Official 2011 Malaysian GP Banter Thread
Apr 8, 2011 | 06:14 AM
#22
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Webber's time is about 3 seconds off of last year's P1 times. Last year's times as a whole are pretty tainted due to the weather, so the fastest time last year was in P3 (Mark Webber - 1:33.542) instead of Q3. There's no way to know what the true qualifying times would have been since it rained throughout that Q-session. The fastest lap during the race was Webber also (1:37.054), but fastest race laps are quite a bit slower than the fastest qualifying laps. If you compare the practice times to the qualifying times from the Australian GP, the fastest Q-time was a full second faster than the fastest P-time, so with that same logic I'm guesstimating we'll see laps below 1:32 in qualifying if the weather holds up. There's no reason these cars shouldn't be quicker than they were last year. 
Apr 8, 2011 | 10:11 AM
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Webber's time is about 3 seconds off of last year's P1 times. Last year's times as a whole are pretty tainted due to the weather, so the fastest time last year was in P3 (Mark Webber - 1:33.542) instead of Q3. There's no way to know what the true qualifying times would have been since it rained throughout that Q-session. The fastest lap during the race was Webber also (1:37.054), but fastest race laps are quite a bit slower than the fastest qualifying laps. If you compare the practice times to the qualifying times from the Australian GP, the fastest Q-time was a full second faster than the fastest P-time, so with that same logic I'm guesstimating we'll see laps below 1:32 in qualifying if the weather holds up. There's no reason these cars shouldn't be quicker than they were last year.
