Formula 1 Jam

Jenson Button put up a scorcher of a lap with hardly 2 min left on the clock to seal his career’s first pole. He will have to watch out for the two hot starting Renaults who will be right behind him. Fisichella tipped Alonso to take second and push the Spaniard to 3rd at the very end of the final session. Kimi and Montoya will lineup behind the Renaults in 4th and 5th place respectively.

The two major shockers of the day was Rubens getting cut in the first session of qualification and Michael Schumacher being cut in the 2nd session. Rubens will start from 17th and Michael will start from 10th(Villeneuve who qualified 9th will move to 19th thanks to the penalty of changing the engine.)

As for predictions… firstly Michael, I find it hard to believe that the Ferrari was so slow… I smell strategy, he will now start with an unknown amount of fuel and that is great as he can top-up and out last most of the other top runners and then use the pitstops to gain track position… This is great save one detail, If it rains(in the middle before his first pitstop) MSc is pretty much screwed… he will then have to pit before time and will lose a lot of advantage. Again if it rains it gets really hard to predict the results…

My prediction for the race…
1) Fernando Alonso
2) Giancarlo Fisichella
3) Kimi Raikkonen(or Michael Schumacher)

Qualification Results

Pos  	Driver  		Team  	 	  First     Second    Third
1 	Jenson Button 		Honda 		  1:28.081  1:26.337  1:25.229
2 	Giancarlo Fisichella 	Renault 	  1:27.765  1:26.196  1:25.635
3 	Fernando Alonso 	Renault 	  1:28.569  1:25.729  1:25.778
4 	Kimi Räikkönen 		McLaren-Mercedes  1:27.193  1:26.161  1:25.822
5 	Juan Pablo Montoya 	McLaren-Mercedes  1:27.079  1:25.902  1:25.976
6 	Ralf Schumacher 	Toyota 		  1:28.007  1:26.596  1:26.612
7 	Mark Webber 		Williams-Cosworth 1:27.669  1:26.075  1:26.937
8 	Nick Heidfeld 		Sauber-BMW 	  1:27.796  1:26.014  1:27.579
9 	Jacques Villeneuve 	Sauber-BMW 	  1:28.460  1:26.714  1:29.239
10 	Jarno Trulli 		Toyota 		  1:27.748  1:26.327
11 	Michael Schumacher 	Ferrari 	  1:28.228  1:26.718
12 	David Coulthard 	RBR-Ferrari 	  1:28.408  1:27.023
13 	Vitantonio Liuzzi 	STR-Cosworth 	  1:28.999  1:27.219
14 	Christian Klien 	RBR-Ferrari 	  1:28.757  1:27.591
15 	Nico Rosberg 		Williams-Cosworth 1:28.351  1:29.422
16 	Felipe Massa 		Ferrari 	  1:28.868
17 	Rubens Barrichello 	Honda 		  1:29.943
18 	Christijan Albers 	MF1-Toyota 	  1:30.226
19 	Scott Speed 		STR-Cosworth 	  1:30.426
20 	Tiago Monteiro 		MF1-Toyota 	  1:30.709
21 	Takuma Sato 		Super Aguri-Honda 1:32.279
22 	Yuji Ide 		Super Aguri-Honda 1:36.164

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Giancarlo Fisichella put his Renault on pole in the Malaysian Grand Prix with a super quick time of 1:33.840. Button followed closely behind and Rookie Nico Roseberg giving Williams a lot to cheer by quaifying in the top of the second row.

Michael Schumacher recieved a setback before qualification blowing up his engine and costing him 10 grid places. Massa did a double change by blowing one more Ferrari engine in practice(he lost one in Bahrain). Coulthart made it a perfect pattern blowing the 3rd Ferrari engine of the weekend(that too before qualification).

Massa qualified 16 after not setting a time in the second session. Coulthart surprized everyone with a P3 time in session 1 but got knocked out of session 2. He looked to be going fast when the time ran out with 2 corners to go. Schumi out qualified Kimi and Alonso to be placed 4th he will start the GP from 13th(considering Ralf will now change an engine). Ralf blew his engine after setting the fastest session 2 time and could not get a car in time for the 3rd session he will start in 20th. This seems like a bad weekend for Ferrari engines.

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