Awaiting the stewards decision this may not be the final grid.
Alonso, and several other drivers were unable to drive timed hot laps because of a late yellow flag period.
Vettel takes pole in disrupted session
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Saturday, 03 October 2009 07:42
Sebastian Vettel kept his composure through a fragmented qualifying session at Suzuka to claim his fourth pole position of the season for Red Bull Racing and keep at least a flicker of his world title hopes alive.
Jarno Trulli came within 0.06s of delivering a home pole position for Toyota and will start alongside Vettel on the front row.
Lewis Hamilton was third for McLaren, while his friend Adrian Sutil took an outstanding fourth on the grid for Force India.
Jenson Button did not get the platform he was hoping for a potentially championship-clinching race, qualifying two places behind his Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello in seventh.
The session was punctuated by no fewer than three red flags and several other incidents.
The most serious involved Timo Glock, who crashed his Toyota head-first into the tyre barrier in the final corner and has been taken to a local hospital with a left leg wound but reportedly no other major injuries.
Full report to follow…
Japanese GP starting grid
1. VETTEL Red Bull
2. TRULLI Toyota
3. HAMILTON McLaren
4. SUTIL Force India
5. BARRICHELLO Brawn
6. HEIDFELD BMW
7. BUTTON Brawn
8. RAIKKONEN Ferrari
9. KOVALAINEN McLaren
10. BUEMI Toro Rosso
11. ROSBERG Williams
12. ALONSO Renault
13. KUBICA BMW
14. GLOCK Toyota
15. ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso
16. FISICHELLA Ferrari
17. NAKAJIMA Williams
18. GROSJEAN Renault
19. LIUZZI Force India
20. WEBBER Red Bull
Alonso, and several other drivers were unable to drive timed hot laps because of a late yellow flag period.
Vettel takes pole in disrupted session
http://www.itv-f1.com/home.aspx
Saturday, 03 October 2009 07:42
Sebastian Vettel kept his composure through a fragmented qualifying session at Suzuka to claim his fourth pole position of the season for Red Bull Racing and keep at least a flicker of his world title hopes alive.
Jarno Trulli came within 0.06s of delivering a home pole position for Toyota and will start alongside Vettel on the front row.
Lewis Hamilton was third for McLaren, while his friend Adrian Sutil took an outstanding fourth on the grid for Force India.
Jenson Button did not get the platform he was hoping for a potentially championship-clinching race, qualifying two places behind his Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello in seventh.
The session was punctuated by no fewer than three red flags and several other incidents.
The most serious involved Timo Glock, who crashed his Toyota head-first into the tyre barrier in the final corner and has been taken to a local hospital with a left leg wound but reportedly no other major injuries.
Full report to follow…
Japanese GP starting grid
1. VETTEL Red Bull
2. TRULLI Toyota
3. HAMILTON McLaren
4. SUTIL Force India
5. BARRICHELLO Brawn
6. HEIDFELD BMW
7. BUTTON Brawn
8. RAIKKONEN Ferrari
9. KOVALAINEN McLaren
10. BUEMI Toro Rosso
11. ROSBERG Williams
12. ALONSO Renault
13. KUBICA BMW
14. GLOCK Toyota
15. ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso
16. FISICHELLA Ferrari
17. NAKAJIMA Williams
18. GROSJEAN Renault
19. LIUZZI Force India
20. WEBBER Red Bull