- Toyota claimed
its second pole position of this year's World Endurance Championship at the Shanghai circuit in China.Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre followed up on their pole at the Silverstone season...
Having won the race, his strong form carried over to the next race weekend, the United States GP, where he took
his second pole position and won.
But,
a second pole position didn't follow particularly quickly.
Unfortunately, for Mario Andretti, he not only holds the record for the longest wait between first and second F1 wins, but he also has the largest gap between first and
second pole positions too.
It doesn't happen all that often, but sometimes F1 drivers take their first and
second pole positions in quick succession
Having looked at the shortest gaps between first and
second pole positions, we thought we'd dive into more niche F1 stats and see who had to wait the longest.
That's seven days between his first and
second pole positions.
Another driver with a 14 - day gap between their first and
second pole positions is Rene Arnoux, who scored them at the 1979 Austrian GP and the Dutch GP respectively with his Renault.
He tried again at the next race in Brazil and was on pole again, meaning there was just a 14 - day interval between his first and
second pole positions.
Not exact matches
Second, Hunter argues not only that political conflicts run along this single axis, but that political
positions cluster around the two
poles of that axis.
Last year's Porsche 919 Hybrid was insanely quick, taking
pole position in every single race and often smashing circuit records by up to six or seven
seconds!
Sebastian Vettel took
pole position from his teammate in the last
seconds of an extremely close qualifying session
He took
pole position for the first race of the season in Australia, the
second of his F1 career, and eventually won the race.
Regulation P. 1 - Points awarded for
pole position, one point for every tenth of the margin back to
second place.
It was only his
second F1 season and he snatched
pole position at the 1994 Belgian GP, but it took him quite some time to repeat the achievement.
Let's conclude this piece with a great onboard lap of Spa with Giancarlo Fisichella, who took a surprise
pole position for Force India and translated that into
second place in the race.
For some drivers, securing their first F1
pole position is quickly followed by a
second, and third, and fourth.
Koke's goal after 23
seconds and Antoine Griezmann's goal ensure that the Spanish side are in
pole position for a place in the semi-finals.
Lewis Hamilton beat Nico Rosberg to
pole position by 0.452
seconds, but was still 24.016
seconds off of Keke Rosbergs best lap at Silverstone.
The Algerians lead the game 3 - 0 at half time after a storming first period and, despite something of a South Korean come back, held on to put themselves in
pole position to qualify for the
second round.
The win took Arsenal level on points with Man City and even though Pellegrini's team have a slightly better goal difference, plus 35 compared to our own 33, it looks to have put us in
pole position to finish in
second place and confirm the EPL improvement we have been talking about in the
second half of the season.
There was a gap of just 14 days between his first
pole position at the Monaco GP and his
second, which was at the Swiss Grand Prix.
If a driver has a quick car and is challenging at the front of the field fairly early in their career, then the first and
second F1
pole positions they score can be separated by very little time.
Here are the drivers with the smallest gaps between picking up their first and
second F1
pole positions.
The Brit carried on his form from Montreal to take his 66th
pole position and go a clear
second on the all - time
pole position list
They're now tied in
second place on the all - time list, behind Michael Schumacher, with 65
pole positions — and he was presented with a race - worn helmet from the Senna family to commemorate the achievement.
In qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix Fernando Alonso could only manage 15th on the grid, some 3.5
seconds off of Sebastian Vettel's
pole position time.
Well, on Saturday at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Hamilton matched Senna's tally of 65
pole positions to equal his idol and draw level in
second place on the all - time list.
In 2015 Nico Rosberg's
pole position time at the same track was 1:24.681, so that means that the 2017 cars are already more than five
seconds quicker than they were two years ago, which was the FIAs target for the new regulations.
Hinchcliffe captured the
pole position with a qualifying speed of 230.760 mph in the Fast Nine portion on the
second day of qualifying last Sunday.
Vettel was on a great lap during the final moments of qualifying and looked set to snatch an unlikely
pole position, but a bad final sector cost him time to Lewis Hamilton and he had to settle for
second.
