World champion Sebastian Vettel bounced back from his crash in practice to claim pole in an all Red Bull front row for today’s Turkish Grand Prix.
His fourth successive pole from the opening four races of the season was the first time this feat had been achieved since Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen in 1999. The 23-year-old clocked an outstanding lap time of one minute and 25.049 seconds and was four-tenths of a second ahead of teammate Mark Webber. Nico Rosberg was third fastest for the improved Mercedes team, just pipping McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, the 2008 champion and winner of the last Grand Prix, while two-time champion Fernando Alonso of Ferrari was fifth fastest.
Meanwhile, the world champion was quick to apologise to - and then praise - his team’s mechanics for the work they did in rebuilding his machine overnight.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 8th, 2011.
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