Nico Rosberg has achieved the pole position of the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim-Baden Württemberg circuit. His teammate has suffered brake problems and only finished 16th. Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa followed the driver of Mercedes in the first three places.

 

Q1

With 32°C in the atmosphere and 55°C on the track, qualifying session of the German Grand Prix has started with Jules Bianchi as the first to appear in the track.

Immediately the drivers with Mercedes engine led the session with Hamilton and Bottas in the top positions, unlike the local driver, Nico Rosberg who went off the track. But the went off of the track most important has been by Lewis Hamilton who suffered a spin in the stadium area. The British complained of brake problems, which have made impact his car against the protections of curve 13 in a violently way. This fact caused the red flag.

After thus, Nico Rosberg immediately made a time to enter in Q2. Drivers have started the fight for the access to the next qualifying session which would cause that the Red Bull’s drivers were forced to use the super soft tyres like Ferrari.

Finally, Sutil, Bianchi, Maldonado, Kobayashi, Chilton and Ericsson have been eliminated.

 

Q2

Rosberg and Williams have led the Q2 where the pilots have tried to do the minimum possible laps due to the tire degradation and therefore everything has been decided in the last seconds of the session.

Finally the eliminated drivers have been: Button, Räikkönen, Vergne, Gutierrez, Grosjean and Hamilton.

 

Q3

The final fight for the pole position was between Rosberg and Williams drivers. The German managed to be the first to go down the 1min17sec in the session during their first fastest lap. The time were unbeatable by Valtteri Bottas and neither would improve the Mercedes lap time.

 

Results:

 

Pos. Car Driver Team Laps Time
1 6 Nico Rosberg GER Mercedes 17 1:16,540
2 77 Valtteri Bottas FIN Williams – Mercedes 15 1:16,759
3 19 Felipe Massa BRA Williams – Mercedes 21 1:17,078
4 20 Kevin Magnussen DAN McLaren – Mercedes 17 1:17,214
5 3 Daniel Ricciardo AUS Red Bull Racing – Renault 19 1:17,273
6 1 Sebastian Vettel GER Red Bull Racing – Renault 16 1:17,577
7 14 Fernando Alonso SPA Ferrari 19 1:17,649
8 26 Daniil Kvyat RUS Toro Rosso – Renault 22 1:17,965
9 27 Nico Hülkenberg GER Force India – Mercedes 21 1:18,014
10 11 Sergio Pérez MEX Force India – Mercedes 21 1:18,035
11 22 Jenson Button GBR McLaren – Mercedes 15 1:18,193
12 7 Kimi Räikkönen FIN Ferrari 13 1:18,273
13 25 Jean-Eric Vergne FRA Toro Rosso – Renault 14 1:18,285
14 21 Esteban Gutiérrez MEX Sauber – Ferrari 14 1:18,787
15 8 Romain Grosjean FRA Lotus – Renault 14 1:18,983
16 44 Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes 5 No Time
17 99 Adrian Sutil GER Sauber – Ferrari 8 1:19,142
18 17 Jules Bianchi FRA Marussia –  Ferrari 8 1:19,676
19 13 Pastor Maldonado VEN Lotus – Renault 7 1:20,195
20 10 Kamui Kobayashi JAP Caterham – Renault 7 1:20,408
21 4 Max Chilton GBR Marussia –  Ferrari 9 1:20,489
9 Marcus Ericsson SWE Caterham – Renault 0 No Time

 

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