Webber takes pole in Malaysia to keep Red Bull on top in a wet qualifying
Mark Webber stormed to pole on a wet Malaysian circuit, he was one of the few drivers on Inters in the dying minutes of the session and pulled an amazing time out of the bag to take pole away from Nico Rosberg.
The first session saw Ferrari and McLaren both make the same dumb mistake – they stayed in the garage for too long – it rained and they couldn’t make the times (or stay on circuit in Button’s case). Though Button made it though the session technically with his car parked at the side of the circuit he was unable to take part in the next session and so lines up 17th on the grid. Hamilton, Alonso and Massa all failed to make the cut and were eliminated from the session meaning that they line up 19th, 20th and 21st on the grid.
The second session saw the elimination of the more usual suspects but that left room for both the Williams, Force Indias, a Renault and Saubers first top ten appearance with Kobayashi.
The third session saw a changable session with both full wet and intermediate tyres making an appearance. The Red Bulls and the Mercedes seemed the fastest cars though Michael Schumacher couldn’t make his car work and could only manage eight whereas Rosberg lines up on the front row in the sister car. Nico Hulkenbeg managed an excellent fifth for Williams and with Barrichello in seventh that will be a whole lot more than they were expecting yesterday.
Grid:
1 WEBBER Red Bull
2 ROSBERG Mercedes
3 VETTEL Red Bull
4 SUTIL Force India
5 HULKENBERG Williams
6 KUBICA Renault
7 BARRICHELLO Williams
8 SCHUMACHER Mercedes
9 KOBAYASHI Sauber
10 LIUZZI Force India
11 PETROV Renault
12 DE LA ROSA Sauber
13 BUEMI Toro Rosso
14 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso
15 KOVALAINEN Lotus
16 GLOCK Virgin
17 BUTTON McLaren
18 TRULLI Lotus
19 ALONSO Ferrari
20 HAMILTON McLaren
21 MASSA Ferrari
22 CHANDHOK HRT
23 SENNA HRT
24 DI GRASSI Virgin
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