A fantastic day for British Motorsport, Button on Pole

Motor racing statisticians will enjoy this day! When was the last time that a new or as in this case, rejuvenated, team got two cars on the front row of a GP? Brawn GP is run by Ross Brawn who is one of the premier race engineers in the world and who worked at Ferrari during Michael Schumacher’s time as a driver. We went to the circuit a bit later then other days in order to conserve our energy and watched the GT cars, F1 practice and F1 qualifying. The Williams cars dropped down the order in qualifying and it was Jensen Button and Rubens Barichello who made a fantastic effort and ended up on the front row of the grid with Vettel and Kubica third and fourth. Kimi went off in practice and Lewis had a disastrous start to an already poor beginning to his season with a gearbox failure so he and both the Toyotas are starting from the back of the grid. Game on!