F1 Quals: China 2010!

This is starting to become boring.  Let's take a look at the grid for tomorrow's Grand Prix of China:

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	1:36.317	1:35.280	1:34.558
2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	1:35.978	1:35.100	1:34.806
3	HWMNBN	Ferrari	1:35.987	1:35.235	1:34.913
4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	1:35.952	1:35.134	1:34.923
5	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:36.122	1:35.443	1:34.979
6	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:35.641	1:34.928	1:35.034
7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:36.076	1:35.290	1:35.180
8	Robert Kubica	Renault	1:36.348	1:35.550	1:35.364
9	Slappy Schumacher	Mercedes GP	1:36.484	1:35.715	1:35.646
10	Adrian F'n Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:36.671	1:35.665	1:35.963
11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:36.664	1:35.748
12	NKOTT	STR-Ferrari	1:36.618	1:36.047
13	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1:36.793	1:36.149
14	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:37.031	1:36.311
15	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	1:37.044	1:36.422
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	1:37.049	1:36.647
17	Pete Rose	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	1:37.050	1:37.020
18	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	1:37.161
19	Timo Glockenspiel	Virgin-Cosworth	1:39.278
20	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	1:39.399
21	Heikki Kovalaineninnie	Lotus-Cosworth	1:39.520
22	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	1:39.783
23	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	1:40.469
24	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	1:40.578

For the fourth out of four times, Red Bull's Seb Vettel is on pole.  If his car had managed to hang together in the first two races, I think there's a very good chance he'd be running away with the season.  Fortunately for us fans the RB6 might be a delicate little flower.

Not as delicate as Seb Buemi's Toro Rosso, perhaps, but still fragile.  No great suprises on the grid today; in fact, there wasn't much in the way of drama in any of the qualy rounds... no remarkable last-gasp heroics, no desperate clawing to get into the next round, no heavy-hitters leaving the pits with a tire blanket still attached.

Actually, I'd like to see that last one.  Bet mechanical grip would be affected a bit.

I digress.  The race is at 130am Pond time, set your VCR and we'll see you here for the F1 UPDATE!

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