F1 GP Bahrain 2010 Qualifying: Vettel pole

Reuters

Red Bull prove to be one candidate champions this season. In the opening qualifying series Bahrain GP 2010, the team placed Sebastian Vettel as the pole winner and followed by Felipe Massa.

In the qualifying session, held at Sakhir Circuit, Saturday (13/3/2010) , Red Bull and Ferrari was involved in fierce competition Q3 session. The Prancing Horse first place winner with Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa in the position of one-two in mid-Q3 period.

But in the last minute Vettel Ferrari duo managed to displace it and grabbed pole position for the race Sunday (14/3/2010) tomorrow. Create Vettel, this is the sixth pole position throughout his F1 career.

Will start the race from third position is Fernando Alonso, while the sequence of four optional champ McLaren Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton. Nico Rosberg of the Mercedes Grand Prix grid will be sitting in fifth at the beginning of the race tomorrow.

Meanwhile, Michael Schumacher grabbed a pretty good result in this qualifying session. Seven-time world champion who had decided to comeback with Mercedes GP was sitting in seventh position. He managed to beat the world champion in 2009, Jenson Button who was right behind him.

As widely expected, the newcomers in F1 can not talk much in the opening qualifying session this season. Timo Glock and Luca Grassi of the Virgin, Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna from HRT F1 Team mate Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen, who carried out Lotus on the first session.

While Q2 just walked stressful for the world champion Jenson Button. He had escaped to ensure Q3 in minutes and last lap session with a record far from satisfactory because it was in the position of the sequence 10 aka the belly.

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull racing is the fastest in Q2. He was followed by Fernando Alonso in second position and Mark Webber in the third step.

List of drivers who went out in the second segment is Rubbens Barrichello, Vitantanio Liuzzi, 1Nico Hulkenberg, Pedro De La Rosa, Sebastian Buemi, kamui Kobayashi and Vitaly Petrov.

Bahrain GP qualifying results

Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
1. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:55.029 1:53.883 1:54.101
2. Massa Ferrari 1:55.313 1:54.331 1:54.242
3. Alonso Ferrari 1:54.612 1:54.172 1:54.608
4. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:55.341 1:54.707 1:55.217
5. Rosberg Mercedes 1:55.463 1:54.682 1:55.241
6. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:55.298 1:54.318 1:55.284
7. Schumacher Mercedes 1:55.593 1:55.105 1:55.524
8. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:55.715 1:55.168 1:55.672
9. Kubica Renault 1:55.511 1:54.963 1:55.885
10. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:55.213 1:54.996 1:56.309
11. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:55.969 1:55.330
12. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:55.628 1:55.653
13. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:56.375 1:55.857
14. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:56.428 1:56.237
15. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:56.189 1:56.265
16. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:56.541 1:56.270
17. Petrov Renault 1:56.167 1:56.619
18. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:57.071
19. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:59.728
20. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:59.852
21. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 2:00.313
22. in Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 2:00.587
23. Senna HRT-Cosworth 2:03.240
24. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 2:04.904