Sebastian Vettel

The fastest driver in F1 continues to show his heels to the rest of the F1 field.  Sebastian Vettel has now won seven poles from eight grands prix, as the world champion took his 22nd Formula 1 career pole in Valencia in qualifying for the European GP.

It's an all-Red Bull front row with teammate Mark Webber 2nd, and Lewis Hamilton rounded out the top three for McLaren.  The of the Ferraris of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa rounded out the top-5.

Canadian GP winner Jenson Button McLaren will start sixth for McLaren.

Before the weekend started Michael Schumacher said their cars were only good enough for a 4th row starting position.  He was spot on.  The Mercedes chose to only make one Q3 run and fill row four, with Nico Rosberg only 0.009 seconds ahead of teammate Michael Schumacher.

"We had a good qualifying session, generally a good build-up throughout the weekend, picking up steadily some pace and I felt more and more comfortable in the car, that was most important<" said Vettel

"It was nice today to sit here and have the front row for us, it is a good start for tomorrow, but it is a long race so we have to go from there."

Results

POS	DRIVER	NATIONALITY	ENTRANT	TIME
1.	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	Red Bull-Renault	1:36.975
2.	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	1:37.163
3.	Lewis Hamilton	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.380
4.	Fernando Alonso	Spain	Ferrari	1:37.454
5.	Felipe Massa	Brazil	Ferrari	1:37.535
6.	Jenson Button	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.645
7.	Nico Rosberg	Germany	Mercedes GP	1:38.231
8.	Michael Schumacher	Germany	Mercedes GP	1:38.240
9.	Nick Heidfeld	Germany	Renault	No Time
10.	Adrian Sutil	Germany	Force India-Mercedes	No Time
Q2	.	.	.	.
11.	Vitaly Petrov	Russia	Renault	1:39.068
12.	Paul di Resta	Britain	Force India-Mercedes	1:39.422
13.	Rubens Barrichello	Brazil	Williams-Cosworth	1:39.489
14.	Kamui Kobayashi	Japan	Sauber-Ferrari	1:39.525
15.	Pastor Maldonado	Venezuela	Williams-Cosworth	1:39.645
16.	Sergio Perez	Mexico	Sauber-Ferrari	1:39.657
17.	Sebastien Buemi	Switzerland	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:39.711
18.	Jaime Alguersuari	Spain	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:40.232
19.	Heikki Kovalainen	Finland	Lotus-Renault	1:41.664
Q3	.	.	.	.
20.	Jarno Trulli	Italy	Lotus-Renault	1:42.234
21.	Timo Glock	Germany	Virgin-Cosworth	1:42.553
22.	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Italy	HRT-Cosworth	1:43.584
23.	Jerome d'Ambrosio	Belgium	Virgin-Cosworth	1:43.735
24.	Narain Karthikeyan	India	HRT-Cosworth	1:44.363