So RedBull Racing head into tomorrow's Indian GrandPrix in exactly the same fashion they did in Korea with both car's locking out the front row, however today it was Sebastian Vettel's turn to take pole by just four tenths of a second ahead of team-mate Mark Webber. Vettel is looking for his fourth straight win to extend his lead in the Driver's Championship.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton will start from the second row of the grid in 3rd place alongside team-mate Jenson Button who start's 4th.Vettel's main challenger for the championship, Fernando Alonso could only manage 5th on the grid but is adament that he can still win this year's championship. So with Mark Webber saying that if he is leading and Vettel is second he will not move aside for Vettel, Alosno could as the race progresses be in a position to take advantage of that.
Alonso is joined on the third row of the grid by team-mate Felipe Massa who is in turn ahead of a very disappointed Kimi Raikkonen who felt that he had the car to challenge for a top five qualifying spot however he admitted that he made change's to his car at the end Free Practice Three this morning unfortunately for the Iceman he said that they didn't seem to work and he refused to point the finger at the Lotus team and admitted that he had made the wrong call.
All is not lost for Lotus however, in my opinion as Kimi showed on Friday that he has very good long run pace with the car so we shall have to wait and see what happens tomorrow. It is a very long race.
It was a disappointing session for Mercedes who have in my opinion fallen off the pace of the first runner's dramatically in the latter part of the season. Nico Rosberg who won in China at the start of the season got his car into Q3 however he will start from 10 after opting to save tyre's for the race. Meanwhile team-mate Michael Schumacher who as we all know is being replaced at Mercedes by Lewis Hamilton next season will start down in 14th place.
Hamilton's replacement at McLaren for next season Sergio Perez did a good job for Sauber despite being forced to sirt out FP1 yesterday as he will star from 8th place on the grid just behind Kimi.
So with no grid penalties this weekend we are in for an extremely interesting start and a great race, I predict however that the RedBull's will dominate the race and that Vettel is most likely in my opinion to take the win tomorrow. But after all this is Formula One and anything can happen.
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