Hamilton claims pole position
Lewis Hamilton will start Sunday's Singapore GP from pole position
Lewis Hamilton grabbed his third pole in four races to further fire up his Formula One World Championship chances.
After winning from pole in Hungary and Italy of late, Hamilton will start Sunday's Singapore Grand Prix at the front of the grid in his McLaren alongside gatecrasher Pastor Maldonado in his Williams. Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel qualified in third place.
It is the first time since 1999 McLaren have claimed four successive pole positions, with Hamilton now in prime spot for his fourth win this year as he aims to close the 37-point gap to championship leader Fernando Alonso of Ferrari.
Alonso will start fifth, with McLaren's Jenson Button ahead of him on the grid in fourth.
Vettel won this race from pole last year and had been quickest in all three practice sessions, but had no answer to Hamilton's lap of one minute 46.362 seconds, the Briton finishing half a second up on Maldonado.
Force India's Paul Di Resta conjured a superb sixth, with Red Bull's Mark Webber seventh but under investigation and facing a five-place penalty for impeding Marussia's Timo Glock in Q1, whilst Lotus's Romain Grosjean starts eighth.
On the fifth row will be Mercedes duo Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg, neither driver setting a time after using up all three sets of their supersoft tyres in the first two sessions.
After claiming the 24th pole of his career, Hamilton said: "The guys have done a fantastic job all weekend.
"Coming here with some small things added from the last race and on a high-downforce track, we were not sure how it would work out. But the session was great, although I'm not sure what happened with Sebastian, who had been fastest all the way through before that.
"As for the race it is tough with high tyre degradation, so everyone is going to struggle. I'll have to get away cleanly. We'll stick to the strategy we have planned and be prepared if it doesn't work."
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Yesterday, I wrote, Vettel's free practice pace has no relevance to qualifying today and on Sunday. I allso said, Hamilton and Button will share the grid 1 & 2, but getting 50% right is not a bad result!! What counts is the day of the race. If Hamilton can make a clean get away there will be no one to catch him except his shadow!!
I do believe that McLaren duo are in a good position to share podium finishes and keep Alonso & Vettel at bay! We can expect to witness a superb race tomorrow and Hamilton winning the race with Button right behind him!!
Just hope lewis does get a decent start to keep him ahead of the wreckless Maldanado or if there is a coming together lets hope to see the FIA dish out the same punnishment to him that they gave to grosjean.
C'mon Lewis lets see another great drive from you.
Isnt it nice to see that olympic feel good factor still thriving amongst the Brits!!for goodness sake you muppets you have a star in Hamilton,so be proud,I dont even like F1 morea Rugby girl,where you see fans from either team sat alongside each other,without,a racist,comment,comment on a person you cannot possibly know or even come with ten feet of! assuming is a great british habit,and it always seems to make you happy even if your wrong...........now if only your brains could join your boodies and come down out of the tree's we all evolved from,there may be some chance of a decent debate,hey ho
go lewis go!!!!!!!
