Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Qualifying times and positions
After a very tough fight, Sebastian Vettel finally got his hands on what he wanted the most. A brilliant qualifying session, a little while back, granted him the pole position for this Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Vettel has been fast all through the weekend marking the fastest lap in two of the practice sessions, while took second place in the other one. Now, at the qualifying, the young German driver cruised through the track in just 1m
39.394s. On the other hand, his teammate, Mark Webber came out of the Saturday evening track disappointed. Despite all his efforts, he was not able to finish any where above 5th place in 1m 39.925s.
The second place on the grid was taken up by the McLaren driver, Lewis Hamilton. The British driver has shown great form in the previous practice sessions as well and now he finished just behind Vettel. The third place on the grid
for the morning race is sealed by the Ferrari driver, Fernando Alonso who currently tops the drivers’ charts with his 246 points.
The surprise of the day was 4th place finish by the other McLaren driver, Jenson Button. As he is already out of the championship battle, it was not expected that he would be able to settle ahead of any of the top four
drivers but he was successful in beating Webber.
At the initial laps both Hamilton and Felipe Massa had been fortunate to avoid a poor crash. Although Hamilton’s McLaren lost balance, yet he recovered soon, while at the same time Massa was also able to book 6th place for the race day.
The old good driver, Rubens Barrichello, who is one of the oldest driver of the series, finished at 7th place just ahead of his former teammate and now a bitter enemy, Michael Schumacher. However, the seven times world
champion was followed by his teammate, Nico Rosberg as both the Mercedes GP cars parked together for 8th
and 9th places in 1m 40.516s and 1m 40.589s respectively.
The 10th grid place was taken by Vitaly Petrov as he lapped his Renault, in 1m 40.901s.
Moreover, Robert Kubica was the disappointment of the day after ending at 11th place with his time of 1m 40.780s.
Further, down the row stood the Williams, BMW Sauber, Force India and Toro Rosso drivers, while the three rookie teams, HRT, Virgin and Lotus marked the last few places.
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