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[AndyD]

Good job Button! Pole in Spa is the way to go!

 

[SunhiLegend]

Wow Button was insanely fast. Koby in 2nd!

Alonso only 6th but Hamilton, Vettel and Webber finished behind.

 

[Ark]

Hamilton choked, Alonso must be happy.

 

[Psychotext]

Amazing job by Button, yay @ Kobibashi.

I wonder if race pace will work out similar or if qualifying is largely down to the strength of their DRS.

 

[AmaterasuOkami076]

50% happy for kobayashi, 50% worried because hes next to maldonado

This soo much. Kobayashi deserves a clean start tomorrow.

 

[nny]

First McLaren pole for Button? I'm happy for him.

Omedetou Koba!

 

[Adam Scott Aukerman]

Great grid to come back to.

 

[BrokenSymmetry]

Congrats Jenson. Great comeback.

 

[mclem]

The start tomorrow is going to be unmissable. Lots of championship contenders low down and wanting to push high, and a couple of drivers high up who have a reputation for showing no quarter to overtakers... admittedly some being a bit less gentlemanly about it than others.

 

[G-Unit]

Fuck you lolcedes

 

[chrislowe]

I tought alonso was going to be on pole, and kimi 2nd. i got owned!.

great lap from Button!

 

[Dilly]

To be honest, Maldonado deserves the Williams seat more than Senna.

 

[McNum]

I love this season. It's so crazy. The race tomorrow will be interesting to watch.

 

[brotkasten]

This top 10 makes no sense.

Just to write it out.

P1 Jenson Button - 7th in the standings
P2 Kamui Kobayashi - 10th
P3 Pastor Maldonado - 11th
P4 Kimi Raikkonen - 5th
P5 Sergio Perez - 9th
P6 Fernando Alonso - 1st
P7 Mark Webber - 2nd
P8 Lewis Hamilton - 4th
P9 Romain Grosjean - 8th
P10 Paul Di Resta - 13th

I don't know what is going on here, but I like it. It's insane.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[pants]

Koba gotta go fast!

 

[Stronghammer22]

Man, the break has really mixed things up. I never expected Button to even be close to pole, but he killed it. Sauber are looking great, glad I switched to them in F1RM.

 

[Dilly]

Just to write it out.

P1 Jenson Button - 7th in the standings
P2 Kamui Kobayashi - 10th
P3 Pastor Maldonado - 11th
P4 Kimi Raikkonen - 5th
P5 Sergio Perez - 9th
P6 Fernando Alonso - 1st
P7 Mark Webber - 2nd
P8 Lewis Hamilton - 4th
P9 Romain Grosjean - 8th
P10 Paul Di Resta - 13th

I don't know what is going on here, but I like it. It's insane.

And Webber also has a 5-place penalty.

 

[brotkasten]

Ferrari with the one try once again, because it worked out so great all the other times.

Seriously now, this is going to cost them the championship.

 

[Joseph Merrick]

SUPERKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LTWheels]

Good work Button!

 

[nny]

The first 7 spots have 6 different teams; the repeating team in this bunch? Sauber. What a season!

 

[BrokenSymmetry]

"Koba's eyes on Jenson's gearbox". Does the BBC read The F1 Slate ?

 

[Juicy Bob]

Kobayashi P2?!?!

 

[KillerMan91]

Another weird top 10 this season =D. Well even though Kimi did not have the best possible last qualifying lap fourth place is pretty great if lotus has the same race pace as usual.

 

[AAequal]

Can't wait to see Kobi fail. I don't even know why I hate the guy but I love to see him fail.

 

[Pepto]

At least no one won that pole position bet on f1rm.

 

[moojito]

Would love to see Kobayashi on the podium. He seems like a genuinely nice dude. Also, chrome flagged up a spelling error when I typed "Kobayahi" by mistake, so clearly he has the support of google.

 

[olore]

Kobayashi-GAF, this is your moment.


Could Lewis get in trouble for that pit manouver?

 

[Risgroo]

Prupose is gonna take out Jenson tomorrow :/

 

[Adamm]

Prupose is gonna take out Jenson tomorrow :/

And Koba, then not take any blame.

Its the Maldonado way

 

[Ark]

Could Lewis get in trouble for that pit manouver?

Shouldn't do, Perez was clearly going much slower than the pit-lane limit during the closing stages of Q3.

 

[Cigol]

Did Lewis say Jenson has the new wing and he has the old? Missed that.

 

[mclem]

Webber being sneaky? Mentions how there's differences between, say, Lewis and Jenson's performance today, and then says "Yeah, there's some other teams where there's a big discrepancy"

 

[brotkasten]

And Webber also has a 5-place penalty.

Makes me sad, but this is Spa. he can fight his way back and he did great last year.

 

[brotkasten]

Holy shit, please gif that Kobayashi-Button look!

 

[mclem]

Wow. First ever front row for a Japanese driver. Kobayashi seemed pleasantly surprised by that!

 

[D_prOdigy]

Kamui's English has actually improved a tiny bit.

 

[Risk Breaker]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck, I always miss the saturday after the break!

And the best shit happens whenever I miss it. Fuck

 

[CurlySaysX]

King Kobayashi!!!
Hopefully he warms his tyres on the warm up lap tomorrow and leaves Button in his dust.

 

[brotkasten]

And Koba, then not take any blame.

Don't worry, people in this thread will blame Kobayashi. It happened last year ...

 

[BrokenSymmetry]

Jenson looks so smooth on his lap.

 

[mclem]

Don't worry, people in this thread will blame Kobayashi. It happened last year ...

While it's fair to say that Kobayashi is occasionally a bit forceful and reckless, as far as I'm aware it remains fair - there's still an order of magnitude between that and what Maldonado's capable of.

 

[Lach]

Haha Koba's reaction to the note of him being the first japanese starting on front row.

Hope Sauber can capitalize those grid places. They can catch up to Mercedes and enlargen the gap to Force India.

I've traded Grosjean for Hamilton. Kinda regret that choice now.

 

[SunhiLegend]

 

[mclem]

Wait up. Tomorrow we get Eddie, Jake and DC taking a road trip in a touring coach to Spa?

That's... borderline Top Gear level of silliness.

 

[Timbuktu]

Wow. Was distracted from F1 news during the break with tall the Olympics and stuff. That grid...what on earth happened? I watched q2 and 3 but just don't understand what i saw.

 

[bud23]

Just to write it out.

P1 Jenson Button - 7th in the standings
P2 Kamui Kobayashi - 10th
P3 Pastor Maldonado - 11th
P4 Kimi Raikkonen - 5th
P5 Sergio Perez - 9th
P6 Fernando Alonso - 1st
P7 Mark Webber - 2nd
P8 Lewis Hamilton - 4th
P9 Romain Grosjean - 8th
P10 Paul Di Resta - 13th

I don't know what is going on here, but I like it. It's insane.

Alonso should be a happy man right now

 

[Ark]

Did Lewis say Jenson has the new wing and he has the old? Missed that.

Yup. Hamilton elected for the old parts as he often does, and as it often happens, they're slower than the new parts. He's losing 0.4 tenths on the straight alone to Button.

 

[Salacious Crumb]

On board vid of Jenson's pole lap with no commentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mP3iJ9e4qQ

Lets see how quickly it'll get taken down.