Australia GP - Qualifying Result - Vettel grab the pole 360

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Saturday Qualifying, Qantas Australian Grand Prix, Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne, Australia

World Champion Sebastian Vettel grab the pole on the season opener Australian GP to show his dominance over the other drivers. He out-qualified all other drivers on track by setting 1min 23.529 as the fastest time with no other man can breach 1min 23 zone in qualifying. Second man Lewis Hamilton was almost 8tenth of a second slower than Vettel.

Mclaren continues its good performance with recent updates on car. Lewis qualified 2nd while Jenson was 4th. Mark Webber was thirdd fastest with Ferrari strongman Fernando Alonso was 6th fastest followed by Vitaly Petrov in Renault. Vitaly showed an exceptional performance during qualifying proving that he can lead the team in absence of Robert Kubica.

Kamui Kobayashi and Sebastien Buemi made a mark in their respective teams to out qualify Michael Schumacher to Q2 only with 11th position on grid.

Force India Adrian Sutil initially put a better performance in Q1 while could not get much out of Q2 and qualified only 16th while teammate and rookie driver Paul Di Resta with consistent performance in Q1 and Q2 qualified at 14th. There were far greater expectations from Force India to their performance. In comparison Sauber and Toro Rosso make their mark in 2011 season.

In the Q2, Rubens Barrichello runs wide on to the gravel trap which made him to qualify only 17th on the grid.

Q1, seen Nick Heidfeld exit as much of a surprise while all three new teams were out qualified in Q1. HRT was not able to put a time to beat 107percent Rule. This means they are ruled out of Tomorrow Race.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 25.296sec	1min 24.090sec	1min 23.529sec	16
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 25.384sec	1min 24.595sec	1min 24.307sec	19
3	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 25.900sec	1min 24.658sec	1min 24.395sec	15
4	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 25.886sec	1min 24.957sec	1min 24.779sec	18
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 25.707sec	1min 25.242sec	1min 24.974sec	19
6	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 25.543sec	1min 25.582sec	1min 25.247sec	18
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 25.856sec	1min 25.606sec	1min 25.421sec	17
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 26.031sec	1min 26.611sec	1min 25.599sec	18
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 25.717sec	1min 25.405sec	1min 25.626sec	17
10	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 26.232sec	1min 25.882sec	1min 27.066sec	15
11	Michael Schmacher	Mercedes GP	1min 25.962sec	1min 25.971sec		13
12	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 26.620sec	1min 26.103sec		11
13	Sergio Perez	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 25.812sec	1min 26.108sec		9
14	Paul Di Resta	Force India - Mercedes	1min 27.222sec	1min 26.739sec		16
15	Pastor Maldonado	Williams - Cosworth	1min 26.298sec	1min 26.768sec		17
16	Adrian Sutil	Force India - Mercedes	1min 26.245sec	1min 31.407sec		15
17	Rubens Barrichello	Williams - Cosworth	1min 26.270sec	No-Time		12
18	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1min 27.239sec			10
19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus - Renault	1min 29.254sec			10
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus - Renault	1min 29.342sec			12
21	Timo Glock	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 29.858sec			10
22	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin - Cosworth	1min 30.822sec			8
NQ	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 32.978sec			11
NQ	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	1min 34.293sec			11

According to 107percent Rule, both drivers of HRT were not qualified for tomorrow race.
The time to beat was 1min 31.266sec. So, only after the special permission of Stewart they may be able to race tomorrow. Otherwise only 22 drivers will take part in the Australian GP with World Champion Sebastian Vettel starting on pole.