2009 Bahraini GP, qualifying: Trulli leads Toyota front row
Timo Glock second, Sebastian Vettel third.
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 |