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Turkish GP Pole
Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3
1. Vettel Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:27.330 1:27.016 1:28.316
2. Button Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:27.355 1:27.230 1:28.421
3. Barrichello Brawn-Mercedes (B) 1:27.371 1:27.418 1:28.579
4. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:27.466 1:27.416 1:28.613
5. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:27.529 1:27.195 1:28.666
6. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:27.556 1:27.387 1:28.815
7. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:27.508 1:27.349 1:28.858
8. Alonso Renault (B) 1:27.988 1:27.473 1:29.075
9. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:27.517 1:27.418 1:29.191
10. Kubica BMW-Sauber (B) 1:27.788 1:27.455 1:29.357
11. Heidfeld BMW-Sauber (B) 1:27.795 1:27.521
12. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:27.691 1:27.629
13. Glock Toyota (B) 1:28.160 1:27.795
14. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:28.199 1:28.207
15. Sutil Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:28.278 1:28.391
16. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:28.318
17. Piquet Renault (B) 1:28.582
18. Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:28.708
19. Fisichella Force India-Mercedes (B) 1:28.717
20. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:28.918

Sebastian Vettel denied Jenson Button pole position for the Turkish Grand Prix after winning a superb battle at the end of qualifying.

The result is a major boost for the Red Bull driver's fast-fading title hopes, with Vettel now 28 points behind Button in the standings after crashing in Monaco.

Sebastian Vettel denied Jenson Button pole position for the Turkish Grand Prix after winning a superb battle at the end of qualifying.

The result is a major boost for the Red Bull driver's fast-fading title hopes, with Vettel now 28 points behind Button in the standings after crashing in Monaco.
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Red Bull Racing technical chief Adrian Newey hopes that his team's hunger and desire to succeed this year will help overcome the financial might of the manufacturers in the fight for world championship glory.
Although Newey concedes that Red Bull does not have the resources to match the likes of Ferrari, McLaren and BMW Sauber, he thinks other factors could come into play.
When asked if he felt Red Bull was a top team now, Newey responded: "It is a team that has been a top team for the last four races. As we all know motor racing is a fast changing business so the challenge now is trying to keep it there."

"I think from a resource side then we are clearly smaller than some of our rivals, but from a hunger and drive side of it then we are going to keep pushing, so what can I say?" said Newey in Spain on Friday. "History will tell in the future."
Newey thinks it is inevitable that the manufacturer teams will keep throwing money at improving their cars over the course of the season, but reckons that the self-belief his team has now after triumphing in Shanghai could be more important.
"I suppose one of the things about getting a bit of success is it gives the team confidence," said Newey. "Red Bull Technology, we did win a race last year obviously at Monza, but I think when the cars are in the same place as the design office, it gives people a bit more confidence. It is more immediate.
"It is a funny thing about winning races. When you are not winning then it looks an impossible task and you can feel sometimes a bit deflated that you can't seem to win a race. If you do win a race, you don't feel you are doing anything differently.
"You have suddenly won a race and it is the old saying - it gets the monkey off your back. From the people at Milton Keynes, who were at Jaguar and are now at Red Bull, we shed that monkey in a way that perhaps they feel it more than when we won the race at Monza last year."
Although Red Bull's title chances will become clearer after it introduces its double-decker diffuser design, potentially at the Monaco Grand Prix, Newey drew short of making any firm predictions that Red Bull could go all the way to winning the world title.
"It's too early to think about that to be perfectly honest," he said. "My attitude in this position is always let's just keep our head down and not worry about what everyone else is doing. We will concentrate on doing the best job we can and see where it takes us."
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Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Honer insists there is still much more to come from his outfit following its latest showings.
Sebastian Vettel has moved into third place in the standings after winning the Chinese Grand Prix and finishing second in Bahrain.

The Shanghai victory was the first for Red Bull Racing, but championship leader Jenson Button reckons the Milton Keynes-based squad is now the team to beat despite the Brawn driver having won the last race at Sakhir.
Red Bull is yet to introduce a double-decker diffuser, as well as other updates, and Horner reckons there is still a lot of potential to be realised.
"I think that we have got a good car," said Horner. "We have got a lot of developments to come and we still have the double-diffuser to look forward to.
"So it is still early days, but we have clearly demonstrated in wet and dry conditions now what our potential is."
Horner added that is convinced Vettel could have won the Bahrain Grand Prix last Sunday if he hadn't been stuck behind Lewis Hamilton and Jarno Trulli for several laps.
"You will see on the race plot that we would have followed Jenson, and we had the overlap of about three or four laps on each stint," he added. "So I think we would have jumped him at the stop. It was hard to follow other cars as well, as it was doing quite a lot of damage to the tyres.
"We could see we had the pace, but well done to Jenson for making his opportunity work for him."
He added: "Toyota tried a different strategy, but we were very happy on the option. Sebastian was trying to look after them the best he could, behind Trulli and Hamilton. He did a brilliant job of doing that, so he could exploit the benefit from them in free air.
"Then on the prime at the end we had no real problem. We went out the pits 14 seconds behind the Brawn and with three laps to go we had closed it down to about nine seconds. Then obviously they turned their engines down."
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Two racer Red Bull Racing Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber bring Red Bull racing team in top performance break the dominated of Two Racer Brawn GP Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello in two series. In 3th, GP China, Vettel and Webber with briliant performance goes to podium in one and two.
The Heavy Rain in shanghai make the circuit going very wet the safety car bring the racer start behind them. The Blind spot in heavy rain is reason why the race start with safety car front.

After The safety car out race began, but the rain still going and the 1st racer going in pit stop is fernando alonso he goes to pit to chage the strategy.
Very heavy rain make blind spot, wet circuit make some racer such as Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Sebastien Buemi, Sebastian Bourdais dan Adrian Sutil out of track cause can see the track or slip in wet circuit.

The advantage now went back to Vettel, but a slick refuelling stop by Brawn got Button back out in second place ahead of Massa, whose Ferrari rolled to a silent halt on the 21st lap. The race resumed on Lap 23, and with a lighter fuel load Vettel sprinted away from Button and Webber.
“Vettel is only quicker by fuel effect,” the Brawn team told Button, “and Webber is also shorter.” But the Australian moved ahead as Button missed his braking for Turn 14 on the 29th lap. Now it was a Red Bull one-two, but Button snatched second back two laps later when Webber ran wide in the final corner on a track slipper than a skating rink. Not to be outdone, however, Webber snatched the place back within a lap with a terrific counter-attack.
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