Formula One Grand Prix: Germany

So here we are in Germany, Michael Schumachers home event. The temperature for qualifying was around 30 degrees. This report will be based in part on the live timing archive on the Official Formula One Website.

Jarno Truili and Christijan Albers will both lose 10 places from there qualifying due to engine changes. The Super Aguri debuted their new chassis, however Yamamoto crashed in the morning practice and used the old chassis for qualifying. Scott Speed crashed out of qualifying early on which halted the session, and he recorded no time. After the first part of qualifying, Luizzi, Albers, Sato, Monterio, Yamamoto and Speed were eliminated. This means with the penalty Albers will start 22nd.
The second period of 15 minutes saw Webber elminiated again with a time 0.073 seconds slower than de la Rosa. Klien, Truili, Villeneuve, Rosberg and Heidfeld were also slower, but all improved from their 1st part times.

The final top 10 shootout started with both Ferraris and both Renaults at pit exit ready to leave. de la Rosa made contact with Ralf and gained a puncture, which forced both into the pits with Ralf being kept in the pits much longer checking suspension. Kimi was on provisional pole for much of the session, and in the last minute of the session all the cars were on track on flyers, but Kimi ran off track which ruined his lap. Alonso could only make 7th fastest, with Rubens in 6th.

Here are the qualifying times:

Pos	No	Driver	Team	First	Second	Third
1	3	Kimi Räikkönen	McLaren -Mercedes	1:15.214	1:14.410	1:14.070
2	5	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari	1:14.904	1:13.778	1:14.205
3	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:14.412	1:14.094	1:14.569
4	12	Jenson Button	Honda	1:15.869	1:14.378	1:14.862
5	2	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	1:15.916	1:14.540	1:14.894
6	11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	1:15.757	1:14.652	1:14.934
7	1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	1:15.518	1:14.746	1:15.282
8	7	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	1:15.789	1:14.743	1:15.923
9	4	Pedro de la Rosa	McLaren -Mercedes	1:15.655	1:15.021	1:15.936
10	14	David Coulthard	RBR -Ferrari	1:15.836	1:14.826	1:16.326
11	9	Mark Webber	Williams -Cosworth	1:15.719	1:15.094
12	15	Christian Klien	RBR -Ferrari	1:15.816	1:15.141
13	8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	1:15.430	1:15.150
14	17	Jacques Villeneuve	Sauber -BMW	1:16.281	1:15.329
15	10	Nico Rosberg	Williams -Cosworth	1:16.183	1:15.380
16	16	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber -BMW	1:16.234	1:15.397
17	20	Vitantonio Liuzzi	STR -Cosworth	1:16.399
18	19	Christijan Albers	MF1 -Toyota	1:17.093
19	22	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri -Honda	1:17.185
20	18	Tiago Monteiro	MF1 -Toyota	1:17.836
21	23	Sakon Yamamoto	Super Aguri -Honda	1:20.444
22	21	Scott Speed	STR -Cosworth	No Time