Rosberg subsequently made it clear that he sees the start as the perfect opportunity to seize the advantage, as he sets his sights on an eight straight victory, dating back to last year. “I’ve been working on the starts,” Hamilton commented after qualifying. The task now is for Hamilton to get off the line cleanly, something he failed to do in both Australia and Bahrain. Obviously, I didn’t get to compete over the last two qualifying sessions.” This is now three out of three for me so I'm pretty happy. The guys back at the factory have been working so hard over the last two weeks really trying to rectify the problems we have. “Obviously Nico has been really strong all weekend so it was crucial that bit by bit I have been really trying to bring the pace together. “Very very happy with getting the lap.,” Hamilton said in the post-qualifying press conference. But with this performance he now has three pole positions for the season, following his efforts to start the year in Australia and Bahrain. He was also bested by his teammate through all three practice sessions in Barcelona. Engine problems led to the three-time world champion starting a long way down the grid in both China and Russia, and unable to get the better of Rosberg on race day. It is Hamilton who will lead the way off the grid on Sunday thanks to a superb response to a trying few weeks. Ferrari were left to settle for fifth and sixth. It was a also a day to savor for Red Bull, who locked up the front row of the grid, with Daniel Ricciardo just getting the better of new teammate Max Verstappen. Hamilton came into the weekend trailing Rosberg by 43 points in the drivers’ standings, after the German took victory in the first four races of the season.īut he set a supreme final flying lap in Saturday’s qualifying to get the better of Rosberg by 0.280 seconds.
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Tweaks to the rule regarding track limits, after controversies about drivers going beyond the lines demarcating the edge of the circuit, will include a requirement for drivers to "make every reasonable effort to use the track at all times and may not deliberately leave the track without a justifiable reason".Īnd a change has been made to engines for next season to try to make them louder, following criticisms that the new turbo hybrid engines are too quiet.Lewis Hamilton made a powerful statement that he is ready to strike back in the Formula 1 title battle by beating Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg to pole position at the Spanish Grand Prix. The season ends in Abu Dhabi on 27 November as originally scheduled. In other notable changes, the new European Grand Prix in the Azerbaijani capital Baku will be on 19 June, a week after the Canadian race in Montreal.
The latest provisional 2016 F1 calendar is as follows:Īnd a mid-season break of four weeks has been reintroduced after a decision to cut it to three was criticised by teams, saying it would make the workload on mechanics intolerable. Singapore organisers objected to the races being back-to-back because they felt it would negatively affect their event to have another race so close geographically on the following weekend.
The list also sees a date change for Malaysia, moving it two weeks apart from the Singapore race with which it had originally been twinned. The revised schedule for what was described as an "updated provisional calendar" - suggesting there could be further changes at a later date - was released following a meeting of F1's legislative body, the world motorsport council of governing body the FIA, on Wednesday. But teams complained about the compressed schedule caused by trying to cram in a record 21 races.Īustralia will be followed by Bahrain, China and Russia at two-week intervals, with the British Grand Prix on 10 July.
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