| Rubens Barrichello | Pastor Maldonado | |
| Qualified ahead | 10 | 8 |
| Average qualifying gap | +0.119s | – |
| Finished race ahead | 7 | 5 |
| Laps spent ahead | 481 | 367 |
Qualifying gap
Gap in seconds between Rubens Barrichello 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 | |
| Rubens Barrichello | -0.0279999999999916 | -0.112999999999985 | -0.490999999999985 | -0.47199999999998 | 3.50400000000002 | 0.281000000000006 | 0.317999999999984 | -0.156000000000006 | 0.530999999999963 | 0.408000000000015 | -0.771999999999991 | -0.756999999999991 | -0.0779999999999887 | -0.188000000000017 | -0.144999999999982 | 0.102000000000004 | 0.709999999999994 | -0.50800000000001 |