
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