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F1, Mercedes is back: Rosberg takes pole for Hamilton. Vettel 4th – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published September 26, 2015 at 10:19.

The Mercedes dominate the qualifications of the GP of Japan, the 14th round of the 2015 Formula One World scheduled for tomorrow at the Suzuka circuit. Nico Rosberg will start in front of everyone. The German Mercedes takes second pole of the season after that of Barcelona (the 17th in career), stopping the clock at 1’32 “584.

The accident Kvyat curbs the latest attempt to Hamilto
No Double mockery Lewis Hamilton: the championship leader will join his teammate in the front row for just 76 milliseconds and with a final round 36 to stop “from the end for a bad accident involving Daniil Kvyat: Russian driver Red Bull has lost control in turn, seriously damaging his car. Fortunately for him no consequence and final tenth position on the grid for him.

The chase Ferrari: Raikkonen Vettel 4th and 6th
Chasing the Mercedes Valtteri Bottas for Williams and Sebastian Vettel in a Ferrari, fourth at 661 thousandths. Third row for the other Williams of Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen’s Red, sixth and trailing by over seven tenths and a half, followed by Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull), Romain Grosjean (Lotus), Sergio Perez (Force India) and Kvyat . They had stayed out of the fight for pole Nico Hulkenberg (Force India) – eleventh time but had to pay a penalty of three positions on the grid for the incident with Massa in Singapore – Carlos Sainz (Toro Rosso), Pastor Maldonado (Lotus) Fernando Alonso (McLaren) and Max Verstappen, who even takes to the track after stopping along the track at the end of Q1 to some problems for his Toro Rosso.

In the first heat they were instead eliminated Jenson Button of McLaren, the Sauber of Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson and Marussia Will Stevens and Alexander Rossi.

Rosberg, well the car but expect tomorrow
“For us it is an important day, in this track we started going strong. For me it was an excellent day, with the soft tire I liked the car. To tell if the Mercedes is back, however, we have to wait until tomorrow. ” So Nico Rosberg commented pole speaking to Sky.

Hamilton: the Mercedes is back in front of
The team mate, Briton Lewis Hamilton, he adds: “On the first lap I lost the pole, with a mistake in curve 11. So far, however, it has been a fantastic year with regard to the pole: I do not know how I’ve done this year. I do not know what is the difference from the last race, but we are back on top. ”

Raikkonen: could do better, 3rd place possible
We knew that Mercedes would come before but I think there was an opportunity to get third. ” Is disappointed by the qualifications of the GP of Japan the Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen finished sixth in a session conditioned by the accident at the end of the Q3 Red Bull Russian Daniil Kvyat which has forced the organizers to stop prematurely qualifications. “We went pretty well overall in the first two rounds of qualifying, I did a good lap in the first attempt in Q3 but I am sure that we could improve a lot but then there was the red flag -prosegue the Finn to Sky sport-. It’s a little ‘a disappointment but it went well, but I believe that we have the speed to do better. ”

Vettel: evidence complicated, fairly happy
“We can be fairly happy. It was a practice session and complicated, only in Q3, I started accendermi. Tomorrow we will try, but we must be careful to Mercedes and Red Bull, who are going strong on the weekend. We must first look at ourselves and see how it goes tomorrow. ” He told Sky, Sebastian Vettel, commenting on the fourth fastest time in qualifying for the Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka.



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