Alonso to start from pole for tomorrow’s Italian GP!

Fernando Alonso has pleased the ‘tifosi’ and secured pole position for tomorrow’s Italian GP at the legendary Monza race track. The double World Champion became the quickest driver through out the session and will start the race ahead of McLaren’s Jenson Button and teammate in the other scarlet Ferrari, Felipe Massa. Red Bull failed to break into the top three as Mark Webber only managed fourth place. The Australian snatched that position from championship leader Lewis Hamilton from McLaren in the dying seconds of Q3.

Sixth place went to Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel while Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg, Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg, Renault’s Robert Kubica and Rubens Barrichello in the other WIlliams car will start the race from seventh, eight, ninth and tenth places respectively. Seven times World Champion Michael Schumacher only managed 12th for Mercedes. Yet again, the German failed to position himself ahead of his teammate and failed to get into Q3.

Lotus Racing did well today as both drivers achieved 18th and 19th places. Local driver Jarno Trulli is ahead of Hekki Kovalainen while Force India’s Vitantonio Liuzzi is 20th. He will start the race ahead of both the Virgin and Hispania drivers. Today was Ferrari’s first pole in Monza since 2004 with Rubens Barrichello.

Alonso’s pole which could also lead to a race win brings him back into the contention for the Driver’s title. He is exactly 41 points behind leader Hamilton. Its definitely cooking up to be an exciting race tomorrow as the championship is still open. Both Ferrari and McLaren will definitely have a good fight while one should not discount the Red Bulls too!

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Harvinder Sidhu

Harvinder Singh Sidhu thinks there's nothing better than Formula 1, not even sliced bread. Having written about cars since 2006, he plunged head first into the industry out of a passion for all things four-wheeled and everything in between. The F1 enthusiast has been following the sport since 1999 and has been keeping up with it since. In between races he keeps himself busy as the host of the Driven motoring show and as our version of the Joker.

 

Comments

  • seriusSAM on Sep 11, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Liuzzi drive for Force India dude

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  • scanzew on Sep 11, 2010 at 11:19 pm

    Weird looks for hamilton’s mclaren without fduct lol

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    • trav_da_man on Sep 12, 2010 at 9:10 pm

      serious? i felt F1 cars looks weird with F duct! Moreover fugly!!!!

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  • lewis on Sep 12, 2010 at 1:03 am

    the race is gonna b a cracker… tune in evey1…

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  • campro on Sep 12, 2010 at 9:01 am

    Ferrari must win 1-2 this round….and 3rd & 4th would b nicer with button or webber….hope hamilton is below top 5…then title fighting will be more interesting in next round…

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  • moots on Sep 12, 2010 at 11:20 am

    What time is the race in Malaysian time?

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  • sham_azlan on Sep 12, 2010 at 2:19 pm

    ALONSO , you are the man

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  • Virosh on Sep 12, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    why won’t you return kimi.

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