Took a gamble but lost. At least he had the balls to try.

I fully understand he chose inters. He is, after all, the new rainmeister and can control situations that no other drivers can.

Seriously though, his over-confidence is beginning to show.

You'd hope.

Kimi and Lewis will have the advantage of avoiding parc feme. Who knows how important they will be because of the impredictable weather and set up gambles?

Anyhow, great job for Massa.

yeah yeah, those famous balls again. Seems they are getting in the way a bit too often?

nice save from kimi there. thought he was in the wall fer sure.

Try what? Intermediates and the glory of being fastest in Q2?

Well, atleast Kimi has the excuse of Ferrari not working very well on wet, but the self-proclaimed "I can adapt to any condition" -wonderboy has no excuses.

Serves him right for making those dumb-ass comments, once again.

After 15 years of boring F1, I have to admit this is interesting - fun even!

Why did he have to gamble? He was a few tenths away from Kovalainen in Q1. What did he/they try to achieve? Beat the others with five second margin? To what purpose? A place in Q3 was a given and then he would have put Massa outside of the top ten...

In Q1 the new rainmeister was slower than his team mate. Thats more bad for him

Mr. Balls? Where is Mr. Balls?

What you´re saying is that if he´d chosen hard drys he´d have been even braver? There are gambles and then there are...

Massa already did a great job today. And again proves he is a very good rain driver. I think we can now safely say silverstone was more a car/ bad setup problem.

I always thought it was.

if it is going to be dry tomorrow the top guys don't want to finish in the top 10

would u rather start from the grid in a dry race with wets on, or from the pits with drys?

I know which option I would go for.

No, they took a gamble on what would be the faster tyre, but got it wrong. That's racing for you.

McLarens gamble gotta qualify in pole position as the most stupid decision taken by a team in the last decade.

He was with Mr. Banglestein last time I saw him...................

When it was Lewis being faster, I don´t remember you talking about different setups ;)

But they didnt want to be 14th and 15th either.

terrific pirroette from lewis

No need to gamble as the only thing that matters is to go through to Q3, something he would have done without a problem if he had given himself the same terms as the others. If anyone had reason to gamble, it was Ferrari and the rest of the guys who was chasing, not Hamilton and McLaren.

Agreed, but as usual that's with hindsight.

No no its the fault of the FIA ;)

Wasn't raining eavier on the last part of Q2?

Unforgivable teamwork and strategy. Utter failure is an understatement.

Just remember Hamiltons SC pitstop strategy in Hockenheim...

if you don't finish in the top 10 you can change your setup.

starting from the pit lane with dry rubber will beat starting from the grid with wets

No, it was obvious for me, the commentators and a hell of a lot of others at the moment it happened.

Certainly looked like it.

Vettel on Pole?

Terrific!

Vettel!

Cracking job by Vettel.

Everything is setup for an interesting race tomorrow.

I think Kova is blatantly the sacrificial lamb here.

That RB4 must be good in the wet - that's 3 Red Bulls in the top 4. Congrats to Vettel anyway

Ferrari beaten by 2 toro rossos, a red bull, a mclaren and a williams.

I demand ACTION!! This season of amateuristic actions has to stop!!! Luca di MOntzemolo DO SOMETHING!!!

Im really really really upset!!!

I think you are blatantly talking yet more crap.

I knew that ;) Seemed like an unnecessary gamble atm.

It was another lap.
LH 15.

You really are something else, have you any justification whatsoever or simply trolling.

wow, what a great qualy & pole!!!

kubi , kimi, and lewis all out in Q2. all in danger of being caught up in opening lap highjinx tomorrow.

Two Torros Rosso and a Red Bull in the first four, and Vettel on Pole - I think Honda should do us all a favour and withdraw from F1, it's just getting too embarrassing. Honda's budget must be a multiple of TR and RB combined; you can throw Forces India into that as well on today's performance.

This is history!

depending on conditions and set-up it might be better to start from the pits and have a setup to match the conditions.

Woah.
Go Vettel, top man

Monza 2008: Post Qualifying Comments.

if the race tomorrow starts in dry weather, these grid positions will all fly out the window

Meh, only P6 for Massa. I would be better if he got P11 in Q2, then he could change the strategy for tomorrow.