Man that was close!

How on earth are we slower than Sauber and Williams !!??

0.3s slower than Mercedes I have no idea what's going on.

Both cars seems really off the pace, what's happening, is it the wind like the mentioned?

It can be either wind or track temp. What a shame .... slower than Sauber

EDIT:

I might be also the direction of the wind. It slows them down on the straight and you know ..... F-Duct

IMHO there problems with the option tyres in Renault.

EDIT: Maybe it would be better to qualy on the prime tyres and "do a Kobayashi" in the race?

That was close. Kubica didn't do clean fast lap. Last one was good and He made a mistake in last sector- the fastest one for him for whole weekend. Hope He can manage clean one when it counts.

@Alburaq why You edited your comment?? It was so good

It's no about clean lap. We're off the pace a bit. Maybe wind, maybe temperatures, I don't know. Something is wrong, that's for sure.

Anything better than P10 will be a success in these circumstances ....

Off the pace sure. BUT last fast lap in q2- S1 best S2 best S3 slooooooow 0,5 off his pace....

6th, where did he pull that from?!

Can I just say though, what the frak was going on there!

RK saved that at the end, 6th is good, but jeepers creepers!

WOW!!!!! KUBICA IS the best driver )) P6 with the struggling Renault. Great place, and clean lap with fast S3.

Out of his nose I presume.

No, really, considering I almost passed out when he made it through Q2 10th, it's a splendid result.

I was right but.... after all this... Great result. Stunning lap from Kubica.

Yeah but the Renault was almost half a second off the Merc.

Kubica put in a binder but I suspect something (wind?) seriously degraded the car here.

I have no idea, but definetely something was wrong with the car, he lost 0.4s to Rosberg and that's too much. In normal circumstances Renault isn't 0.4s off Mercedes' pace.

BTW:
Sebastian Vettel - 1:29.615
+1.4s Robert Kubica.

How is it possible ??

He splited the McLarens, Merdeseses and Ferraris, not bad for so much struggling in Q1 and Q2

RB is way, waaaay over the pace, and Renault is under the pace, that how it is possible.

I mean that they have already reduced the gap, but now it's like in Bahrain.

But notice that this big gap of RB isn't only to Renault, they demolished here everyone.

Renault needs fduct ASAP

Yes, definetely. I doubt they will find these missing 3 tenths in other places.

Guys, it's the gusting wind I think, varying between 3 to 9 mph.
Remember Silverstone was built on an airfield
Good race tomorrow I'm sure, that bump in the middle of Abbey curve will add to the spice early in the race ( full fuel loads) and at the end (worn tyres)
Go RENAULT, Go KUBICA

Was the wind gusting to all but RedBull?

Go Renault ....... but they didn't do any step forward here (in terms of pace), rather backwards. Sad.

And they need this F*cking Duct

Maybe the first signs of pushing more for the 2011 car? Hope not...

It's only the track... Chill. On Hocke they should be fine.

P6 is a realistic result for Kubica; in Q2 he was able to bring the same result but he did a very bad S3 in the very last minutes (36.5 instead of his best 36.1)

so P6 is not a miracle.

but crealy there is a problem...

no

P6 is a realistic result for Kubica; in Q2 he was able to bring the same result but he did a very bad S3 in the very last minutes (36.5 instead of his best 36.1)

so P6 is not a miracle.

but crealy there is a problem...

+1





I was'nt wrong... (except for Rosberg)

If we look only at the place P6 is realistic for Renault and Kubica, but looking at times it's not good. 4 tenths to Rosberg is too much .....

That's why I say something is wrong with the car... (temperature ? wind ? engine ?)
or maybe the F-duct...

Petrov was very close to RK in every session...

except the one that counts.
Row 3..vs..Row 8...is not close.
It will be hard for Petrov to contribute even 1 point to the team tomorrow.

Not good, I would say it is bad as hell ...
Source

He was actually really showing some pace and confidence, he didn't get a chance to do a good lap in Q2 due to some car failure...

what car failure

It looked more like going out of fuel on one stint, if it were a car failure he wouldn't go out for one more stint where he maked P16 (after first stint it was P17)

His sector times were very inconsistent.
He wasn't held up, as I could see.
It looked like he was trying out different lines.
Not something you do in Q2.

Petrov had neck problems

Yeah; Gerard Lopez broke his neck after Q2

Let's get this straight, at SILVERSTONE Kubica is P6 and ahead of:-
1 McLaren with the original f-duct,
1 Ferrari with an f-duct and major upgrades,
1 Mercedes with major upgrades, and
some people are STILL MOANING
Miracles Robert can do, the IMPOSSIBLE will take a little longer

Well I think for whatever reason the setup was a bit whack this weekend, so in light of that I think we will all take 6th and run with it.

Depending how things go tomorrow, 6th gives the change for big points or even podium finishes, so good recovery, looking forward to the race.

Would be nice if RK could get up on the podium, you never know;)

He was ahead of one struggling McLaren.
He was ahead of one Ferrari with rubbi...Massa behind the wheel.
He was ahead of one Mercedes with old driver behind the wheel.

However all this above is nothing special, he often is in front of these guys.
What IS important and worrying at the same time is that he was 0.4s behind Rosberg. It is too much, we were on par or even ahead of Mercedes in recent races. This is why some people are STILL MOANING.

We were in front of these guys on slow tracks, I know that Renault made some expectations about their fast-corner pace, but it looks like the car still looks better on slow tracks, so fingers crossed for Hungary

Q3 is the achilles heel for the Renault R30, 1 lap when either traffic or at Silverstone a sudden gust of wind can make a cars performance look below par.
Race-day I expect a slightly better performance, sure the dirty side of the grid to start but Kubica is looking glued to the track in the corners, and especially in the new section.
That bump at Abbey will play havoc in the first few laps on a full fuel load, and again at the end if tyre wear becomes an issue.
Given Robert's pretty faultless race day performances so far in 2010, I'm confident that he can FINISH higher than his grid position.
I think reliability and some of the leading cars bottoming out at turn 11 will present opportunities for Robert to capitalise
Here's to an incident and safety car free race

Hopefully Robert will have a good start.

Exactly!

IMHO P6 would be a really great result, anything above it, will be a big nice suprise for me