Formula 1 China 2016: Rosberg on pole – Hamilton Last – Motorsport-Total.com

16th April 2016 – 10:28

For Nico Rosberg it runs in the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship continues around

© xpbimages.com

(Motorsport-Total.com) – After the rainy 3rd free practice prevailed in the qualification ( way back to the old mode) for the Grand Prix of China unexpectedly nice weather. With air temperatures of around 22 degrees centigrade, the 5.451 km long Shanghai International Circuit

the pole position for the third World Championship race of the formula 1 season 2016 secured in 1: 35,402 minutes the pole position ahead of Daniel Ricciardo in the Red Bull, who as a surprise husband had only 0.515 seconds behind. Kimi Raikkonen followed in the Ferrari with 0.570 seconds off the pace in third place ahead of Sebastian Vettel, who had to settle for 0.844 seconds gap with fourth

The top 10 was completed by Valtteri Bottas (Williams; +0.894)., Sergio Perez (Force India; +1.463), Carlos Sainz (+1.479) and Max Verstappen (both Toro Rosso; +1.792). and Nico Hulkenberg

accident for Pascal Wehrlein

an early end qualifying took place due to the conditions for Pascal Wehrlein. The Formula 1 newcomer lost when accelerating on the main straight on a wet section of the control of the car, turned and beat slightly sideways into the barriers.

The German was unlucky, because at the point in question not only was wet, there is a bump and also here the DRS is activated. The impact in the crash barriers enough to distort the track, so that the Manor driver had to park his car. For the recovery of the vehicle, the race organizers had to pull out the red flags.

Hamilton must abandon

Meanwhile, Hamilton drove back to the pits, as he reported problems with his engine , For the Mercedes team, the interruption of the time trial was so handy. However, the bonus time helped not end, after another round had the champion his car without a timed lap stop in the pits. Thus the Briton as well Wehrlein requires a start-up by the race direction, but this is only a formality.

During the 20-minute break we tried with mats and a sweeper the wet spot on the start and finish something dry laying. At the end of the first qualifying pass the slowest seven drivers retired on the positions 17 to 22 from Kevin Magnussen (Renault), Esteban Gutierrez (Haas), Jolyon Palmer (Renault), Rio Haryanto (Manor), Pascal Wehrlein (Manor) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes).

Hulkenberg has a wheel from

https://twitter.com/F1/status/721247636934799360Ein premature end was the second Qualifying- part because Nico Hulkenberg caused red flags. The Force India driver lost on the formation lap his left front wheel – the likely cause the race organizers to issue a penalty. The wheel bounced luckily further off the track and not rolled on the course. The Force India driver was at this time in 10th – but which he probably expected to lose even more, because usually punishes the race organizers such incident, if not due to a technical defect

The second Qualifying-. part cemented the positions eleven to 16: Felipe Massa (Williams), Fernando Alonso and Jenson button (both McLaren), Romain Grosjean (Haas), Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr (both Sauber)

. Detailed report follows at this point shortly