Sentence examples for qualifying performance from inspiring English sources

But an indifferent qualifying performance was followed by a poor race.

Maradona had been under huge pressure after an unimpressive qualifying performance left his team on the verge of facing a play-off to reach South Africa.

Michael Schumacher will start today's race in 15th place, his worst qualifying performance of the year, and you have to go back to Japan in 2005, when he was 14th, to find a comparable failure.

The returns of Clancy, who assumed his customary man 1 role in leading the team at the start, and Burke gave the team a solid look and a comfortable qualifying performance.

With an unexpectedly strong qualifying performance on Saturday at the Nürburgring, finishing second to Mark Webber, the No. 2 driver for Red Bull, Lewis Hamilton was positioned to further surprise himself and the field at the German Grand Prix on Sunday.

That was the result of another quite stunning qualifying performance from Hamilton.

"And our qualifying performances are a consequence of that.

And the bulk of their qualifying performances, called norms, have been at home.

Vettel's Red Bull have reliability issues and Ferrari are worried about their qualifying performances.

Mercedes have scored only one championship point this season – courtesy of Schumacher in Malaysia – but their qualifying performances have been strong, and this was the best yet.

One of the greatest England World Cup qualifying performances came in 1982, as Ron Greenwood's gaggle of losers suddenly remembered how to play football in Hungary.