By Sam Cooper
March 17 2007

Spains Fernando Alonso managed to put his car on the grid 2nd, looking to have some slight handling problems with the car, Lewis on the other hand upstaged many of his more experienced drivers finishing his first qualifying session an impressive 4th.

In the first session Lewis was blisteringly quick until the Ferraris came out although still after that he was under 5 hundredths of a second slower than the Ferrari’s, things are looking good so far for Lewis. Obviously he would of wanted to get pole, but to do that on his first session would have been a superhuman effort, 4th is very encouraging for the young brit.

Being out paced by rookie Lewis is not one of the best things to happen to you, especially if you’re a reigning double world champion Fernando Alonso. Saying that though, Fernando too posted some super quick times round the Albert Park circuit, in qualifying 2 he used up another set of Bridgestone’s soft tyres just to beat the young brit.

Experience showed however in the third pole position session shoot out, as Fernando bettered Lewis by such a small margin that you could say that Lewis and Fernando are on the same line of pace, that is incredibly impressive for the young brit, and I wish both Lewis and Fernando the best of luck for the race tomorrow.

Quallfing times are shown below

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time
1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:26.072
2	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	1:26.493
3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW	1:26.556
4	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1:26.755
5	Robert Kubica	BMW	1:27.347
6	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:27.634
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull	1:27.934
8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:28.404
9	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:28.692
10	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	1:28.871
11	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri	1:26.909
12	Nico Rosberg	Williams	1:26.914
13	Hekki Kovalainen	Renault	1:26.964
14	Jenson Button	Honda	1:27.264
15	Alexander Wurz	Williams	1:27.393
16	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:26.712
17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:27.596
18	Scott Speed	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:28.305
19	David Coulthard	Red Bull	1:28.579
20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:29.267
21	Adrian Sutil	Spyker F1	1:29.339
22	Christian Albers	Spyker F1	1:31.932

 

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