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Vettel on course after taking Singapore pole
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September 25, 2011, Sunday
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WORLD championship leader Sebastian Vettel took pole position last night for the Formula One Singapore Grand Prix as he attempts to seal back-to-back titles.
The Red Bull driver clinched his 11th pole of the season - becoming the sixth man in F1 history to achieve that feat - by setting a time more than three tenths of a second faster than his teammate Mark Webber.
There was a neat symmetry to the top 10 grid placings, with each line monopolized by a different team for the F1 calendar's only night race.
The McLaren pair Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton will start third and fourth in tonight's race at the Marina Bay circuit - ahead of the Ferrari pair of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.
Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg of Mercedes qualified seventh and eight respectively for the street circuit race, and Force India's Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta will start ninth and 10th.
Vettel joined Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen as drivers to have topped qualifying 11 times in a season, with the German closing in on Mansell's outright record of 14 set in 1992.
"Nigel's record is exceptional," Vettel said. "Nigel had an incredible year."
"We are not doing a bad job this year but it would be wrong to start thinking about these things (records). We don't score points in qualifying so we are thinking about the race tomorrow."
The German can claim the title if he gets 13 more points than Alonso and 8 more than Webber and Button.
The Red Bull driver clinched his 11th pole of the season - becoming the sixth man in F1 history to achieve that feat - by setting a time more than three tenths of a second faster than his teammate Mark Webber.
There was a neat symmetry to the top 10 grid placings, with each line monopolized by a different team for the F1 calendar's only night race.
The McLaren pair Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton will start third and fourth in tonight's race at the Marina Bay circuit - ahead of the Ferrari pair of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa.
Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg of Mercedes qualified seventh and eight respectively for the street circuit race, and Force India's Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta will start ninth and 10th.
Vettel joined Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Schumacher and Mika Hakkinen as drivers to have topped qualifying 11 times in a season, with the German closing in on Mansell's outright record of 14 set in 1992.
"Nigel's record is exceptional," Vettel said. "Nigel had an incredible year."
"We are not doing a bad job this year but it would be wrong to start thinking about these things (records). We don't score points in qualifying so we are thinking about the race tomorrow."
The German can claim the title if he gets 13 more points than Alonso and 8 more than Webber and Button.
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