Vettel means business with superb pole in Bahrain

Reigning world champion bounced back to form after a sluggish three rounds with an amazing pole on the last lap of the Q3 beating Red Bull team mate Webber's time while McLaren's Lewis Hamilton could not beat the time set by Vettel but got sandwiched between the RedBulls.

Vettel and Red Bull had a not so impressive practice sessions and Q1 and Q2 but pulled it up on Q3 to grab the pole. Lewis Hamiton' s Mclaren look strong throughout the session but had to concede with 2nd fastest time and team mate Button came in 4th fastest. Nico Rosberg and Mercedes was expected to be  the favorites after impressive performance in Practice 2 and 3 but only could manage 5th fastest while team mate Michael Schumacher had a disappointing qualifying session due to a failed DRS mechanism in the rear wing which prevented him from doing a second run in Q1 to set a time and was stuck in 18th.   

Daniel Ricciardo made a impressive performance throughout the session and placed his Torro Ross on sixth followed by Grosjean of Lotus and Perez of Sauber. Alonso wills start from 9th after messing up at sector and failing to record a Q3 time. Force India's Paul di Resta just did an exploratory lap on Q3 on a harder tyre and did not set any time while retaining 10th spot on the grid.

Kimi Raikkonen failed to make it to the Q3 as faster times late runs by Perez and Grosjean and had to contend with 11th on the grid. Kobayashi, Hulkenberg, Massa, Bruni Senna, Kovaleinen and Pastor Maldonado were the other who made it to the Q2.

Schumacher, Vergne, Petrov, Pic, De la Rosa, Glock and Karthikeyan will be start at the back end of the grid.

Vettel said : "It feels great and I completely owe this one to the team. It wasn't an easy start to the season for us and there was a lot of expectation, but I think more than anything it was about what we expected from ourselves and we didn't match it. We've been working extremely hard on the car, trimming here and there and finding the right way to go forward. The boys haven't had much sleep the last few races - it was a tough race last weekend in China and now here, so it's good to put the car on pole for them. The car felt better all weekend, it wasn't the smoothest qualifying session, I nearly went out in Q1, but it's good to get the pole."