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Mark Webber broke team-mate Sebastian Vettel’s monopoly of Formula One pole positions as he qualified fastest for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix with a time of 1:20.981.
The Australian Red Bull driver eclipsed his German team-mate Vettel, who had claimed pole in all four previous grands prix of the season so far.
Vettel, who has three race wins from those four poles, set the pace again in Saturday’s final practice, but his best time in qualifying was bettered by the flying Australian by just 0.200secs.
The Red Bulls again looked in dominant form as they will occupy the front row of the grid for the second race in succession, with Webber’s time a second better than third-placed Lewis Hamilton’s mark of 1:21.961. SkySports
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The McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were third and fifth, split by Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Renault’s Vitaly Petrov was sixth from Mercedes’s Nico Rosberg.
There were impressive performances from Petrov and, particularly, Williams’s Pastor Maldonado, who shrugged off a difficult start to his grand prix career by getting into the top 10 qualifying shoot-out for the first time and make ninth spot on the grid, behind Ferrari’s Felipe Massa.
Rosberg’s team-mate Michael Schumacher qualified 10th after opting not to use the faster soft tyres in final qualifying so he has an extra new set for the race, a potential advantage.
The veteran was 0.1secs slower than Rosberg in the second part of qualifying. BBC Sport
Heikki Kovalainen raised huge smiles at Lotus, not only because he qualified 15th on merit on 1m 25.403s, but because that comprehensively out-paced the troubled Force Indias. In the Silverstone team, Paul di Resta once again out-qualified Adrian Sutil, 1m 26.126s to 1m 26.571s, though both did their Q2 runs on hard tyres.
Jarno Trulli jumped to P18 at the end of Q1 (in which Schumacher was quickest with 1m 22.960s) with a lap of 1m 26.521s, but that was not enough to unseat team mate Kovalainen who put Lotus through to Q2 for the first time with 1m 25.874s.
Rubens Barrichello was in trouble with his Williams which spent too much time in the pits due to gearbox trouble, and was 19th on 1m 26.910s. Then came Timo Glock for Virgin on 1m 27.315s ahead of Tonio Liuzzi in the lead HRT on 1m 27.809s and his team mate Narain Karthikeyan on 1m 27.908s. Formula 1
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