2009 Bahraini GP, qualifying: Trulli leads Toyota front row 

Timo Glock second, Sebastian Vettel third.

Written by Nick on April 25th, 2009 at 5:19 pmLast Update: April 26th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Toyota’s Jarno Trulli took earlier today the pole position for Sunday’s Bahraini Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit. The Italian clocked a best time of 1:33.431 and was followed by his team mate Timo Glock and Chinese GP winner Sebastian Vettel.

Fourth time for Brawn GP’s Jenson Button, fifth for McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, sixth for Rubens Barrichello, seventh for Fernando Alonso and eighth for Felipe Massa.

13th and 14th place in Sunday’s starting grid for the BMW Sauber drivers following another diasppointing qualifying session.

Chinese GP second place finisher Mark Webber was knocked out in Q1 and ended 19th as he was impeded by Force India’s Adrian Sutil. The stewards, however, met after qualifying and handed a three-place grid penalty to the German that demotes him to 19th place.

2009 Bahraini Grand Prix, Qualifying Session results:

Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps
1 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:32.779 1:32.671 1:33.431 20
2 10 Timo Glock Toyota 1:33.165 1:32.613 1:33.712 20
3 15 Sebastian Vettel 2936RBR-Renault 1:32.680 1:32.474 1:34.015 18
4 22 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:32.978 1:32.842 1:34.044 20
5 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:32.851 1:32.877 1:34.196 18
6 23 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:33.116 1:32.842 1:34.239 20
7 7 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:33.627 1:32.860 1:34.578 20
8 3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:33.297 1:33.014 1:34.818 19
9 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:33.672 1:33.166 1:35.134 21
10 4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1:33.117 1:32.827 1:35.380 19
11 2 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:33.479 1:33.242 14
12 17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:33.221 1:33.348 13
13 5 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:33.495 1:33.487 13
14 6 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:33.377 1:33.562 13
15 8 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:33.608 1:33.941 18
16 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:33.722 10
17 12 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:33.753 9
18 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Mercedes 1:33.910 9
19 14 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:34.038 8
20 11 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:34.159 9

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