| Nico Rosberg | Michael Schumacher | |
| Qualified ahead | 15 | 2 |
| Average qualifying gap | -0.366s | – |
| Finished race ahead | 7 | 6 |
| Laps spent ahead | 615 | 258 |
Qualifying gap
Gap in seconds between Nico Rosberg and his team mate in the last part of qualifying where both set a time, for each race.
A positive time means the driver was slower than his team mate, a negative time means they were faster:
https://www.racefans.net/charts/2011drivercolours.csv
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | |
| Nico Rosberg | -0.364999999999995 | -0.647000000000006 | -0.606999999999985 | -1.072 | -0.102000000000004 | 1.08399999999999 | -0.0500000000000114 | -0.00899999999997192 | -0.361000000000004 | -1.21900000000001 | -0.809000000000012 | 0.700000000000017 | 0.362000000000009 | -0.461999999999989 | -0.782000000000011 | -0.889000000000024 | -1.00200000000001 |