After a test season where the Red Bull team resolutely refused to run on low fuel, thereby not showing their true pace, the quality of the car and driver shone through at Bahrain this morning when Sebastian Vettel came through to take pole from the two Ferraris in qualifying. This is his sixth pole position in his short career.
Massa looked very dangerous for the race tomorrow as he had two attempts in Q3 and was only fifteen hundredths off Vettel’s time; this kept him ahead of his team-mate Alonso who was 36 hundredths behind him and will start third on the grid.
Hamilton in a tricky handling McLaren held off the impressive Rosberg for fourth spot and Vettel’s Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber came in sixth. Michael Schumacher rarely looked comfortable in has first race back in the Mercedes but finished in a comfortable seventh on the grid, staying one place ahead of Button in the second McLaren. From onboard pictures of the McLaren, Button was having even more troubles controlling his car than his team-mate Hamilton; he barely scraped into Q3 at the expense of Barrichello in the Williams.
Kubica in the Renault took ninth and Adrian Sutil showed well in tenth with a good drive for Force India.
Of the new teams that took part in the Bahrain grand prix, Virgin’s Glock was one tenth faster than the Lotus of Trulli, finishing 18th and 19th. But award for bravery of the weekend must go to Karun Chandhok for stepping into the HRT for the first time and managing to get it around the testing circuit.
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