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Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix, after beating Lewis Hamilton with the final lap of a close qualifying session at Sepang.
Hamilton set the initial pace in the final session with a 1:35.000, with Vettel 0.1 seconds behind, Webber a similar distance back and Button fourth. Then on their second runs, Hamilton reduced his time, while neither Webber nor Button could beat him despite improving on their initial efforts. With the last lap though, Vettel pulled out the lap he needed to take pole by just 0.104s.
Fernando Alonso was fifth quickest, over half a second slower than Button immediately ahead of him, followed by Nick Heidfeld and Felipe Massa, with Vitaly Petrov, Nico Rosberg and Kamui Kobayashi rounding out the top ten. ESPN F1
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It proved to be a dramatic end to the middle 15-minute qualifying stint because, with the clock beyond zero, on his final flying lap Rosberg dumped team-mate Michael Schumacher out of Q3. For the second successive race the seven-times champion will start from 11th on the grid, finishing almost 0.7secs adrift of his fellow German.
Behind Schumacher will be Sebastien Buemi, who endured a scare in the initial 20-minute session when a piece of bodywork flew off his Toro Rosso. With the left-hand sidepod lying on the track, the session was red flagged in order for a marshal to run on and retrieve it, causing a four-minute delay.
Team-mate Jaime Alguersuari starts one place behind in 13th, with Paul di Resta again performing admirably. The Scot will line up 14th in his Force India, more than 0.2secs and three places ahead of team-mate Adrian Sutil who has Williams’ Rubens Barrichello and Sergio Perez in his Sauber also ahead of him. The Press Association
Lotus duo Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli start 19th and 20th, with Williams’ Pastor Maldonado the man to miss out on a place in Q2 by 0.113secs to team-mate Barrichello.
Virgin Racing pair Timo Glock and Jerome D’Ambrosio line up on the 11th row in 21st and 22nd places with the Hispania Racing duo of Vitantonio Liuzzi and Narain Karthikeyan bringing up the rear. Bedfordshire News
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