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Vettel claims pole in Bahrain
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April 22, 2012, Sunday
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RED Bull's Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel took his first pole position of the season in qualifying for the controversial Bahrain Grand Prix yesterday.
The 24-year-old German will have McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton alongside him on the front row for today's race, the fourth round of the season, which will go ahead against a backdrop of anti-government protests elsewhere.
Vettel's Australian teammate Mark Webber was third quickest and shares the second row with McLaren's Jenson Button.
The pole was the 31st for Vettel, who took a record 15 last season but had failed to get on the front row in the first three races of this year.
He celebrated his achievement at the desert track outside Manama, even if there appeared to be few paying spectators present to witness it, with his familiar single finger in the air.
"This one I completely owe it to the team," said the champion, who had a scare in the first phase when he dropped dangerously close to the cut-off point after assuming he had done enough.
"The boys, I don't think had much sleep the last four races. It was a tough weekend in China and now here they seriously have a lack of sleep."
The first three races have seen three different winners, without a Red Bull driver on the top step, and Vettel has a good chance of making it four.
The Force India cars were almost invisible on the feed provided by Formula One Management, despite Britain's Paul Di Resta qualifying 10th.
Germany's Nico Rosberg, who took his first win after 111 starts in Shanghai last weekend, qualified fifth for Mercedes.
His teammate Michael Schumacher, the seven-time world champion, will start 17th after being slowed by a rear wing problem that allowed Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen to leapfrog him and get into the second session. Australian Daniel Ricciardo put his Toro Rosso in sixth place.
The 24-year-old German will have McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton alongside him on the front row for today's race, the fourth round of the season, which will go ahead against a backdrop of anti-government protests elsewhere.
Vettel's Australian teammate Mark Webber was third quickest and shares the second row with McLaren's Jenson Button.
The pole was the 31st for Vettel, who took a record 15 last season but had failed to get on the front row in the first three races of this year.
He celebrated his achievement at the desert track outside Manama, even if there appeared to be few paying spectators present to witness it, with his familiar single finger in the air.
"This one I completely owe it to the team," said the champion, who had a scare in the first phase when he dropped dangerously close to the cut-off point after assuming he had done enough.
"The boys, I don't think had much sleep the last four races. It was a tough weekend in China and now here they seriously have a lack of sleep."
The first three races have seen three different winners, without a Red Bull driver on the top step, and Vettel has a good chance of making it four.
The Force India cars were almost invisible on the feed provided by Formula One Management, despite Britain's Paul Di Resta qualifying 10th.
Germany's Nico Rosberg, who took his first win after 111 starts in Shanghai last weekend, qualified fifth for Mercedes.
His teammate Michael Schumacher, the seven-time world champion, will start 17th after being slowed by a rear wing problem that allowed Caterham's Heikki Kovalainen to leapfrog him and get into the second session. Australian Daniel Ricciardo put his Toro Rosso in sixth place.
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