Sebastian Vettel pipped Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa to take his sixth pole from seven races today in Canada
Sebastian Vettel 1st“I’m happy with that. We’ve made up some ground from last year when we committed to a different strategy and sacrificed qualifying, but this year I feel comfortable. I had a rough start yesterday morning, but thankfully the guys could fix the car and I had more practice in the afternoon, which is important here. It’s a tricky track to understand, with the kerbs and the chicanes, coming from high speeds with hard braking, but we had a smooth qualifying session today and two very good runs. All in all, I’m very happy. It’s obviously a big step we’ve made today, but the big task comes tomorrow. The conditions are likely to change and I’m sure we’ll see some rain – the question is when and how much. We’ll see, but P1 is the best position to start from.”
Mark Webber 4th“It was a good afternoon and I was happy with how we recovered. I couldn’t have got much more out of the car for qualifying today; I didn’t have KERS, which affected my performance. The guys did everything they could to get it ready after the problem we had this morning and we were confident that it was fixed, but on the formation lap it lapsed again. We tried to recover it for Q3, but it wasn’t possible. A front row would have been nice to have here, but fourth is towards the front and the second row is good considering our day. It’s a long Grand Prix tomorrow and there’s likely to be a bit of weather coming in, so it should be an interesting race.”
Christian Horner, Red Bull team principal“It’s fantastic to get our first pole position in Montreal. It was a great performance by Sebastian again today, completing two laps in Q3 that were good enough for pole. The Ferrari’s have been very quick here and we expect them and McLaren to be a big challenge tomorrow. Mark made a good recovery without the benefit of KERS, which we know is worth a couple of tenths here. It was a great performance from him and he will start from the second row at a track where you can overtake.”
Pos Driver Team Time
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m13.014s 2. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m13.199s 3. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m13.217s 4. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m13.429s 5. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m13.565s 6. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m13.814s 7. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m13.838s 8. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m13.864s 9. Nick Heidfeld Renault 1m14.062s 10. Vitaly Petrov Renault 1m14.085s
11. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m14.752s 12. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1m15.043s 13. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m15.285s 14. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m15.287s 15. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m15.334s 16. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m15.361s 17. Pedro de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1m15.587s
18. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m16.294s 19. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1m16.745s 20. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1m16.786s 21. Tonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 1m18.424s 22. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m18.537s 23. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m18.574s 24. Jerome D'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1m19.414s
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