Sebastian Vettel 1st“I went off in the free practice yesterday and damaged the front wing, so it wasn’t ideal to prepare the car for today. We suffered a bit from that this morning regarding the car’s balance and were too slow. We sat down after P3 and looked at where we could improve and we were able to extract everything out of the car in qualifying, which was crucial. There wasn’t much between me and Jenson! I want to say thanks to the team and the factory for getting another front wing out for me, I would not sit here now without them, so I’m very happy and very proud. Regarding one point or no point tomorrow, I’m not focusing on that. I had a lesson yesterday where for a little moment I wasn’t 100 percent focused and lost the car. Tomorrow is a long race and it’s challenging; I’m looking forward to it. We really love to come here, it’s a special atmosphere and the fans are so passionate and crazy. When we leave the hotel in the morning, it’s full of people and they’re all screaming, so it’s a nice feeling to be part of that and starting from pole tomorrow will be special. It’s a long race and a lot of things can happen.”
Mark Webber 6th“I’m very surprised to be sixth. I did my best, but it wasn’t quick enough and it was a bit of a surprise that I couldn't go with the pace there at the end. Seb obviously did a massive lap for pole so he got on the front row just, which was a great effort. I’m disappointed to be on the third row. The car was pretty good yesterday on the long run - and it was good on short runs too, up until the end there – so clearly I didn't get the most out of it today. I’ll wake up and push tomorrow.”
Christian Horner, Red Bull team principal“A phenomenal qualifying. It was very, very close with a tremendous last lap from Sebastian. It’s been tight with the McLarens all weekend and he produced a remarkable last lap to get the pole by 100th of a second. This rewards the hard work that’s taken place both here and in the factory after one of the new front wings was damaged yesterday and needed to be replaced. It’s a fantastic way to pay back that effort. With Mark, he was up on his last run and was purple in his first sector, but thereafter the lap seemed to move away from him time-wise and he wasn’t able to improve in the final two sectors in a very, very tight grid. Hopefully he can make good progress from there tomorrow.”
Q3 1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m30.466s 2. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m30.475s + 0.009 3. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m30.617s + 0.151 4. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m30.804s + 0.338 5. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m30.886s + 0.420 6. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m31.156s + 0.690 7. Michael Schumacher Mercedes No time 8. Bruno Senna Renault No time 9. Vitaly Petrov Renault No time10. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari No time
Q2 11. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m32.463s + 1.99712. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m32.746s + 2.28013. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m33.079s + 2.61314. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1m33.224s + 2.75815. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m33.227s + 2.76116. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m33.427s + 2.96117. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari No time
Q1 18. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1m35.454s + 2.82819. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1m35.514s + 2.88820. Jerome D'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1m36.439s + 3.81321. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m36.507s + 3.88122. Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 1m37.846s + 5.22023. Nico Rosberg Mercedes No time24. Tonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth No time
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