Red Bull Motor Sports Racing

Sebastian Vettel bounced back to take his and Red Bull’s first pole position of the season in Sakhir on Saturday afternoon, as former fastest man Lewis Hamilton bumped Vettel’s team mate Mark Webber from the front row.
Hamilton had set the Q3 pace for McLaren with 1m 32.671s, but Webber beat that on his second run with 1m 32.637s to go fastest until Vettel posted 1m 32.422s, and Hamilton’s subsequent improvement to 1m 32.520s put him back on the front row. When it was clear that his second run would not better his first one’s time of 1m 32.711s, McLaren team mate Jenson Button eased off and will start fourth.

In a disappointing session for Mercedes, Nico Rosberg could only manage 1m 32.821s for fifth as Michael Schumacher lines up only 17th after a rear wing problem in Q1.
Daniel Ricciardo was a star all through qualifying and will start his Toro Rosso an excellent sixth on 1m 32.912s.

Romain Grosjean put his Lotus seventh on the grid with 1m 33.008s, with Sergio Perez for company on row four with 1m 33.394s for Sauber. Fernando Alonso messed up the first sector on his first run and thus did not record a Q3 time for Ferrari, while Force India's Paul di Resta completed just exploratory Q3 laps - notably on the harder tyre - also without setting a time. They start ninth and 10th

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