Formual 1
SEBASTIAN VETTEL CONTINUES HIS DOMINATION WITH POLE FOR THE 2013 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX-
Reigning Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel took the pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, in a race race-day qualifying session Sunday.
Vettel qualified in a time of 1 minute, 27.407 seconds around the Albert Park circuit, and was joined in an all-Red Bull front row by Mark Webber, who was four-tenths of a second back.
Lewis Hamilton qualified third in his first race for Mercedes, ahead of the Ferrari pair of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso.
The second and third sessions of qualifying were postponed to Sunday after a series of rain delays and the onset of darkness prevented them being held Saturday.
SEBASTIAN VETTEL, Position: POLE POSITION! (3rd Practice – P12, 1:29.808)
“Obviously I was very happy with the result, but with the adjusted schedule we can’t be too euphoric right now – in a few hours the race is coming up, so it’s head down again to get on with that. Obviously it’s a very good result for myself and the team and with Mark in second we have a front row – it’s a surprise after not knowing where we were in winter testing.”
“I think with such intense conditions like yesterday and today, it’s always easy to make a meal of it, but we didn’t. It was slippery yesterday and we came back again today for a very short explosive session; it’s all over in a flash. We needed to get things right, I would have liked two laps but we finished up the grid at the right end. The weather can change very quickly here, so it’s always hard to make a call.”