Calife before the qualifying !
Felipe Massa dances while the Brawn GP are sleeping. Toyota finds back the smile by completing the top 3. Before the qualifying, some teams tease each other and certains hide. It's the game ! Let us return on this saturday morning in Istanbul.
Climatic conditions : sun, T. air : 27°C ; T. track : 38-43°C ; rate of humidity : 31-33 % and speed of wind : 2 m.s (south-west)
Felipe Massa signs the best time of the weekend (1’27’’983). There are three groups in this classification : the leader in 1’27, the fourteen following in 1’28 and the five last ones in 1’29. The Toy boys outstrip Kazuki Nakajima. The japanese driver tears away the fourth place in his last fast lap. Robert Kubiça is fifth. It's nine positions better than his team-mate. Brawn GP are shy but its answer is waited for 2 pm (6th and 7th : advantage for Barrichello). Nico Rosberg, Kimi Räikkönen and Sebastian Vettel close the walking of top 10. The hero of Shanghaï is the Red Bull's knight rescuer. His partners seem lost somewhere in the bottom of the board (Webber : 14th and the Seb of Faenza : 17th and 18th). Nelson Piquet Jr, eleventh, was among the top 5 during the thirty minutes which he participated. The Silver arrows are in retreat on this morning (LH : 12th and Kovalainen : 15th). Adrian Sutil has to be satisfied of the sixtenth place. Fernando Alonso occupies the nineteenth rank. Giancarlo Fisichella is the good last one.