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Posted: April 17th, 2010 | By Thomas Falkiner


Vettel wins pole in China

Red Bull Racing dominated today’s qualifying session for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix with both their cars securing the top two positions on the grid. 22-Year-old Sebastian Vettel will be starting the race in pole after setting a scorching lap-time of 1: 34.558 seconds. Mark Webber is 0.248-seconds behind Vettel in second position. Meanwhile, 0.355-second behind Webber, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso managed to clinch third, with Mercedes GP’s Nico Rosberg finishing right behind him in fourth. Interestingly enough Rosberg’s team-mate, Michael Schumacher, is down in a lowly ninth. Jenson Button qualified fifth in his McLaren, one position ahead of his team-mate Lewis Hamilton in sixth. Seventh went to Felipe Massa in the other Ferrari, eighth to Robert Kubica in the leading Renault and ninth to the afore-mentioned Schumacher. Tenth position is filled by the ever-surprising Adrian Sutil in his Force India. See below for all the official grid times:

1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1min 34.558secs

2 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:34.806

3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:34.913

4 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:34.923

5 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 1:34.979

6 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 1:35.034

7 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:35.180

8 Robert Kubica (Pol) Renault 1:35.364

9 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:35.646

10 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India 1:35.963

11 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Williams 1:35.748

12 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:36.047

13 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:36.149

14 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault 1:36.311

15 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) BMW Sauber 1:36.422

16 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Williams 1:36.647

17 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) BMW Sauber 1:37.020

18 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) Force India 1:37.161

19 Timo Glock (Ger) Virgin Racing 1:39.278

20 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Lotus F1 1:39.399

21 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Lotus F1 1:39.520

22 Lucas di Grassi (Bra) Virgin Racing 1:39.783

23 Bruno Senna (Bra) HRT-F1 1:40.469

24 Karun Chandhok (Ind) HRT-F1 1:40.578

 
 
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