Ferrari (especially Sebastian Vettel) had somewhat struggled for pace all session but even so the duo managed to lock out the
second row, with Kimi Raikkonen ahead of his teammate, but they were over a
second slower than Hamilton's
pole position time.
With Kalidou Koulibaly from Napoli is a prime target for a
second time, Conte will need to look for a back up striker, but ahead of a spending frenzy, the West London unit look to be in
pole position for the new campaign.
Instead of having an «Alternative Vote» and artificial
second preferences, a ballot is held a week or two later in which the top two candidates slug it out for
pole position.
Plato took the first win of the day after securing
pole position in his Silverline Chevrolet Cruze, closely followed by team mate Alex MacDowall in
second - the team's first one - two finish of the season.
Plato won a much more straightforward race two from
pole position, with Jordan again
second.
In the reverse - grid race three, Jordan took control once again as he managed to convert his
pole position into his
second dominant win of the day.
We'd grabbed
pole position with just over a
second advantage compared to the next closest car so all signs were good early on.
CORVETTE RACING AT LONG BEACH: Gavin, Magnussen Part of Tight GTLM Fight Fittipaldi nabs first Long Beach
pole position for Action Express Racing; Ricky Taylor
second
CORVETTE RACING AT COTA: Two Corvettes in Thick of Close GTLM Qualifying Battle Magnussen within 0.2
seconds from class
pole position at Circuit of The Americas AUSTIN, Texas (May 5, 2017)-- Jan Magnussen paced Corvette Racing's qualifying efforts Friday at Circuit of The Americas with the sixth - best time in the GT Le Mans (GTLM) class of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Circuit of The Americas.
«A
second straight
pole position in this class is no easy achievement.
His Thursday qualifying time was nearly two
seconds faster than the 2003
pole position.
The strength of the GTE Pro class was evident Wednesday with the top seven cars within 0.915
seconds with provisional
pole position at 3:55.658.
In qualifying for tomorrow's four - hour Road Race Showcase at Road America, it was Jan Magnussen's turn to qualify the No. 4 Corvette C6.R and, despite being more than a
second quicker than Olly's
pole - winning lap at Road America in 2010, and six tenths of a
second under the GT qualifying record set in 2008, he just missed out on
pole position.
Magnussen within 0.2
seconds from class
pole position at Circuit of The Americas AUSTIN, Texas (May 5, 2017)-- Jan Magnussen paced Corvette Racing's...
The Northamptonshire, UK - based driver was frustrated to have missed
pole position by just 0.182
seconds, but pleased to have achieved the result after an up - and - down week of interrupted practice sessions and new car glitches.
Corvette DPs take four of top - five overall
positions; Magnussen leads Corvette Racing in qualifying • First Long Beach
pole position for Corvette DP • Wayne Taylor Racing
second in last year's Long Beach race • Corvette Racing to fight in GTLM from fourth and fifth on grid
His best time of 1:29.945, set on the fourth of seven laps was good enough for
pole position by 0.382
seconds, and Olly was the only driver to go under 90
seconds in qualifying.
CORVETTE RACING AT VIR: Magnussen Leads Corvette 1 - 2 Effort in Qualifying Milner
second as Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs sweep front row in Virginia First overall
pole position for Corvette Racing in team history Magnussen sets GTLM track record on newly paved racing surface Corvette Racing seeking fourth straight win and
second at VIR Manufacturer, Driver and Team championship leads in GTLM for Chevrolet, Corvette Racing ALTON, Va. (Aug. 27, 2016)-- Jan Magnussen put the No. 3 Mobil 1 / SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette...
Eversley, the multi-time GT race winner in PWC, easily scored the
pole position Friday afternoon with a best lap of 53.429
seconds for an average speed of 99.31 miles per hour in the TCR qualifying session to pace the 13 - car field at the historic 1.5 - mile, seven - turn road circuit.