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World championship leader Sebastian Vettel took the pole position Saturday for the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver clinched his 11th pole of the season—becoming the sixth man in F1 history to achieve that feat—by setting a time more than three-tenths of a second faster than his teammate Mark Webber.
The McLaren pair Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton were third- and fourth-fastest around the Marina Bay circuit, ahead of the Ferrari pair of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.
Vettel can claim the championship this weekend if he gets 13 more points than Alonso and eight more than Webber and Button.
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Right at the end Sauber’s Sergio Perez bumped Di Resta with 1m 47.616s, but the Scot was on a lap too, and immediately took the final Q3 place back with 1m 47.486s.
The Mexican was thus the first of the second batch, ahead of the Williamses of Rubens Barrichello and Pastor Maldonado on 1m 48.082s and 1m 48.270s respectively. Then came Sebastien Buemi on 1m 48.634s for Toro Rosso, Bruno Senna on 1m 48.662s for Renault, and Jaime Alguersuari on 1m 48.862s in the second STR06. Kobayashi will line up 17th with no time.
Vettel headed Q1 by half a second from Button, with Hamilton and Alonso close behind, but further back a late improvement put Senna into 15th place and Q2 at the expense of Renault team mate Vitaly Petrov. The Russian was thus the first faller, in 18th place, on 1m 49.835s.
The Renault-powered Lotuses of Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli followed him with 1m 50.948s and 1m 51.012s respectively, ahead of a tight battle between the Virgins and the HRTs. Formula 1
Pos No Driver Team 1 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 2 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 3 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 4 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 5 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 6 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 7 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 8 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 9 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 10 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 11 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 12 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 13 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 14 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 15 9 Bruno Senna Renault 16 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 17 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 18 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 19 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 20 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 21 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 22 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 23 22 Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 24 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth
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