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[muninnhuginn]

And where is Juan-Pablo?

All info courtesy of The Japan Times.

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10th

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

He set the 10th fastest time in Friday's first qualifying session (I stayed up and watched it even thought it was a work day, and I'll be up watching the "real" qualifying tonight, anyone that wants to phone during the qualifying and chat is welcome to!

A better question is "where were the Williams?" and "Where were the Jordans?", and most definitely "Where were the Jags?"

A way of valuing each team might be as follows, add their positions for the two drivers, this gives the following values

Ferrari 1+4 = 5
McLaren 2+6 = 8
BAR 3+5 = 8
Three teams take the top six spaces, but did you think it would be BAR in third?
Renault 7+9 = 16
Toyota 8+11 = 19
Sauber 12+13 = 25
Six teams would take the top 12 spaces and it's only Ralph that spoils it by dropping Williams down to seventh

Williams 10+16 = 26

Jordan 14+17 = 31
Jaguar 15+19 = 34
Minardi 18+20 = 38

Notice that (ignoring Williams) if you just take the fastest driver from each team, then the teams are still in the same order! And if you leave out R.Schumacher, then if you take the slowest driver on each team, then the teams are nearly in the same order (BAR and McLaren swop places)

Re: 10th

[muninnhuginn]

Finally caught up with "real" qualifying, tho' possibly the fact that I was sewing elastic onto ballet shoes at the same times indicates the amount of excitement it generated. Nah, that's not entirely fair: Kimi's performance was, well, interesting. BAR didn't live up to their initial, unexpected promise. But, yeah, Jordan, who were so hot a couple of seasons ago have somehow lost their edge. And Williams? At least J-P woke up for the second session.

Still debating with myself as to whether or not to stay up tonight. Exhaustion tomorrow versus the inevitable battle over TV viewing. (Don't have kids: they take over the remote control.) Last night, even with a gripping novel to keep me reading until about 1 a.m., I crashed, mainly due to the complete loss of the ability to focus in one eye.