Briton Lewis Hamilton claimed the 17th pole position of his career on Saturday when he topped the times in a floodlit qualifying session for Sunday’s inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The 24-year-old Englishman, in his McLaren-Mercedes, continued the domination he has enjoyed for most of the weekend by clocking a best lap of one minute and 40.948 seconds, with a heavy fuel load, in the top ten shoot-out. AFP
Sebastian Vettel qualifies second. Vettel’s teammate, Mark Webber, will start from third on Sunday, ahead of the Brawn GP teammates Rubens Barrichello and Jenson Button.
Toyota’s Jarno Trulli and BMW Sauber duo Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld are sixth, seventh and eighth, with Nico Rosberg in his Williams ninth and Sebastien Buemi 10th for Toro Rosso.
POS DRIVER ENTRANT 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 2 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 3 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 4 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 5 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 6 Jarno Trulli Toyota 7 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 8 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 9 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 10 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 11 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 12 Kamui Kobayashi Toyota 13 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 14 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 15 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 16 Fernando Alonso Renault 17 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 18 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 19 Romain Grosjean Renault 20 Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari
