Rosberg grabs pole in Spain

f1 Rosberg grabs pole in Spain

Rosberg in pole again - Spanish GP

Hamilton shares front row in Spain

Rosberg heads Mercedes 1–2 in Qualifying

Nico Rosberg took his consecutive pole of 2013 and a third in a row for Mercedes with team mate Lewis Hamilton sharing the front row in Spain. The Mercedes dominated the qualifying as usual and looked stronger on Sector 3 of the Catalunya circuit carrying more speed and grip on their cars. Vettel and Raikkonen start on the second row of the grid while the Ferrari´s of Alonso and Massa took the third row. Grosjean, Webber, Perez and Di Resta of Force India completed the top10.

An impeding drive by Massa on Webber during Qualifying demotes him by 3places with a penalty. Meanwhile Gutierrez too impeded Raikkonen in Q2 and gets a 3place grid penalty.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:21.913	1:21.776	1:20.718
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:21.728	1:21.001	1:20.972
3	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull Racing–Renault	1:22.158	1:21.602	1:21.054
4	Kimi Räikkönen	Lotus–Renault	1:22.210	1:21.676	1:21.177
5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:22.264	1:21.646	1:21.218
6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:22.492	1:21.978	1:21.219
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus–Renault	1:22.613	1:21.998	1:21.308
8	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing–Renault	1:22.342	1:21.718	1:21.570
9	Sergio Perez	McLaren–Mercedes	1:23.116	1:21.790	1:22.069
10	Paul di Resta	Force India–Mercedes	1:22.663	1:22.019	1:22.233
11	Daniel Ricciardo	STR–Ferrari	1:22.905	1:22.127
12	Jean–Eric Vergne	STR–Ferrari	1:22.775	1:22.166
13	Adrian Sutil	Force India–Mercedes	1:22.952	1:22.346
14	Jenson Button	McLaren–Mercedes	1:23.166	1:22.355
15	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber–Ferrari	1:23.058	1:22.389
16	Esteban Gutierrez	Sauber–Ferrari	1:23.218	1:22.793
17	Valtteri Bottas	Williams–Renault	1:23.260
18	Pastor Maldonado	Williams–Renault	1:23.318
19	Giedo van der Garde	Caterham–Renault	1:24.661
20	Jules Bianchi	Marussia–Cosworth	1:24.713
21	Max Chilton	Marussia–Cosworth	1:24.996
22	Charles Pic	Caterham–Renault	1:25.070