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[Kaciaj]

Nico Rosberg has taken pole position for this weekend’s first GP2 series race at Silverstone for ART Grand Prix ahead of Nelson Piquet Jr. Tomorrow’s front row will have an element of déjà vu, as exactly 20 years ago at this very track, their fathers lined up in identical positions for the start of the 1985 British Grand Prix. Rosberg’s pole lap that year was, at the time, the quickest lap ever run in a Formula One car, and remained so for almost 20 years.

Rosberg’s 2005 pole comes on the back of his maiden GP2 series victory in Race 2 at Magny-Cours last weekend. His time of 1:31.509 was set early on in the session, and despite Nelson’s most determined efforts, Nico held pole by 0.041 seconds.

Championship leader Heikki Kovalainen (Arden International) will line up in third, ahead of his main championship rival Adam Carroll (Super Nova International) in fourth. Alexandre Premat set the actual fourth quickest time of the qualifying session, but a ten- place grid penalty imposed after Race 2 in France will see the Frenchman start 14th.

Neel Jani will start from fifth position for Racing Engineering, with DAMS’ Jose Maria Lopez in sixth. Scott Speed (iSport International) and Giorgio Pantano (Super Nova International) line up on row four, with Nicolas Lapierre (Arden International) and Clivio Piccione (Durango) on row five.



Tomorrow’s weather forecast promises clouds and mild heat, with no hint of the rain that many had expected would affect this weekend’s racing. With an age-old battle set to be re-run on row one, and the battle for the championship lead on row two, tomorrow’s race promises to be yet another exciting chapter in the story of the GP2 series.

Nico Rosberg – ART Grand Prix
“This pole position feels great! It wasn’t an ideal qualifying, I could have done much better, but it was just that first set [of tyres] that worked out quite all right. I’m very happy with pole, and we have a good car, so I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s race. I’m looking for another win!”

Nelson Piquet Jr – Hitech Piquet Sports
“I am very happy – I think I could have gone a bit quicker but I had someone in front of me and lost maybe two or three tenths, so that’s why I’m happy – I could have had pole, and that’s got to be a positive thing. We’ll work on the car for tomorrow now, because race set-ups tend to be different to qualifying, and I hope that everything will go well.”

Heikki Kovalainen – Arden International
“Well I’m not exactly happy – of course I wanted pole – but that was the maximum I could do today. I felt the lap had no mistakes, was clean, but just not quick enough today, to be honest. In my opinion it was one of my best qualifying laps this year, but to be half a second behind tells you we’re missing something.”

STARTING GRID

1. fila
Nico Rosberg - ART - 1'31"509
Nelson Piquet - Hitech/Piquet - 1'31"550
2. fila
Heikki Kovalainen - Arden - 1'31"929
Adam Carroll - Super Nova - 1'32"004
3. fila
Neel Jani - Racing Engineering - 1'32"190
Josè Maria Lopez - Dams - 1'32"298
4. fila
Scott Speed - Isport - 1'32"339
Giorgio Pantano - Super Nova - 1'32"359
5. fila
Nicolas Lapierre - Arden - 1'32"374
Clivio Piccione - Durango - 1'32"395
6. fila
Gianmaria Bruni - Coloni - 1'32"446
Olivier Pla - DPR - 1'32"467
7. fila
Juan Cruz Alvarez - Campos - 1'32"793
Alexandre Premat - ART - 1'31"987 *
8. fila
Borja Garcia - Racing Engineering - 1'32"848
Hiroki Yoshimoto - BCN - 1'32"941
9. fila
Ferdinando Monfardini - Durango - 1'32"953
Fairuz Fauzy - Dams - 1'33"006
10. fila
Sergio Hernandez - Campos - 1'33"226
Ryan Sharp - DPR - 1'33"298
11. fila
Can Artam - Isport - 1'34"033
Alexandre Negrao - Hitech/Piquet - 1'34"109
12. fila
Mathias Lauda - Coloni - 1'34"692
Ernesto Viso - BCN - 1'32"816 *

