Korean Grand Prix Qualifying Review

A very exciting qualifying at the Korean international circuit, once again it was business as usual for the two red bull drivers. Going into qualifying there could of been up to seven drivers but in the end it was the usual driver setting the pace. Sebastian Vettel took pole position in the dying seconds of Q3 from title rivals Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso.

Q1

The pace was set by Mclaren driver Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel separated by a few hundredths of a second. At the bottom end of the grid, the usual suspects were there. Jarno Trulli was best of the new teams ahead of Virgins' Timo Glock and teammate Heikki Kovalainen. There was one more place available to drop out of Q1 it was between the two Toro Rosso drivers and Force India driver Tonio Luizzi, On Luizzi's final run it looked like Buemi was out in Q1 but in the end a poor last sector meant that Buemi was safe with Luizzi falling out of Q1, a disappointing result for the under pressure Italian.

18th	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.955
19th	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1:40.521
20th	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:40.748
21th	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1:41.768
22th	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1:42.325
23th	Sakon Yamamoto	HRT-Cosworth	1:42.444
24th	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1:43.283

Q2

The second qualifying session saw the Red Bulls and Ferrari's setting the pace, The two Red bulls were quick on the prime tyre with Ferrari driver Felipe Massa setting some quick lap times on the option tyre which is meant to be up to 0.7 seconds quicker than the prime. Sauber drivers decided to do one run but they didn't get into Q3. Jaime Alguersuari once again out-qualified teammate Sebastien Buemi for 16th and Nico Hulkenburg qualified 11th just a fraction away from making it in to Q3.

11th	Nico Hülkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:37.620
12th	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:37.643
13th	Nick Heidfeld	Sauber-Ferrari	1:37.715
14th	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:37.783
15th	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:37.799
16th	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:37.853
17th	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:38.594

Q3

The session started with Mark Webber going to the track first and set a poor lap, behind him Fernando Alonso set a very quick lap which put him 1st ahead of the other drivers. On his second run he improved but it wasn't enough. The Red Bulls were flying, Mark Webber took second place and Sebastian Vettel- once again took pole position.

A great performance by Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg with P5 and teammate Michael Schumacher P9. The other Ferrari didn't qualify as well as it should had, P6 for Felipe Massa and Rubens Barrichello rounding up the top 10

1st	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:35.585
2nd	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:35.659
3rd	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:35.766
4th	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:36.062
5th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:36.535
6th	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:36.571
7th	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:36.731
8th	Robert Kubica	Renault	1:36.824
9th	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:36.950
10th	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:36.998

A fantastic qualifying and I'm sure the race will be even better!