As Seb said before we even got to Italy: “I think it won’t be easy for us, due to the long straights, but I’m sure we will do our best and keep fighting until the end.”And so it proved. While we start on rows two and three tomorrow, predictably we’re among a tangled web of Ferraris and McLarens; and it will be interesting to see how the boys from Woking run their race. Button has said he’d quit F1 if team orders return. Apparently. He starts two places ahead of his team-mate who’s ahead of him in the world championship. Just in case you missed it…
It was also a case of real teamwork in action in our garage too, as Mark had to compensate for time lost in P3. “I didn’t get many laps on the option tyre, but the engineers were able to look at what Sebastian found out on them and the team worked closely to give me some information, which helped me,” said Webber.
While Seb himself was disappointed with his afternoon, he knew that there was still all to play for tomorrow: “We have a good race car, so let’s see what tomorrow brings. With high fuel it will be different around here. It might be quite slippery at the beginning of the race. We’re not the fastest here, we know that, but we’ll see what we can do.”
Ferrari meanwhile had a dream Italian GP Saturday with their new hope taking pole and this afternoon is the first time the Scuderia has been P1 since Brazil in 2008. A race Felipe will remember well.
For us, it’s the first time since the Italian Grand Prix last year that there hasn’t been a Red Bull Racing driver in the post-Qualifying press conference - this was never a track we expected to dominate. But, as Christian Horner pointed out, anything can happen around the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza: “At a circuit that we knew coming here was our worst of the Championship on paper, to be ahead of the Championship leader is a solid team performance.
"The one thing we all know about Monza is that it tends to produce exciting races, so we’re set for a fascinating race.”
Source: Red Bull