[Der Kaiser]

AAAAAAAAAAH YES GO ROSBERG!!!! Why does no channel in the UK show qualifying GP2 coverage??? or have I missed it?  I've only ever seen race 1 and 2 on eurosport and motors tv

[Kaciaj]

kaisersalsek, on Jul 8 2005, 06:09 PM, said:

AAAAAAAAAAH YES GO ROSBERG!!!! Why does no channel in the UK show qualifying GP2 coverage??? or have I missed it?  I've only ever seen race 1 and 2 on eurosport and motors tv

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Are you a fan of Nico Rosberg?

[Der Kaiser]

how did you guess?

[Kaciaj]

kaisersalsek, on Jul 8 2005, 06:26 PM, said:

how did you guess?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I guess also you are a fan of him cause you were a fan of his father..maybe I'm correct?

[Der Kaiser]

Kaciaj, on Jul 8 2005, 06:30 PM, said:

I guess also you are a fan of him cause you were a fan of his father..maybe I'm correct?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

nope, I wasn't into F1 back then but Keke seems like a pretty cool guy from what I've read, and a pretty decent racer at that too

[Kaciaj]

kaisersalsek, on Jul 8 2005, 06:34 PM, said:

nope, I wasn't into F1 back then but Keke seems like a pretty cool guy from what I've read, and a pretty decent racer at that too

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

So you'll be excited to know that my brother raced karts as a teammate to Nico back in 1999...And I raced against him (as well as against Hamilton,Kubica etc...) in karts in 1998,my last season...

[Max Mosley]

Lucky you.  How did you do Kaciaj?

[Kaciaj]

Murray Walker, on Jul 8 2005, 06:40 PM, said:

Lucky you.  How did you do Kaciaj?

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ùi did few races in karts btw '97 and '98 but I was too slow quite Yoongesque.......My brother is much more a better driver..once in the Italian Open at Lonato,in the rain he did beat evrybody (including teammates Rosberg and Kubica) by one second and half!It' s sad he never took this sport seriously..

[Der Kaiser]

Kaciaj, on Jul 8 2005, 06:37 PM, said:

So you'll be excited to know that my brother raced karts as a teammate to Nico back in 1999...And I raced against him (as well as against Hamilton,Kubica etc...) in karts in 1998,my last season...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Really???  That's really cool!  Racing with the future F1 and GP2 world champion

And yeah, how did you do?!

[Jenson_Rules]

yeah cool

[Max Mosley]

Very nice Kaciaj.  Sounds pretty good to me.

[Kaciaj]

I've already explained I was not too quick then I gave up after few races (but I tried again my hands at F.Ford four years ago with much better results but in the end I retired again since it was too late and  I had to look at School). My brother started racing karts in 1997 and stepped up racing in the 100cc. where Nico was racing in 1999.He did some goo things,he was impressive,but in mototr racing you have not only to be well funded and talented,but also really concentrated.My brother never goes to the gym,does drink a lot and just don't care.he is a stupid,cause he has talent (we could have also had stong link swith BAR if he had enough results)...Now has retired from F.Renault 2000 to switch to F.3000 Italia from next season.

[Max Mosley]

Yeah I guess you have to make great sacrifices to be the best.

[Kaciaj]

Murray Walker, on Jul 8 2005, 06:46 PM, said:

Very nice Kaciaj.  Sounds pretty good to me.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It WAS nice for me....Now it's m brother's turn..he has also a page on the best driver database in the world,Speedsprtmag.de,Marcello Puglisi is the name if you want to take a look..

[Max Mosley]

I wish your brother good luck.

[Kaciaj]

Murray Walker, on Jul 8 2005, 06:49 PM, said:

Yeah I guess you have to make great sacrifices to be the best.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Of course.Succesfull drivers often do a lot of sacrifices in the early stages of their career.At 16 they are often already out of home in a stranger country with no friends no parents,just going to the Gym and the team factory everyday..this is how you can get into F.1.

