\nAlonso 2 – 2 Massa
\nButton 4 – 0 Perez
\nRaikkonen 4 – 0 Grosjean
\nRosberg 1 – 3 Hamilton
\nHulkenberg 4 – 0 Gutierrez
\nDi Resta 3 – 1 Sutil
\nMaldonado 2 – 2 Bottas
\nVergne 1 – 3 Ricciardo
\nPic 3 – 1 Van der Garde<\/a>
\nBianchi 4 – 0 Chilton<\/p>\n
Vettel, Button, Hulkenberg and Bianchi all hold unbeaten records so far. Once again,\u00a0tyres are a major talking point and Pirelli has brought its hard and medium compounds this weekend.\u00a0The BBC reports that technical chief Pat Fry<\/a> has been taken to hospital with a kidney stone complaint, which has led to a rearrange on the Ferrari pit wall.<\/p>\n Qualifying 1<\/strong>: The usual wait that has plagued 2013 qualifying so far resumes. 5 minutes before the first cars appear on track. Daniel Ricciardo<\/a> sets the first time, a lap of 1m24.100s, this is quickly improved upon by Jean-Eric Vergne<\/a> who completes a circuit in a time of 1m23.467s. Kimi Raikkonen<\/a> knocks that down to 1m23.087s with half the session to go. With seven minutes left, Fernando Alonso<\/a> would take the fastest time to 1m22.264s only to be beaten by Nico Rosberg<\/a> who pushes it further to a 1m21.913s. Lewis Hamilton surges to the front with a time of 1m21.728s with 3 minutes left. 18 minutes in, and finally all 22 drivers have set a time. The last\u00a0section\u00a0of the session sees much on track action but cars are struggling to improve as the track is quite busy. Pastor Maldonado<\/a>, the winner of this race last year, is one on the drivers to be eliminated as both Williams cars are taken out of qualifying; Vatteri Bottas missed out on the next session by just 0.042s.<\/p>\n Qualifying 2<\/strong>: Another slight delay to the on track action again. This is so frustrating. Esteban Gutierrez<\/a> is the first person to take to the track. His impressive time of 1m22.910s is swiftly beaten by Nico Hulkenberg<\/a> and Kimi Raikkonen, the bar dropping to 1m22.210s. 8 minutes into the 15 minute session, and Fernando Alonso takes to the head of the times going around in 1m21.646s. With 6 minutes left, all 16 drivers have now posted a time. Vergne, Perez, di Resta, Sutil, Button and Ricciardo are in the drop zone. With just over a minute and a half left, Sebastian Vettel<\/a> sets the fastest time of 1m21.602s. Lewis Hamilton smashes that to go top with a 1m21,001s.\u00a0Button languishes in 1th4, 0.565s slower than Sergio Perez who\u00a0rocketed up to seventh with a lap of 1m21.790s.<\/p>\n Qualifying 3<\/strong>: The drivers in the top ten shootout then are:\u00a0Sebastian Vettel,\u00a0Mark Webber,\u00a0Fernando Alonso,\u00a0Felipe Massa<\/a>,\u00a0Sergio Perez,\u00a0Kimi Raikkonen,\u00a0Romain Grosjean<\/a>,\u00a0Nico Rosberg,\u00a0Lewis Hamilton and\u00a0Paul di Resta<\/a>. There wasn’t really a gap before the cars went out in this ten minute session. Raikkonen presents the others with the first challenge, setting an initial pole time of 1m21.539s, this is beaten by 7 tenths of a second by Nico Rosberg who posts a time of 1m20.824s. Di Resta pits the car after one lap of the circuit, setting no time. After half the session, only Rosberg, Alonso, Massa, Grosjean and Raikkonen have set a time. All 10 drivers are on track with 2 minutes of the session left, di Resta being the last man out and\u00a0therefore\u00a0will be the last man across the line. In the frantic last few seconds of qualifying,\u00a0Hamilton is two-tenths down on the pole time which was stretched further by Nico Rosberg, who is on pole with a time of 1m20.718s.<\/p>\n The grid<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Q2 cut-off time: 1m22.019s<\/b><\/p>\n (Gaps are to quickest time in Q2)<\/p>\n Q1 cut-off time: 1m23.218s<\/b><\/p>\n (Gaps are to quickest time in Q1)<\/p>\n 107% time: 1m27.448s<\/p>\n * Gap to quickest in Q1 <\/p>\n\n
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