Mark Webber on his way to pole position

While the east coast of the USA bakes in record 100-degree weather, it was a cold 54-degrees at the Nurburgring in Germany Saturday.  Mark Webber seems to like the fast circuits and he showed it again today taking his second consecutive pole position by holding off Lewis Hamilton in German Grand Prix qualifying at the Nurburgring.

World championship leader Sebastian Vettel will start only third for his home race - the first time all year he has been off the front row. Silverstone winner Fernando Alonso Ferrari had to settle for fourth in his Ferrari but he is not far off pole and the Ferrari certainly appears ready to challenge for a 2nd straight win.

Webber, who won the race here two years ago, was on top throughout Q3, producing a 1m30.251s on his first run and then improving to 1m30.079s for pole.

Nico Rosberg only did one attempt in Q3 to put his Mercedes in sixth, ahead of Jenson Button, who was a second behind McLaren teammate Hamilton.

Adrian Sutil reached Q3 for his home race and gave Force India eighth place, ahead of Renault's Vitaly Petrov and national hero Michael Schumacher in the second Mercedes.

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Time	Behind
1.	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1m30.079s	+0.000s
2.	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1m30.134s	+0.055
3.	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1m30.216s	+0.137
4.	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m30.442s	+0.363
5.	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m30.910s	+0.831
6.	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m31.263s	+1.184
7.	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1m31.288s	+1.209
8.	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1m32.010s	+1.931
9.	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1m32.187s	+2.108
10.	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m32.482s	+2.403
Q2	cut-off	.	1m33.180s	Gap
11.	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1m32.215s	+1.217
12.	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1m32.560s	+1.562
13.	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1m32.635s	+1.637
14.	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1m33.043s	+2.045
15.	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	1m33.176s	+2.178
16.	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m33.546s	+2.548
17.	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1m33.698s	+2.700
Q1	Cut-off	.	1m33.664s	Gap
18.	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1m33.786s	+1.960
19.	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1m35.599s	+3.773
20.	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1m36.400s	+4.574
21.	Karun Chandhok	Lotus-Renault	1m36.422s	+4.596
22.	Jerome D'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1m36.641s	+4.815
23.	Tonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1m37.011s	+5.185
24.	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT-Cosworth	1m37.036s	+5.210