During Q1, most of the drivers don’t push that hard to set a time to get into the top 17 for Q2. The cars run very light during Q2 to set their quickest time for the top 10 to get into Q3, where they qualify with fuel they’ll carry for the whole race.

When the qualifying sessions are over each car must give a 1lt sample of fuel for testing in case there is any funny business going on, anything less than that is an automatic penalty regardless of where you start on the grid. The tricky thing is, if you’re running in Q2 with minimum fuel onboard, very close to leaving 1lt in the tank, and you finish the session without running out of fuel or crashing etc and make it into Q3, you’re fine. Run with less than 1lt of fuel onboard and you have issues, you’re going to get a penalty, simple as.

Webber just happened to have a bit of bad luck and balls up his own race, as well as the teams’ and Vergne’s and Red Bull’s sister team Torro Rosso’s.

And speaking of which; Webber has been given a three place grid penalty for the next race for making an half ar$ed move on Vergne and causing a collision.

Is that clear enough for you, Mr. Needham? I do hope so, Mr. Needham!