Singapore GP: Hamilton on pole, Vettel 2nd

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Singapore GP: Hamilton on pole, Vettel 2nd

	Formula 1
	Saturday, September 26, 2009

Lewis Hamilton on his way to pole under the lights in Singapore

Lewis Hamilton won his third pole position of the season in Singapore Saturday night, after a crash by Rubens Barrichello brought the qualifying session to an early end with a red flag.

Sebastian Vettel will join Hamilton on the front row while his Brawn title rivals struggled.

Mark Webber completes the second row for Red Bull, with Renault's Fernando Alonso and Toyota's Timo Glock moving up to row three once Barrichello's penalty is applied.

Jenson Button had no explanation after yet another disappointing twist put a dent in his world championship challenge.

The Brawn driver and championship leader, sweating in the Singapore heat, missed the top ten cut in qualifying for Sunday's grand prix, and afterwards told British television: "It's disappointing. That's all there is to say, really."

His team boss Ross Brawn called the result "disastrous".

However, the sting was taken out of his performance by the misfortunes of his teammate and most likely championship challenger, Rubens Barrichello.

The Brazilian veteran started the night session knowing that he would need to take a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change, and then crashed during the Q3 segment whilst fifth quickest.

With the penalty, he will line up tenth in a repaired car on Sunday.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1.	Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:46.977	1:46.657	1:47.891
2.	Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:47.541	1:46.362	1:48.204
3.	Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	1:47.390	1:46.197	1:48.348
4.	Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:47.646	1:46.328	1:48.722
5.	Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	1:47.397	1:46.787	1:48.828
6.	Alonso	Renault	1:47.757	1:46.767	1:49.054
7.	Glock	Toyota	1:47.770	1:46.707	1:49.180
8.	Heidfeld	BMW-Sauber	1:47.347	1:46.832	1:49.307
9.	Kubica	BMW-Sauber	1:47.615	1:46.813	1:49.514
10.	Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	1:47.542	1:46.842	1:49.778
11.	Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1:47.637	1:47.013	-
12.	Button	Brawn-Mercedes	1:47.180	1:47.141	-
13.	Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:47.293	1:47.177	-
14.	Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:47.677	1:47.369	-
15.	Trulli	Toyota	1:47.690	1:47.413	-
16.	Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:48.231	-	-
17.	Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:48.340	-	-
18.	Fisichella	Ferrari	1:48.350	-	-
19.	Grosjean	Renault	1:48.544	-	-
20.	Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:48.792	-	-

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