[Kaciaj]

Felipe Massa at 18,when racing in F.Renault,lived in a small flat near Milan, his only friends being his mechanics....

[Max Mosley]

Sato on the other hand ....

Only kidding its a tough life.

[Kaciaj]

Murray Walker, on Jul 8 2005, 06:52 PM, said:

Sato on the other hand ....

Only kidding its a tough life.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Of course, OK things change when you get into F.1 but it is not difficult to say that of the 10000 and plus F.1 aspirants around the world now just ten will make it to the final goal...and many times are the less deserving who achieve that due to their sponsors (ex.Monteiro,Karthikeyan)

[Kaciaj]

btw.I heard that Kimi,while racink karts in Holland, lived in a really small flat and had often no money to pay the hot water....But he didn't went back to home,why?He wanted to become a Grand Prix driver with all he had.

[Kaciaj]

You want to know one more story?A young Fernando Alonso raced karts with a prestigious Italian team who hired him just on talent basis cuase he had no money.But his family had also not got enough money to let him travel to Italy for the private testing sessions.It was in 1996 when a 14 years old driver, despite not having taken part in the previous month testing, won the Junior Karting World Championship in a dominant fashion....

[Der Kaiser]

I wish I could be a racer (I'm sure most people do actually coming to think about it)

[Kaciaj]

kaisersalsek, on Jul 8 2005, 07:07 PM, said:

I wish I could be a racer (I'm sure most people do actually coming to think about it)

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you have a lot of passion you can realize everything in your life,but you have to know you have to do a lot of sacrifices and suffer a lot....

[ecapdeville]

Kaciaj, on Jul 8 2005, 11:37 AM, said:

So you'll be excited to know that my brother raced karts as a teammate to Nico back in 1999...And I raced against him (as well as against Hamilton,Kubica etc...) in karts in 1998,my last season...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Mr. Puglisi, can I have your autograph?...Wow!!!!  

[Der Kaiser]

it's similar in many sports, kids start out at a very early age, they often struggle for the money, they have to make way too many sacrifices for the age they're at, hard work but in the end it will pay off, same as anything really.  And even if you don't make it into F1, just think of everything else you've gained

[Kaciaj]

ecapdeville, on Jul 8 2005, 07:10 PM, said:

Mr. Puglisi, can I have your autograph?...Wow!!!! 

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Of course   BTW I have a Sicilian surname despite living in Monza since my father is from Sicily...

[Der Kaiser]

Kaciaj, on Jul 8 2005, 07:10 PM, said:

If you have a lot of passion you can realize everything in your life,but you have to know you have to do a lot of sacrifices and suffer a lot....

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yeah, I know, I wish I could have done it like that, but no, I have to become a lawyer.  The plan then is to have kids and get them into it motor sports with my healthy wage package   (if that ever happens).  And it's too late for me to start now, maybe I'll join a racing club when I'm in my late 30s and can afford the cars!

[ecapdeville]

Kaciaj, on Jul 8 2005, 12:14 PM, said:

Of course BTW I have a Sicilian surname despite living in Monza since my father is from Sicily...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I will be in Verona (a fast visit) in August... then I will go to Venece, Florence (Firenze) and Rome...maybe then...

[Kaciaj]

kaisersalsek, on Jul 8 2005, 07:12 PM, said:

it's similar in many sports, kids start out at a very early age, they often struggle for the money, they have to make way too many sacrifices for the age they're at, hard work but in the end it will pay off, same as anything really.  And even if you don't make it into F1, just think of everything else you've gained

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If not a pay driver with little talent buy the drive you deserve.....Imagine for example how could have felt many talented F.3000 drivers when Jordan hired Montiero and Karthikeyan.....and when Tiago got his podium just because 6 cars were racing..my god....I wonder what could have thought Felipe Massa or Christian Klien of that....They have talent and they have yet to achieve their frst podium,Monteiro is complete crap and has a podium...