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Vettel beats Webber to pole for South Korea GP
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October 24, 2010, Sunday
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SEBASTIAN Vettel seized pole position for the inaugural South Korean Grand Prix yesterday, forcing Red Bull teammate and Formula One championship leader Mark Webber to settle for second.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will line up together on the second row of the grid in third and fourth places, respectively, for what could be a wet race in Yeongam today.
McLaren's world champion Jenson Button, the fifth title contender who is 31 points adrift of Webber, qualified only seventh after struggling to get heat in his tires on the slippery surface.
"With so little running yesterday and this morning, it was a pretty good achievement," said Vettel of his ninth pole of the season.
Webber is 14 points clear of double world champion Alonso and Vettel, with two races remaining after Yeongam. Hamilton is a further 14 points adrift.
The championship leader must start on the dirty side of an already very dusty track but, after shaking Vettel's hand and congratulating him on a job well done, he played down the significance of that.
"Fernando will probably be pretty solid off the line but its not going to make or break the world championship," said Webber, who will have a fresh engine for the race unlike his opponents.
Vettel's pole was also Red Bull's 14th and the team's eighth front row lockout. The last driver to rack up so many poles in a single season was compatriot Michael Schumacher in 2001.
Button was the big loser of the afternoon, with the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg and Ferrari's Felipe Massa between him and his rivals, and faces an uphill battle to stay in the title hunt.
Renault's Robert Kubica, who topped the time sheets in morning practice, qualified in eighth, ahead of Mercedes' Schumacher and Williams' Rubens Barrichello.
The latter two, long-time antagonists since their uneven partnership at Ferrari, had another dispute, with the Brazilian accusing the seven-time world champion of blocking him during the second part of qualifying.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will line up together on the second row of the grid in third and fourth places, respectively, for what could be a wet race in Yeongam today.
McLaren's world champion Jenson Button, the fifth title contender who is 31 points adrift of Webber, qualified only seventh after struggling to get heat in his tires on the slippery surface.
"With so little running yesterday and this morning, it was a pretty good achievement," said Vettel of his ninth pole of the season.
Webber is 14 points clear of double world champion Alonso and Vettel, with two races remaining after Yeongam. Hamilton is a further 14 points adrift.
The championship leader must start on the dirty side of an already very dusty track but, after shaking Vettel's hand and congratulating him on a job well done, he played down the significance of that.
"Fernando will probably be pretty solid off the line but its not going to make or break the world championship," said Webber, who will have a fresh engine for the race unlike his opponents.
Vettel's pole was also Red Bull's 14th and the team's eighth front row lockout. The last driver to rack up so many poles in a single season was compatriot Michael Schumacher in 2001.
Button was the big loser of the afternoon, with the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg and Ferrari's Felipe Massa between him and his rivals, and faces an uphill battle to stay in the title hunt.
Renault's Robert Kubica, who topped the time sheets in morning practice, qualified in eighth, ahead of Mercedes' Schumacher and Williams' Rubens Barrichello.
The latter two, long-time antagonists since their uneven partnership at Ferrari, had another dispute, with the Brazilian accusing the seven-time world champion of blocking him during the second part of qualifying.
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