Sebastian Vettel (1st)“On the last run, I maybe tried a bit too much going into the really tricky chicane around Turn 10. I think I could have made it, but I decided to abort the lap, as it can be so easy to damage the car. I was happy with my first lap - I think the track ramped up a little bit by the end, so it was possible to go faster, but all in all it was a perfect session and I’m very happy, especially around here. It’s a very fun track and a big challenge. It’s difficult with so many corners and it’s a long lap to get everything together, but we kept our heads cool and did it today. It’s great we have both cars on the front row, but let’s see tomorrow, it’s a very, very long race.”
Mark Webber (2nd)“I’m pretty happy with that. It’s been a pretty testing venue for me in the past, particularly on Saturdays, although racing I normally go a bit better around here. Seb laid it down pretty hard and fast for all of us today – he’s very quick round here and he did a great job for the pole. It’s pretty rare he makes a mistake. He was very quick for the whole lap and to put it all together for all of us is very challenging here - it’s easy to make up a bit, but then lose it on the next straight. Overall I’m satisfied and given the curveballs that teams can face around here to have both cars up there is a great result for us.”
Christian Horner, Red Bull team principal“A fantastic team performance. To secure an all front row is phenomenal and it’s our best qualifying performance in Singapore. It was a tricky qualifying session, navigating the traffic early on and needing to get clean laps. It came down to Q3 and Sebastian produced a phenomenal first lap which was good enough for pole. On the second run he made a small mistake at Turn 10 and aborted the lap to save the tyres, which puts him in great shape for tomorrow. Mark made a big step on the last run - it was a good effort from him at a track which he has not been totally comfortable at all weekend, so a great performance by him and a great effort by the team to have locked out the front row.”
Q3 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m44.381s2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m44.732s 3. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m44.804s 4. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m44.809s 5. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m44.874s 6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m45.800s 7. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m46.013s 8. Michael Schumacher Mercedes no time9. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes no time10 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes no time
Q2 11 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m47.616s 12 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m48.082s 13 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1m48.270s 14 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m48.634s 15 Bruno Senna Renault 1m48.662s 16 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m49.862s 17 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari No time
Q1 18 Vitaly Petrov Renault 1m49.835s 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1m50.948s 20 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1m51.012s 21 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m52.154s 22 Jerome D'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1m52.363s 23 Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 1m52.404s 24 Tonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 1m52.810s
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