Hamilton grabs pole position at Monza 

First and fourth row for Force India

Written by David on September 12th, 2009 at 3:18 pmLast Update: September 13th, 2009 at 3:51 pm

Lewis HamiltonReigning world champion Lewis Hamilton has grabbed his second pole position in the season for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo di Monza. The Briton clocked a best time of 1:24.066 beating by 0.195 seconds Force India’s Adrian Sutil (1:24.261).

Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen ended up third (1:24.523) ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen (1:24.845), Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello (1:25.015) and Jenson Button (1:25.030), Force India’s Tonio Liuzzi (1:25.043), Renault’s Fernando Alonso (1:25.072) and the two Red Bulls with Sebastian Vettel ninth (1:25.180) and Mark Webber tenth (1:25.314).

Ferrari’s Giancarlo Fisichella made it up to 14th, followed by BMW’s Nick Heidfeld, Toyota’s Timo Glock, Williams’ Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Rosberg, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari.

2009 Italian Grand Prix, Qualifying Session results:

Pos. No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps
1 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:23.375 1:22.973 1:24.066 23
2 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:23.576 1:23.070 1:24.261 24
3 4 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:23.349 1:23.426 1:24.523 28
4 2 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:23.515 1:23.528 1:24.845 27
5 23 Rubens Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes 1:23.483 1:22.976 1:25.015 23
6 22 Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes 1:23.403 1:22.955 1:25.030 26
7 21 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:23.578 1:23.207 1:25.043 26
8 7 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:23.708 1:23.497 1:25.072 25
9 15 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 1:23.558 1:23.545 1:25.180 23
10 14 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 1:23.755 1:23.273 1:25.314 24
11 9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:24.014 1:23.611 20
12 8 Romain Grosjean Renault 1:23.975 1:23.728 22
13 5 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:24.001 1:23.866 17
14 3 Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 1:23.828 1:23.901 24
15 6 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:23.584 1:24.275 14
16 10 Timo Glock Toyota 1:24.036 11
17 17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:24.074 9
18 16 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:24.121 12
19 12 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 1:24.220 12
20 11 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 1:24.951 11

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