Vettel edges Alonso for German Pole

Vettel edges Alonso for German Pole

Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the German grand prix From Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, teammate Mark Webber will start from fourth on the grid.

Q1

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa sets the fastest lap in Q1 whlie Force India’s Luizzi crashed at the final corner that put him out and will start from 22nd on the grid.

Timo Glock looked fast and on course to beat the Lotus but they both were faster at the end of the session

Q2

In Q2 the Ferrari’s looked very fast with Fernando Alonso setting a lap of 1:14.6 and then Massa set a lap of 1:14.4 at the start of the session, both Mercedes were in the out zone but they both set a 1:15 dead that put them 9th and 10th with Rosberg and Shumacher, a late lap from Nico Hulkenberg put Shumacher out of Q3.

Q3

With Ferrari and Red Bull looking set for pole Alonso was the first driver to get bellow 1:14 with 1:13.9, Vettel then came very close to him within a tenth in his first attempt Hamilton was third, in the second attempt Vettel beat Alonso with a lap of 1:13.791 and took pole Alonso did 1:13.793 only two tenth of a thousand separated them.

Massa took third ahead of Webber to show Ferrari’s improvement with the McLaren’s of Button and Hamilton fifth and sixth ahead of Renault’s Robert Kubica.

FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND 2010

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:15.152	1:14.249	1:13.791
2	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:14.808	1:14.081	1:13.793
3	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:15.216	1:14.478	1:14.290
4	6	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:15.334	1:14.340	1:14.347
5	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:15.823	1:14.716	1:14.427
6	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:15.505	1:14.488	1:14.566
7	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	1:15.736	1:14.835	1:15.079
8	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:16.398	1:14.698	1:15.109
9	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1:16.178	1:15.018	1:15.179
10	10	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:16.387	1:14.943	1:15.339
11	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1:16.084	1:15.026
12	23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	1:15.951	1:15.084
13	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:16.521	1:15.307
14	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:16.220	1:15.467
15	22	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	1:16.450	1:15.550
16	17	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	1:16.664	1:15.588
17	16	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:16.029	1:15.974
18	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1:17.583
19	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1:18.300
20	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:18.343
21	21	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1:18.592
22	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:18.952
23	20	Sakon Yamamoto	HRT-Cosworth	1:19.844
24	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth