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Vettel on top

Sebastien Vettel has taken a surprise pole position in the first GP of the season.

The Red Bull cars have not looked the fastest all weekend, right up until it counted. Vettel put a sterling lap in to take the top spot ahead of the two Ferrari’s. But even there it was not the expected result with Felipe Massa getting one over on his highly rated team mate Alonso.

Lewis managed to get the pace of the McLaren upto a level that was good enough to get fourth spot, but neither of the McLaren cars look all that well balanced, lets hope that the team have taken a setup choice that suits the race, rather than qualifying.

Nico showed that his very illustrious team mate is struggling to get his rhythm back, as he is 3 tenths faster than the mighty Michael Schumacher.

The new teams all did well, with all cars, even both of the HRT cars running, which meant that Karun Chandhok even managing to run seven laps, the first laps he and his car have run all weekend.

This weekend is shaping up to be a decent race, most of the teams at the front will have to start on the soft tyres, and everyone from Rubens down will have a choice, so likely starting on the harder tyre choice.

Bring on the Bahrain GP. It’s going to be interesting.