McGuinness produced a lap time of 131.7mph during the Dundrod 150 - a world-record time for a road race.
Momentum effortlessly maintained from karting into cars, just like his silky driving style converted his corner-entry momentum into lap time.
Button's team-mate Lewis Hamilton admitted that traffic problems were likely, but said it was still possible to put in a good lap time.
Yes, the low downforce wing made it easier to make such errors but was not in itself the cause of the poor lap time.
In the high performance-driving classes, drivers work on autocross, skid pad control and threshold braking, as well as spend lap time on the racetrack.
Patrick, who is still looking for her first win in Nascar, earned the top spot after recording the fastest lap time during qualifying last weekend.
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Unfortunately in qualifying, on the second tire -- with which I could have improved -- I was stuck in traffic so could not improve my lap time and lost some positions.
"They were telling me to save fuel too but they didn't put a lap time on it - just said you have got to save a bit of fuel, " added Button.
Even though several days of cold, wind and rain gave way to warmer spring temperatures at Phillip Island, the Spaniard was feeling under the weather, struggling to the sixth fastest lap time.
"We were really comfortable and competitive on this track, but when I had my last chance to do a quick lap time I found some slower riders on track and they wanted to follow me, " said Lorenzo.
The Spaniard traded fastest lap times with team-mate Sebastien Buemi in a quiet opening half hour and improved his lap time by over six seconds, but he still finished the session in 20th position, one place behind his team-mate.
Unlike Hulkenberg, who set his fastest lap on one short run, Alonso's was set during a number of formidable-looking runs, in which he produced a set of consistently quick times around the same pace as his fastest lap time.
Toseland, who enjoyed his best performance of last season at this circuit, was among the pacesetters over the opening laps and ended up seventh fastest despite his misdemeanour - merely a result of pushing the front end too hard as he chased an improved lap time.
The same elimination process will happen at the end of the second 15 minutes, with the next six slowest cars knocked out to fill places 11 to 16 on the grid in lap-time order.
For any lap outside that time, a driver is docked one lap's worth of fuel for the race, which harms his strategy.
It is a major change from the last three seasons, when drivers had just one lap to set their time but they ran alone on the track.
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Alonso lost vital time and gave up on the lap and he could not set a quick-enough time on his final circuit to go through.
Danns, 28, regrets that her time as a lap dancer made her a harder, more cynical person.
The Ferrari was lightning-quick in the final sector of his qualifying lap at Hockenheim and finished with a time of one minute 13.306 seconds.
He is absolutely loving it at the moment, he treats every lap as if it's a qualifying lap and is pushing himself all the time.
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After three of the four days of running, Schumacher has set the fastest time in Jerez with a lap he recorded on the second day.
With 1300 meters still to go, Hackett kept up the pace, passing through 400 in 3:53.46, better than Brad Cooper's winning time for the eight-lap final in 1972.
Two-time world champion Alonso braved the testing morning weather to clock the best lap of one minute 25.252 seconds with teammate Massa setting the second quickest time.
He has the slight pudge of a person who spends too much time with a laptop on his lap.
Anstey beat the lap record twice, posting a best new time of 128.40mph, and he also broke the race record by more than a minute.
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Now that I sit squarely in the lap of midlife, that endless road of time that once stretched out ahead of me doesn't seem quite so long anymore.
The wet weather slowed down the drivers considerably, Webber's time three seconds slower than the fastest lap of the week, set by Ferrari's Felipe Massa.
By rights, the F12 shouldn't be able to do what Ferrari says it can do, which is to lap the Fiorano circuit, the company's time-honored reference track, in 1:23.
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By the end of the first lap he was already two seconds up on the leading time and went on to clock a series of sub-30 seconds laps as he moved with grace and power across the ice.
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