F1: 2010 Monaco Grand Prix - Qualifying Results

With the weekend’s fastest man so far (Alonso) out of the running for pole position, Mark Webber steps up to claim top spot and Red Bull continues it’s flawless pursuit of pole perfection. After Alonoso pitched his car into the unforgiving wall and put himself on the sidelines and out of the running in the last practice session, the rest of the field battled for pole. Ferrari’s Massa found himself 4th just behind Vettel. Another great performance from Kubica to put his Renault on the front line just behind Webber. Perhaps the biggest surprise was McLaren’s Button struggling to qualify 9th. The Mercedes of Rosberg and Schumacher are the meat in a McLaren sandwhich behind Lewis (5th). Rounding out the top 10 are Rubens and Liuzzi.


2010 Monaco Grand Prix - Qualifying Results

	Driver	Team	Time (min)
1	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:13.826 min (S3) 1:14.462 min (S2) 1:15.035 min (S1)
2	Robert Kubica	Renault	1:14.120 min (S3) 1:14.549 min (S2) 1:15.045 min (S1)
3	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:14.227 min (S3) 1:14.568 min (S2) 1:15.110 min (S1)
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:14.283 min (S3) 1:14.405 min (S2) 1:14.757 min (S1)
5	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1:14.432 min (S3) 1:14.527 min (S2) 1:15.676 min (S1)
6	Nico Rosberg	MERCEDES GP PETRONAS	1:14.544 min (S3) 1:14.375 min (S2) 1:15.188 min (S1)
7	Michael Schumacher	MERCEDES GP PETRONAS	1:14.590 min (S3) 1:14.691 min (S2) 1:15.649 min (S1)
8	Jenson Button	McLaren	1:14.637 min (S3) 1:15.150 min (S2) 1:15.623 min (S1)
9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams	1:14.901 min (S3) 1:15.083 min (S2) 1:15.590 min (S1)
10	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India	1:15.170 min (S3) 1:15.061 min (S2) 1:15.397 min (S1)
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams	1:15.317 min (S2) 1:16.030 min (S1)
12	Adrian Sutil	Force India	1:15.318 min (S2) 1:15.445 min (S1)
13	Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso	1:15.413 min (S2) 1:15.961 min (S1)
14	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:15.576 min (S2) 1:15.482 min (S1)
15	Pedro de la Rosa	Sauber	1:15.692 min (S2) 1:15.908 min (S1)
16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1:15.992 min (S2) 1:16.175 min (S1)
17	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso	1:16.176 min (S2) 1:16.021 min (S1)
18	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus	1:17.094 min (S1)
19	Jarno Trulli	Lotus	1:17.134 min (S1)
20	Timo Glock	Virgin	1:17.377 min (S1)
21	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin	1:17.864 min (S1)
22	Bruno Senna	HRT	1:18.509 min (S1)
23	Karun Chandhok	HRT	1:19.559 min (S1)
24	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	no time

2010 Chinese Grand Prix - RESULTS

Jenson Button has leapt to a ten-point lead in the 2010 world championship, by winning yet another thrilling rain-affected grand prix.

McLaren's reigning world champion, who also won in Melbourne, is now ten points clear of Nico Rosberg, who finished third in Shanghai after another impressive weekend in the Mercedes.

Former title leader Felipe Massa is now just sixth in the standings after finishing sixth in Shanghai, where the Chinese venue was affected by showers throughout the 56-lap race.

Fernando Alonso, penalised for jumping the start, finished fourth, and is now two places ahead of China pole sitter Sebastian Vettel, who like his teammate and early race leader Mark Webber had a less than smooth race.

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2010 Australian Grand Prix Qualifying

Fernando Alonso on Saturday shed no light on suggestions he might be
able to challenge the Red Bulls for victory at Albert Park.

As in Bahrain two weeks ago, the Ferrari driver has qualified third, but the
cars ahead of him on the Melbourne grid are both on-form Red Bulls led by
back-to-back pole sitter Sebastian Vettel.

Asked if Ferrari's race pace might give him the edge on Sunday evening, the
Spaniard answered: "No idea", but he did admit that beating the Renault powered
cars "was a difficult thing to do here".

Local hero Webber, 33, was visibly disappointed with second on the grid, as
he crassly likened the eight-hundredth gap to his young German teammate as a
"bee's d**k".

After his brush with the police on Friday night, Lewis Hamilton was half a
second slower than his McLaren teammate and missed the cut for the top ten.

His team boss Martin Whitmarsh told the BBC that the 'hoon' story had been
"blown out of proportion" by the media, admitting that Hamilton "will be
disappointed with his performance".

With a better showing than in Bahrain was Michael Schumacher, who despite still trailing his teammate Nico Rosberg said Melbourne has been "a little bit more fun" than his comeback event.

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Laps
1	5	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:24.774	1:24.096	1:23.919	19
2	6	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:25.286	1:24.276	1:24.035	20
3	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:25.082	1:24.335	1:24.111	22
4	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:24.897	1:24.531	1:24.675	19
5	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:25.548	1:25.010	1:24.837	24
6	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes Benz GP Ltd	1:24.788	1:24.788	1:24.884	26
7	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes Benz GP Ltd	1:25.351	1:24.871	1:24.927	24
8	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:25.702	1:25.085	1:25.217	20
9	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	1:25.588	1:25.122	1:25.372	23
10	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:25.504	1:25.046	1:26.036	24
11	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:25.046	1:25.184		13
12	16	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:26.061	1:25.638		17
13	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:26.170	1:25.743		19
14	22	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.089	1:25.747		15
15	10	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:25.866	1:25.748		17
16	23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	1:26.251	1:25.777		16
17	17	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	1:26.095	1:26.089		16
18	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:26.471			10
19	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	1:28.797			9
20	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1:29.111			8
21	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:29.592			8
22	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1:30.185			8
23	21	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1:30.526			10
24	20	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	1:30.613			10