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Williams: Maldonado reaches Q3 but still no points | 2011 Spanish GP team review

23 May 2011 by Keith Collantine

Williams ^[1] point-less streak continued in Spain despite a top-ten start for Pastor Maldonado.

Technical director Sam Michael said the team had a lot to work on: ?Although our end positions don?t look like it, we are improving but it is extremely tight in the midfield. If you don?t get it right, you end up 15th instead of 10th.

?The main thing for us now is to keep focused and to improve the upgrades we bring to the car.

?Over the next couple of races in particular we need to get the front and rear wings and the diffuser working. Today we had a problem with the rear jack on both cars so we will look into that before Monaco.?

Williams drivers? lap times throughout the race (in seconds):

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/charts/2011drivercolours.csv

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60	61
Rubens Barrichello	107.077	95.18	95.129	94.693	94.716	94.248	94.265	93.952	93.675	94.548	97.342	118.04	90.996	92.666	91.586	91.292	91.015	91.124	91.933	92.571	92.727	92.647	94.975	108.174	90.263	90.224	90.302	90.116	90.416	90.681	90.846	91.041	91.463	92.04	94.1	109.967	91.595	91.559	91.456	91.262	91.786	90.81	90.807	91.118	91.799	92.34	91.19	91.375	92.214	91.863	91.947	92.256	92.397	94.907	107.214	87.222	88.652	87.808	87.629	86.891	87.991
Pastor Maldonado	102.255	93.713	92.865	92.747	92.907	92.201	92.648	95.624	109.981	91.695	92.954	91.452	91.421	92.886	93.407	92.139	92.002	92.058	91.927	95.89	111.772	89.394	90.119	91.427	90.208	90.804	91.655	91.593	90.464	90.554	90.544	91.057	90.761	90.956	92.082	94.636	110.433	90.249	90.749	90.376	91.688	90.576	92.28	91.025	90.598	90.717	90.823	90.321	90.524	91.492	90.931	93.575	95.21	108.76	89.883	89.682	89.868	89.922	89.921	89.759	89.862

Rubens Barrichello

Barrichello?s qualifying was ruined by a gearbox problem, leaving him 19th on the grid albeit with a full stock of fresh soft tyres.

He started the race on hard tyres with the intention of getting that stint out of the way early. But he had to run a final stint on hard tyres again and, like Maldonado, he was delayed by slow pit stops due to the jack problem.

More problems with the Kinetic Energy Recovery System cost him further time. ?That?s another race with no points?, he said. ?We need to improve?.

Rubens Barrichello 2011 form guide ^[2]

Start, Barcelona, 2011

Pastor Maldonado

Gave the team some cheer by making it into Q3 for the first time. ?The car wasn?t great so we took a bit of a risk and decided to run the new rear wing in qualifying?, he said.

But having started ninth he was down to 13th by the first corner: ?We didn?t have a great start, which is something we need to work on.?

Made four stops like his team mate ? who he passed at one point. Finished the race trying to pass Sebastien Buemi ^[3] for 14th.

Pastor Maldonado 2011 form guide ^[4]

2011 Spanish Grand Prix

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Image ? Williams/LAT