Sebastian Vettel grabbed pole position with an exciting last minuet dash that grabbed pole position from the seemingly-unbeatable Lewis Hamilton. In the dying seconds of the session Jenson Button also had a go for pole and all-but matched Hamilton’s time to take third place ahead of Felipe Massa, who humbled team-mate Fernando Alonso for the first time in a long while. Mark Webber had a disappointing time ending up sixth, ahead of Nico Rosberg, the man who has a lock on seventh place this year. Eighth was Adrian Sutil who outclassed Michael Schumacher on this occasion. Sergio Perez saved tyres and did not go out, but remained 10th on the grid.
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Considering last year this was a definate red bull track and people were expecting RB to go back to at least .5 sec advantage it will make for an interesting race. Vettel usually has Mark as rear gunner to block while he runs off up the road.
Great to see Massa outqualify Alonso – but still needs to find the extra half a second!!!