Sentences with phrase «pole time»

A similar wave of evolution occurs from the opposite pole some time before and passes away.

Hamilton's pole time of 1:31.678 is actually the quickest ever lap at the Shanghai track, although it's not the official lap record as it wasn't set in the race.

Hamilton's lap (which is 1.6 seconds quicker than his own pole time from 2015) is actually the fastest ever done at Monaco, beating Kimi Raikkonen's 1m 13.532, set in qualifying for the 2006 race.

Sebastian Vettel was second fastest and also beat last year's pole time by just one - thousandth of a second.

Plus, quite a few other cars like the Red Bull and Ferrari have lapped quite a bit below the 2016 pole time too.

We're only three days into winter testing and the new breed of F1 cars have been regularly crushing last year's Spanish Grand Prix pole time.

Valtteri Bottas» 1:19.320 at the wheel of his Mercedes W08 on day two of the second test (day six overall) was five seconds quicker than the 2015 Spanish GP pole time.

In testing today, the car just set a 1:41.770 around Spa - that's eight - tenths faster than Lewis Hamilton's pole time at the circuit in 2017, the previous circuit record.

We saw that during testing and through practice in Melbourne, with Vettel's session - topping FP3 time already quicker than his outright fastest lap of Albert Park — his 2011 pole time of 1:23.529.

Much faster than the previous generation of F1 cars, for example Valtteri Bottas smashed Mercedes team - mate Lewis Hamilton's 1:22.000 pole time from last year's Spanish Grand Prix when he did a 1:19.705 on the ultra-soft tyres on Wednesday.

Valtteri Bottas could only manage fifth, almost seven tenths off Hamilton's pole time.

But perhaps more impressively, he was only a quarter of a second off of Rubens Barrichello's pole time.

Now he's got another fastest ever lap under his belt and his pole time was almost four seconds quicker than Nico Roberg's 1:35.402 from Q3 last year.

But Bottas» pole time was also the fastest ever lap around the Bahrain International Circuit, smashing the previous record.

As a comparison, the pole times for the Spanish GP were 1:24.681 in 2015 and a 1:22.000 in 2016, with the best testing lap of 1:18.634.

That's around 1.7 seconds faster than Hamilton's pole time from 2016 and around 1.4 seconds quicker than Vettel's previous record from 2011.

It's not just last year's pole time they're beating however.

Hamilton's 1:19.149 was well over five seconds quicker than Nico Rosberg's 2015 pole time of 1:24.681.

Lewis Hamilton crushed the previous Albert Park Circuit lap record in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, with his pole time of 1:22.188.

Hamilton carries so much more speed through the quick corners, and that's contributed to him going over two and a half seconds faster than last year's pole time.

Hamilton's pole time of 1:27.319 was 1.6 seconds faster than the previous best, set by Michael Schumacher in 2006.

Gianmaria Bruni captured the GT pole in the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia with the category's fastest lap at 1:18.699, over a second faster than last year's pole time.

When it came time to qualify Friday afternoon, Eversley's No. 43 was the car to beat, as he posted a pole time of 53.429 (99.31 mph).

Last year's Long Beach race winner, Magnussen, took the car he shares with Antonio Garcia to a 1m17.756 s to better the 2014 pole time and go fourth in class, a mere 0.020 s quicker than fifth - placed Gavin who had his qualifying preparation compromised.

I still think (the pole time) was in the car but I just bounced in the middle of Turn 3 over a small bump and that put me a little bit off line at the exit.

It will be a bit of work for the guys but the car was awesome in qualifying and I believe the pole time was in it.

We have to hunt and search a lot to gain on the pole time.