Mark Webber finally put an end to pole setting streak of Sebastian Vettel

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Qualifying, Spanish Grand Prix, Circuit De Catalunya, Barcelona
Mark Webber became the second driver to set the pole this season by outqualifying his teammate World Champion Sebastian Vettel with just 2tenth of a second. Vettel was setting the pole continuously from the last 5 races (including one from Abu Dhabi Race, 2010). Vettel sole run in Q3 also without KERS put him well ahead of Lewis Hamilton depicting the pace of Red Bull and precision of Vettel. On the other hand, Webber had the KERS power to boost him on the top of the timesheets. Red Bull share the first grid for the tomorrow race.

The second grid is shared by the former teammates rival Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. Alonso was just 3thousandth of a second slower to that of Hamilton. The Rear wing upgrades that Ferrari bought were banned by FIA on Friday night and Ferrari were running on their Turkish GP specification. But then also, Alonso made his mark to separates the two Mclarens.

Petrov in the sole Renault of the day qualified 6th ahead of Nico Rosberg in his Mercedes. Nick Heidfeld in the other Renault was not able to take part in the qualifying due to the heavy damage the car sustained after the intensive fire during the Practice Session 3rd in the morning.

Felipe Massa put the second Ferrari on the 4th grid with Nico.

Rookie Pastor Maldonado drove exceptionally well. Without any glitches, he put his car in Q3 and was 9th fastest.

Michael Schumacher qualified 10th with a clever strategy to save tyres and did not bother to post a time in the Q3. Michael posted the fastest lap in the Q1. It seems that, Michael has a set of spare option tyre with him.

Sebastian Buemi failed to enter Q3 and will start at 11th position. Sergio Perez outqualified his teammate Kamui Kobayashi and will be sharing 6th grid with Buemi. Jaime Alguersuari in his second Toro Rosso was 13th fastest while Kamui Kobayashi was only 14th fastest.

Heikki Kovalainen put the Lotus ahead of Force India's car in Q2 with an exceptional 1min 25sec run and will be starting at strong 15th position tomorrow.

Force India fail to improve with their new upgrades and will be starting at 16th and 17th. However they managed to save the tyres by not using their option tyres in Q2. This could act as a life savor for them.

Jarno Trulli will start in 18th while the shock of the day came by Rubens Barrichello who qualified only 19th and failed to make it to Q2 also.

Timo Glock put his Virgin ahead of HRT's to outqualify them again. But this time, both the HRT's were able to qualify ahead of the second Virgin of Ambrosio. Indian Driver Narain Karthikeyan qualified 22nd just 1tenth of a second slower than his teammate.

All the drivers make it to the 107% qualifying rule. Stewards will most probably allow Nick Heidfeld Renault to take part in the race tomorrow who had not posted time for the Qualifying due to his car being repaired from heavy damage due to intense fire during morning FP3.

From the last ten years, it was pole setter who won the race on Circuit De Catalunya, can Mark Webber able to increase the tally to 11 or it will be someone who will broke this record.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull - Renault	1min 23.619sec	1min 21.773sec	1min 20.981sec	12
2	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull - Renault	1min 24.142sec	1min 21.540sec	1min 21.181sec	13
3	Lewis Hamilton	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 24.370sec	1min 22.148sec	1min 21.961sec	12
4	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1min 23.485sec	1min 22.813sec	1min 21.964sec	15
5	Jenson Button	Mclaren - Mercedes	1min 24.428sec	1min 22.050sec	1min 21.996sec	12
6	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1min 23.069sec	1min 22.948sec	1min 22.471sec	14
7	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1min 23.507sec	1min 22.569sec	1min 22.599sec	14
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1min 23.506sec	1min 23.026sec	1min 22.888sec	15
9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams -Cosworth	1min 23.406sec	1min 22.854sec	1min 22.952sec	14
10	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1min 22.960sec	1min 22.671sec	No Time	12
11	Sebastien Buemi	STR - Ferrari	1min 23.962sec	1min 23.231sec		6
12	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1min 24.209sec	1min 23.367sec		9
13	Jaime Alguersuari	STR - Ferrari	1min 24.049sec	1min 23.694sec		9
14	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber - Ferrari	1min 23.656sec	1min 23.702sec		8
15	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1min 25.874sec	1min 25.403sec		6
16	Paul Di Resta	Force India -Mercedes	1min 24.332sec	1min 26.126sec		13
17	Adrian Sutil	Force India -Mercedes	1min 24.648sec	1min 26.571sec		13
18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1min 26.521sec			4
19	Rubens Barrichello	Williams -Cosworth	1min 26.910sec			5
20	Timo Glock	Virgin -Cosworth	1min 27.315sec			8
21	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT - Cosworth	1min 27.809sec			9
22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT - Cosworth	1min 27.908sec			9
23	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Virgin -Cosworth	1min 28.556sec			5
24	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	No Time			0

107percent Qualifying Rule Time: 1min 28:767sec.