The 24-year-old German now possesses the record for outright number of poles in a single season after matching the previous best mark of 14, posted by Nigel Mansell in 1992, two weeks ago in Abu Dhabi.
Underlining Red Bull’s superiority, Mark Webber managed to lock out the front row for the team, finishing 0.117secs behind Vettel.
All the McLarens could manage was third and fourth, albeit with Jenson Button out-qualifying Lewis Hamilton for the seventh time this year - the latter half a second behind Vettel.
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, as he expected, was fifth ahead of Nico Rosberg in his Mercedes, who has the second Ferrari of Felipe Massa behind him.
Force India’s Adrian Sutil, in what was almost certainly his last qualifying session for the team ahead of an anticipated move to Williams, was a superb eighth.
Bruno Senna, who is expected to make way for Romain Grosjean next season, was ninth in his Renault, out-qualifying Vitaly Petrov for the fifth time in eight races, with Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher 10th. Telegraph.co.uk
Force India’s Paul di Resta made two unsuccessful attempts to better 1m 13.584s and thus found himself 11th after a late improvement from Schumacher lifted the German veteran to 10th on 1m 13.571s.
Rubens Barrichello did a strong job for 12th in what could be his last qualifying performance, taking his Williams round in 1m 13.801s. Jaime Alguersuari was very little slower with 1m 13.804s, with Toro Rosso team mate Sebastien Buemi right behind him on 1m 13.919s. Renault’s Vitaly Petrov improved late on, but 1m 14.053s was only enough for 15th ahead of the Saubers, whose form slumped as Kamui Kobayashi lapped in 1m 14.129s and Sergio Perez in 1m 14.182s.
As the McLarens set the pace with Button in 1m 13.281s just ahead of Hamilton, Pastor Maldonado was the fastest of those who failed to get through Q1, taking his Williams round in 1m 14.625s compared to 17th-placed Kobayashi’s 1m 14.571s. Behind him, the Lotus drivers were close right up until the very last second of the session, with the verdict of 19th place going to Heikki Kovalainen with 1m 15.068s as Jarno Trulli came up with 1m 15.358s. Formula 1
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