F1 Germany Qualifying 19 July 2014 ONE HD 21:30 AEST

[gary]

Coverage of the Qualifying session for the German Grand Prix begins
on ONE tonight at 21:30 AEST.

Coverage of the race itself is on Sunday on TEN starting at 21:45 AEST.

Not having slowed down from just getting married, Nico Rosberg
set the fastest time in P1 followed by Hamilton, Alonso, Ricciardo and Button.

Demonstrating how evenly matched they are, Lewis set the fastest time
in P2 only 0.024 seconds ahead of his team mate.

Ricciardo set the third fastest time, only 0.078 seconds behind Rosberg.

Conditions are expected to be hot and fine over the weekend.

Following yesterday's terrible loss of the Malaysian Airline flight, most
of the world will be feeling very sombre at the moment but hopefully
F1 followers can lose themselves for a while and still enjoy the race.

[torana68]

......... and hopefully those on delayed telecast wont look here :)

[Exfso]

I am not saying a thing this time.....:P

[simmo]

Great race. Poor Massa. Not sure but you would think that with as much exprience that he has that he would have left some room entering that first corner. Glad to see that all drivers made it safely through the weekend. A real testimony to the engineering these days. Especially with hamiltons crash as well. In real time it was all over so quickly.
Anybody else barracking for bottas in the later stages?

[gary]

What was impressive is that Daniel Ricciardo can even out-manoeuvre
the venerable Fernando Alonso in a duel.

Alono's tyres were fresher but Ricciardo kept him at bay for several laps.
The F1 Live timing app showed a gap of 0.000 between them at
wherever it recorded them at the finish.

Daniel also did well to avoid the collision with Massa's overturned Williams
skating across in front of him in a shower of sparks.
A sight most of us don't see everyday whilst we are at work.

It certainly was Rosberg's week. Get's married. Signs a 3-year $55 million
contract with Mercedes. First in qualifying. Wins the German Grand Prix.
Stays ahead in the world championship.

[Astro_Bot]

Hamilton did pretty well, from 20th to Podium. :thumbsup: