Again Sebastian Vettel walk again to get the second pole of the Formula 1 season in Malaysia. As always the top teams got a poker face during free practice ahead of qualifying for trying to cover his moves, but with the arrival of classification there is no way to hide anything and we have to put all the cards on the table.
The top teams have managed to hide the real cards during Q1 and Q2, while the rest gave their best to get themselves sorted. We, as always, and without real surprises, the only novelty about the GP of Australia has been that HRT has qualified for the race having failed to meet the 107% rule, so tomorrow we will have the Spanish team in the race for the first time this season.
To achieve this small milestone, have left alone at the beginning of Q1 new soft tires to roll painlessly lap time. It seems that this strategy has worked for them, because the second Virgin has been just 548 thousandths ahead of Liuzzi Hispania.
Another small surprise was Kamui Kobayashi (the final tenth), which has managed to strain the Sauber in Q3 by a return of book in Q2 and the ear to the very wet Michael Schumacher has finished eleventh to make one last attempt to turn pretty bad at the end of Q2. The Mercedes seemed to be hiding more things I had and when he finally has shown the reality has been that they are still lacking a good push to be on top.
Alguersuari getting a pretty good lap in Q2, though not as good as his team mate Sebastien Buemi, who has been right in front of Alguersuari, twelfth and thirteenth respectively. They have been in a position where perhaps they could sign a good performance and get placed in the points.
The pilots were qualified for the Q3 uneven supply of tires, although nearly all had booked a new soft play. Using the new set of soft tires, Fernando Alonso was fifth, While Felipe Massa was seventh, not bad to have made another attempt both waiting near the end of Q3.
Massa will in a sandwich composed of two Renaults, Who have gone to one shot as the Ferrari. Renault's strategy has been more or less successful, placing their drivers almost on par with Ferrari, which could lead to Ferrari than a few headaches.
Although it seemed that McLaren could be done with the pole, the end has shown that although they are up, Red Bull is way ahead of the rest, as Vettel flying over the Sepang circuit and showed the technical superiority that has the Red Bull team. So Sebastian Vettel got the pole in Malaysian GPSecond consecutive season and what I fear, not the last.
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