Formula One championship leader Mark Webber completed a hat-trick of pole positions at the Turkish Grand Prix on Saturday to hammer home Red Bull’s qualifying supremacy.
The Australian, winner of the last two grands prix from the top slot, was nearly half a second quicker than German team mate Sebastian Vettel as he chalked up Red Bull’s seventh pole in seven races. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton joined Webber on the front row while Vettel, who is level on 78 points with Webber but behind on race wins, took the third slot next to world champion Jenson Button in the other McLaren.
‘It’s a great record, it shows tremendous pace in the car,’ said Webber of the run of poles. ‘It’s a real credit to the whole team,’ he added, fully aware that the driver starting on pole in Turkey has won four of the five races at the undulating and anti-clockwise Istanbul Park circuit. Straits Times
Hamilton’s McLaren team-mate defending champion and fellow-Briton Jenson Button was fourth ahead of German comeback kid Michael Schumacher, 41, of Mercedes.
His Mercedes team-mate and fellow-German Nico Rosberg was sixth ahead of Pole Robert Kubica of Renault with Brazilian Felipe Massa eighth for Ferrari. His team-mate Spaniard Fernando Alonso was only down in 12th.
Kubica’s Renault team-mate Russian Vitaly Petrov was ninth and Japanese Kamui Kobayashi 10th for Sauber. AFP
The times in Q2 were incredibly close, with half a second covering third fastest Lewis Hamilton down to 11th fastest Force India’s Adrian Sutil. The major surprise of Q2 was Fernando Alonso’s failure to make it through. He’d been on the bubble when what looked like a quick lap was spoiled as the Ferrari twitched into oversteer in the final sequence of corners. That lap ruined, the Spaniard failed on his next try, too.
He was not the fastest of the fallers, however. That was Sutil who did a great job but just couldn’t squeeze more than 1m 27.525s out of his Force India. Then came Alonso on 1m 27.612s, BMW Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa on 1m 27.879s, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi on 1m 28.273s, Williams’ Rubens Barrichello on 1m 28.392s, Toro Rosso’s Jaime Alguersuari on 1m 28.540s and Nico Hulkenberg on 1m 28.841s in the second Williams. Formula 1
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