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Sebastian Vettel maintained his perfect qualifying record in 2011 by storming to pole position for the Turkish Grand Prix.
Having already taken top spot at each of the first three rounds of the season, the world champion set a time of 1 minute 25.049 seconds to comfortably see off the competition at Istanbul Park.
Mark Webber completed an all-Red Bull front row by setting the second fastest time, while Nico Rosberg gave Mercedes a lift by grabbing third place.
Neither of them came close to Vettel, however, who finished over four tenths ahead of his team-mate and more than half a second up on Rosberg.
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Lewis Hamilton had to settle for fourth place in front of Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, who split the two McLarens with Jenson Button in sixth. SkySports
Vitaly Petrov was Renault’s faster runner with 1m 26.296s earning him seventh slot, ahead of Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher (1m 26.646s) and his own team mate, Nick Heidfeld (1m 26.659s). Felipe Massa will be tenth on the grid in the second Ferrari, but mechanical problems prevented him from doing a lap in Q3.
Rubens Barrichello so nearly gave the troubled Williams team something to cheer about in Q2, but Heidfeld bumped him from tenth place and Q3 in the dying moments of the session. Thus, in a session dominated by Vettel from Rosberg, Hamilton and Webber, the Brazilian finished up 11th with 1m 26.764s.
Pos No Driver Team 1 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 2 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 3 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 4 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 5 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 6 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 7 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 8 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 9 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault 10 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 11 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 12 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 13 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 14 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 15 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 16 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 17 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 18 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 19 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 20 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 21 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 22 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 23 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari
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