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Vettel on pole for Korean GP

Red Bull’s Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel grabbed pole position at the Korean Grand Prix in Yeongam yesterday while closest title rival Fernando Alonso qualified only fifth for Ferrari.

Vettel, who chalked up his third pole position in a row, will have Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes to keep him company on the front row for today’s race but the German’s car was once again comfortably quicker.

Vettel’s flying lap of one minute 37.202 seconds was 0.218 seconds faster than 2008 world champion Hamilton, who had kept him off the top of the timesheets in both Friday practice sessions.

The German is 60 points clear of Alonso in the standings, with five races to go after Yeongam, and is chasing his fourth consecutive win with a fourth successive title fast approaching.

Alonso would have been further down the grid had Australian Mark Webber, Vettel’s teammate, not collected a 10-place penalty for taking a post-race ‘taxi ride’ on the Spaniard’s car in Singapore two weeks ago.

Webber, who was on pole in Korea last year, qualified third but will start outside the top 10.

Vettel and Alonso are the only drivers to have won in Korea since the race made its debut in 2010 and Red Bull’s triple champion is chasing his hat-trick at Yeongam.

Alonso will have both Mercedes drivers ahead of him with Nico Rosberg lining up in fourth place and Lotus’s Romain Grosjean in third, right behind Vettel.

Both the Saubers made it into the top 10, with Nico Hulkenberg to start seventh ahead of Esteban Gutierrez.




 

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