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Race details for the 2011 Australian Grand Prix

2011 Australian Grand Prix

Date:25-27 Mar 2011, Weather

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Sauber

Sauber Both cars disqualified due to technical infringement.
Both Saubers were disqualified from the race eliminating a double points finish due to a technical infringement with the rear wing.

A section from the FIA Technical Report reads:

‘Except for the uppermost rear wing element of car numbers 16 and 17 (see previous technical report), all car weights and the items checked were found to be in conformity with the 2011 FIA Formula One Technical Regulations.’

The Sauber team decided to appeal against the exclusion but later retracted this after realizing their mistake.

Drivers Points

Position	Name	Points
1	Barrichello, Rubens	20
2	Schumacher, Michael	13
3	Chandhok, Karun	9
4	Glock, Timo	6
5	Maldonado, Pastor	6
6	Sutil, Adrian	6
7	Hamilton, Lewis	6
8	Rosberg, Nico	6
9	Heidfeld, Nick	6
10	Button, Jenson	5
11	Liuzzi, Vitantonio	5
12	Karthikeyan, Narain	5
13	Kovalainen, Heikki	3
14	Massa, Felipe	1
15	Alguersuari, Jaime	1
16	Webber, Mark	1

Constructors Points

Position		Name	Points
1		Sauber	26

Top 5 drivers before

Position		Name	Points
No previous event

Top 5 drivers current

Position	Name	Points
1	Barrichello, Rubens	20
2	Schumacher, Michael	13
3	Chandhok, Karun	9
4	Glock, Timo	6
5	Maldonado, Pastor	6

Who?	Points	Action	Lap
Race
Sauber	16 pts	Both cars disqualified due to technical infringement. Both Saubers were disqualified from the race eliminating a double points finish due to a technical infringement with the rear wing. A section from the FIA Technical Report reads: ‘Except for the uppermost rear wing element of car numbers 16 and 17 (see previous technical report), all car weights and the items checked were found to be in conformity with the 2011 FIA Formula One Technical Regulations.’ The Sauber team decided to appeal against the exclusion but later retracted this after realizing their mistake.
Glock, Timo (Virgin Racing)	1 pts	Ran wide at turn one on the first lap	1
Barrichello, Rubens (Williams)	1 pts	Went off at turn 3 on the first lap.	1
Alguersuari, Jaime (Scuderia Toro Rosso)	1 pts	Collided with the back of Schumacher’s right rear tyre. Alguersuari got in the wrong place and collided with the back of Schumacher’s right read tyre slicing it. Alguersuari describes â€œI got a good start, moving up to about tenth or 11th place I think. Then, coming into Turn 2, Michael cut the corner as he was having a go around the outside, while I was on the inside. The result was that he touched my front wing and I had to come in to change it. He could not have avoided doing it, as I was already in the middle of the corner.”	1
Schumacher, Michael (Mercedes Grand Prix)	8 pts	Unintentionally collided with Alguersuari’s front wing, slicing his tyre. Schumacher blamed Alguersuari for the incident that saw his tyre sliced and disintegrate on the remained of the lap. Schumacher pitted at the end of the lap but the damage to the car’s floor was enough to make the car undrivable. Schumacher retired on Lap 19 as a result.	1
Maldonado, Pastor (Williams)	6 pts	Stopped on lap 9 with transmission failure	11
Button, Jenson (McLaren)	5 pts	Fighting with Massa, Button was forced to use the run off and received a drive through penalty. In the first major driver battle of 2011, both Massa and Button had been trading dummies and DRS boosts for quite a few laps. Exiting the back straight Button had managed to get along side Massa but Massa did not feel inclined to allow the room for the Englishman to pass. As a result Button took to the run off and gained the advantage. The stewards decided that was not allowed and Button received a drive through penalty. Button took the penalty on lap 18.	11
Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus)	1 pts	Decide the track was no longer in vogue and went off and back on in turn 1	17
Kovalainen, Heikki (Team Lotus)	2 pts	Stopped due to a water leak on lap 19	19
Glock, Timo (Virgin Racing)	5 pts	Virgin carried out mid race repair to the car of Glock after wheel vibration caused issues. During a pitstop, the left front wheel was loose. Glock was forced to drive a lap slowly and return to the pits. Virgin repaired the car and sent Glock back out on the track to finish last 9 laps down with the car still vibrating from issues at the front.	20
Barrichello, Rubens (Williams)	6 pts	On lap 22, catching Rosberg, Barrichello collided with the German driver putting himself into a spin. Barrichello complained that Rosberg had braked earlier for the corner forcing Barrichello to make for the side of the Mercedes. The race stewards saw that this was an avoidable accident and gave Barrichello a drive through penalty for the pleasure. Rosberg retired as a result of the accident.	22
Hamilton, Lewis (McLaren)	1 pts	Hamilton decided to go off and on to the track again	33
Webber, Mark (Red Bull Racing)	1 pts	Off and on again with cold tyres following a pit stop	42
Barrichello, Rubens (Williams)	6 pts	Retired with transmission failure	52
Qualifying
Heidfeld, Nick (Renault)	6 pts	KERS failure prevented Heidfeld from proceeding past Q1
Hamilton, Lewis (McLaren)	5 pts	Warned by the stewards for blocking other drivers. Hamilton was given a warning for blocking Petrov in Q2.
Schumacher, Michael (Mercedes Grand Prix)	5 pts	Warned by the stewards for blocking other drivers. Schumacher was given a warning for blocking Nick Heidfeld.
Rosberg, Nico (Mercedes Grand Prix)	5 pts	Warned by the stewards for blocking other drivers. Rosberg was given a warning for blocking Sergio PÃ©rez.
Barrichello, Rubens (Williams)	7 pts	Span into the gravel in Q1. Made a mistake and ran wide which meant that the WIlliams driver ended up in the gravel and out of qualifying.
Rosberg, Nico (Mercedes Grand Prix)	1 pts	Narrowly missed taking the side off the car. Entering the back straight, Rosberg skimmed the wall with the rear of his Mercedes. Presumably seeing if he could get the paint off the tyres.
Sutil, Adrian (Force India)	6 pts	Span on the start of the main straight directly in front of the pits. On ending his last flying lap, Sutil ran wide on the last corner. The kerbs sponsored a spin down the main straight managing a 360 degree spin in a plume of blue smoke. Lap ruined!
Massa, Felipe (Ferrari)	1 pts	After leaving the pits, Massa span on cold tyres. At the start of Q3 Massa left the pits forgetting the fact that cold tyres could mean a spin. After spinning in turn one, he was up to date on this for the 2011 season. He was able to continue.
Karthikeyan, Narain (Hispania Racing)	5 pts	Failed to qualify within 107% of the pole position time
Liuzzi, Vitantonio (Hispania Racing)	5 pts	Failed to qualify within 107% of the pole position time
Practice
Chandhok, Karun (Team Lotus)	9 pts	Crashed on the first lap of free practice. As the 3rd driver of Team Lotus, Chandhok had the pleasure of taking our the new 2011 Lotus. No sooner had he passed turn three, he lost control and hit the wall.
Sauber	10 pts	Engine cover failed to take the stress of racing. In Friday practice, Kobayashi’s engine cover partially detached itself leading the team to rethink which cover it was to us in the race.