Sebastian Vettel

It looks like another long year for Red Bull's rivals.  Defending F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel dominated qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix.

Comfortably quickest in Q1 and Q2, then 0.8 seconds ahead of the rest of the field after the first Q3 runs were complete, Vettel demoralized the opposition. His lap of 1m23.529s secured the 16th pole of Vettel's Formula 1 career and was 8/10ths up on everyone else.

Lewis Hamilton denied Red Bull a front row sweep by getting his McLaren up to second on the final moments, pushing Mark Webber back to third.

Jenson Button completed the top four in the second McLaren, ahead of Fernando Alonso in his Ferrari.

Russian Vitaly Petrov, who does not get enough credit for just how good he is, took a superb sixth for Renault, while Nico Rosberg was seventh and his Mercedes teammate Michael Schumacher 11th.

Results

POS	DRIVER	NATIONALITY	ENTRANT	TIME
1.	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	Red Bull-Renault	1:23.529
2.	Lewis Hamilton	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.307
3.	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	1:24.395
4.	Jenson Button	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.779
5.	Fernando Alonso	Spain	Ferrari	1:24.974
6.	Vitaly Petrov	Russia	Renault	1:25.247
7.	Nico Rosberg	Germany	Mercedes GP	1:25.421
8.	Felipe Massa	Brazil	Ferrari	1:25.599
9.	Kamui Kobayashi	Japan	Sauber-Ferrari	1:25.626
10.	Sebastien Buemi	Switzerland	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:27.066
.	Q2	.	.	.
11.	Michael Schumacher	Germany	Mercedes GP	1:25.971
12.	Jaime Alguersuari	Spain	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:26.103
13.	Sergio Perez	Mexico	Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.108
14.	Paul di Resta	Britain	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.739
15.	Pastor Maldonado	Venezuela	Williams-Cosworth	1:26.768
16.	Adrian Sutil	Germany	Force India-Mercedes	1:31.407
17.	Rubens Barrichello	Brazil	Williams-Cosworth	No Time
.	Q1	.	.	.
18.	Nick Heidfeld	Germany	Renault	1:27.239
19.	Heikki Kovalainen	Finland	Lotus-Renault	1:29.254
20.	Jarno Trulli	Italy	Lotus-Renault	1:29.342
21.	Timo Glock	Germany	Virgin-Cosworth	1:29.858
22.	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Belgium	Virgin-Cosworth	1:30.822
23.	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Italy	HRT-Cosworth	1:32.978
24.	Narain Karthikeyan	India	HRT-Cosworth	1:34.293

107% time: 1m31.266s