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World champion Sebastian Vettel will start from pole Sunday in Formula One’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix after a dominant performance in qualifying Saturday.
The Red Bull driver had a time of 1 minute, 23.529 seconds, more than three-quarters of a second quicker than nearest rival Lewis Hamilton of McLaren.
“It’s a good position to be in. It’s the best position, pole position, so I’m very happy with that,” Vettel said. “But we need to keep our feet on the ground and see how we get on tomorrow.”
Red Bull’s Mark Webber will start third in front of his home crowd, with Jenson Button of McLaren fourth as he attempts to win the race for a third straight year.
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Hamilton’s performance to split the Red Bull cars was an impressive one, and McLaren reaped the reward for making some bold changes to the car after trouble off-season testing.
“It was a very brave and tough decision for us to pull back from what we’d been developing over the winter test,” said Hamilton, the 2008 series champion. “And after the last test to come back and decide we were going to go in another direction. Since I’ve been here, we’ve never ever done that before.” The Canadian Press
POS DRIVER ENTRANT TIME 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 01:23.5 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 01:24.3 3 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 01:24.4 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 01:24.8 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 01:25.0 6 Vitaly Petrov Renault 01:25.2 7 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 01:25.4 8 Felipe Massa Ferrari 01:25.6 9 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 01:25.6 10 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 01:27.1 Q2 11 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 01:26.0 12 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 01:26.1 13 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 01:26.1 14 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 01:26.7 15 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 01:26.8 16 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 01:31.4 17 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth No Time Q1 18 Nick Heidfeld Renault 01:27.2 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 01:29.3 20 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 01:29.3 21 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 01:29.9 22 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 01:30.8 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 01:33.0 24 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 01:34.3
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