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World championship leader Sebastian Vettel secured his fifth pole position of the season after posting the fastest time in yesterday’s crash-marred qualifying session at the Monaco Grand Prix.
Vettel’s lap time of 1 minute 13.556 seconds seconds gave Red Bull its sixth straight pole, ahead of McLaren’s Jenson Button and Vettel’s Australian teammate Mark Webber. Sydney Morning Herald
“It is a long race always here, a bit of a casino,” said Vettel. “Seventy-eight laps is a long race and as we have seen grands prix this year with multiple pit stops that could change in the last minutes. But one thing that remains unchanged is that pole position is very important here. All eyes are on tomorrow’s race and we have to push hard - so we will see what we can do.
“All in all I am very happy with qualifying, starting on the clean side, so it couldn’t be any better.” ESPN
Just after the world champion had gone fastest, the session was red flagged with 2m 26s remaining when Sergio Perez, who had done a great job to run ninth in Q2, lost his Sauber over the bumps exiting the tunnel.
Perez was wider off line than Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg had been in the morning, but thereafter his accident followed the trend of the German’s as he crashed first into the right-hand barriers. That crushed the right-hand side of the C30, which then ran down the road and broadsided, on the right-hand side again, into the same chicane wall that Sauber driver Karl Wendlinger had struck back in 1994. Formula 1
Pos No Driver Team 1 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 2 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 3 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 4 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 5 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 6 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 7 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 8 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 9 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 10 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 11 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 12 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 13 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 14 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 15 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 16 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 17 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 18 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 19 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 20 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 21 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 22 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 23 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 24 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth
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