Williams buoyed despite missing Q3
Williams technical director Sam Michael said the team could still take great encouragement from Turkish Grand Prix qualifying even though it did not quite achieve its goal of a Q3 spot. Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado took 11th and 14th on the grid, the team's best combined qualifying effort of the year so far, and the Brazilian was within 0.024 seconds of reaching the top 10 shoot-out. Michael was buoyed by that performance given that the team had had to revert to an older-spec rear wing and Maldonado was without KERS
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