Australian Mark Webber has done it again with his third consecutive pole position this time for the Turkish Grand Prix. Through out the session it was pretty much a battle between both the McLaren and both the Red Bull drivers for pole. Webber will start tomorrow’s race ahead of 2008 Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton in this Mercedes powered McLaren. Third place went to Sebastian Vettel in the other Red Bull.
Reigning World Champion Jenson Button settled for fourth place for McLaren ahead of Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher who out qualified his team mate. He still maintained his fifth place after putting his car on the gravel trap during his final stint. His team mate Nico Rosberg will start behind him in sixth place. Renault’s Robert Kubica managed seventh place in front of Felipe Massa in his scarlet Ferrari.
Both the Renaults made it into the top ten as Vitaly Petrov secured ninth place. The final top ten position went to Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi. You might be wondering what happened to the other Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso. Unfortunately for the double World Champion he made a mistake in his second last attempt during Q2 and that pretty much ruined his qualifying session, although he later said that the mistake didn’t cost him an entry into Q3. He only managed 12th place and will start the race behind Adrian Sutil of Force India and ahead of Pedro de la Rosa of Sauber.
Further down the grid both the Lotus drivers will have to make do with 19th and 20th positions which comes as no surprise, this time the duo is led by Jarno Trulli. Both Lotus drivers were about four seconds slower than the front runners. 0.2 seconds down is Timo Glock for Virgin ahead of Hispania’s Bruno Senna. Lucas di Grassi and Karun Chandhok made up the final two positions of the grid.
This is Webber’s fourth pole position of the season and he has managed to turn two of his recent pole positions into race wins. Red Bull clearly has the pace but will the championship leader score his third consecutive win tomorrow? Only time will tell. A dry affair is expected.
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haiyo so fast!!
great drivee by michael…..Alonso silly mistake
USELESS AND SHAMELESS lotus f1…
couldn’t agree more, Lotus F1 is useless and it is a waste of money, better use the money to subsidize our petrol.
I have always believed in Marks ability, and followed his career from the beginning at Minardi. I just loved his attitude after he won his first Grand Prix saying how much pride he had in representing his country. He has come back from adversity and shown the world just how good he is in a competitive car. To me it is a real thrill to have an Aussie to cheer on and do our great sporting country proud!
I totally agree. He has been known for his consistently competitive drive, however had been hampered by dodgy reliability issues and tough luck throughout his career. I’m happy that everything is coming through and he’s shining. Hope this keeps up. Mark Webber for 2010 F1 Champion! :)
great schuey is getting stronger!
yeah..slowly he’s gthering his pace..nw we can see his improvement..n i think he can clocked a better timing if he didnt crash..but he’s cool, eventgh he crashed in Q3, he’s still in front of rosberg, 5th and the best part is, he joked about his crashed..fun guy..haha
He’s not as pressured as when he was in Ferrari. Expectations are different.
Amazing that Mark is where he is now. To think of it, he and Alex were together in the same team, Minardi.
To be fair, Mark also had better financial backing. Anyway I think he’s a real strong guy, mentally, having had to endure years in Minardi, Jaguar, Williams when they weren’t exactly competitive.