that was a good stint until the rain came. I had quite a big margin over my nearest competitor so I was looking pretty good, but then the safety car came out. At the restart I was following the other cars but obviously the visibility was very poor and I made a bit of an error on a high speed corner, touched the white line with the rear end of the car and it just slipped away from me, which meant I lost places. I continued, but then the race was over from there. I’m glad we got both cars home, and it’s good to see we’ve still got an advantage over our nearest rivals, so bring on Monza!”
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: “An exciting race and a typically eventful one here in Spa. Neither driver had a great start which meant we lost a few places, and Heikki had a problem when the rain started. We changed him onto intermediates, but were then a little slow in changing him back, but he drove a great race, and was quick at the end in the wet conditions, and he again brought us home best of the new teams. Jarno drove a strong race. He struggled initially with the tyres, but in the middle part of the race his pace was very strong, and it’s just a shame that he had a spin in the difficult wet conditions as it would have been nice to have had both cars finish ahead of the other new guys. But despite that, both cars finished and overall this has been a good weekend for the whole team.”
Riad Asmat, Chief Executive Officer: “I feel great. I think we achieved what we wanted to do – we got both cars home and we’re still ahead of the other new teams. It’s a bit unfortunate that Jarno spun out, but it’s all part of racing. He recovered well and I think we’ll all move on from this point and feel confident we can put in a good performance in Monza, and the remaining races. I think the team did great today and there was maximum effort involved, so well done to everyone. The rain of course threw everything out of sync, but we survived it today and we’re really happy.”
Nja, han låg på 15e plats när han snurrade. Så det är möjligt att han hade tangerat sin bästa placering i Lotus i år (han har 2 st 15e platser sedan tidigare), men å andra sidan hade han Vettel bakom sig som han kanske blivit tvungen att släppa förbi sig och då hamnat på 16e plats istället. Kovalainen har ju en 13e och två stycken 14e placeringar i år och riktigt så högt tror jag inte att Trulli hade lyckats nå i söndags!Nillet wrote:Trulli var på väg mot Lotus bästa placering i år, men snurrade och förlorade några platser.
