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Vettel takes pole at Bahrain GP

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull has taken the pole position for Formula One's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, while Michael Schumacher will begin his comeback from a disappointing seventh-place finish.
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Alonso wins Bahrain grand prix

• Exhaust failure thwarts early leader Sebastian Vettel• Felipe Massa completes Ferrari 1-2, Schumacher finishes sixthFernando Alonso led a Ferrari one-two on his debut for the team as they made a stunning start to the Formula One season.Alonso produced the defining move of a dull Bahrain grand prix two-thirds of the way through, passing the Red Bull of Sebastian Vettel, who was struggling with exhaust trouble.Felipe Massa also took advantage, meaning a Ferrari one-two. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton came third but his new team-mate, the world champion Jenson Button, could only manage seventh on his debut. Michael Schumacher finished sixth on his return after three years' absence.Vettel had led all the way until suffering the exhaust problem, eventually finishing an unhappy fourth.It was Ferrari's first one-two since the French grand prix in June 2008, and Alonso's first victory since Japan the same year when he was with Renault.The race was not the spectacle supporters had hoped for, with new rule changes appearing to have done little for the show.In the build-up to the race the drivers and team principals said the sport was venturing into the unknown, that there would either be plenty of thrills or it would be a procession. As it turned out, there was little excitement, save for a handful of moves involving the lower-placed cars.Many had also anticipated mayhem at the first corner, with all cars carrying large fuel loads following the decision to ban in-race refuelling.Instead the field virtually tip-toed their way around the right-hander, led by Vettel. But for his team-mate Mark Webber sending plumes of smoke billowing behind him, the opening turn would have been incident-free.Instead, blinded by white cloud, Renault's Robert Kubica and Adrian Sutil in his Force India both spun from their ninth and 10th positions but remarkably neither was struck as the traffic found a way round.The most significant move on that opening lap saw Alonso move past Massa into second, but beyond that little happened up until the first round of pit stops.Formula OneFerrariFernando AlonsoLewis Hamiltonguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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guardian.co.uk Fernando Alonso win delights Ferrari

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Roundup: Ferrari Drivers on Top in Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix

Fernando Alonso passed his teammate Felipe Massa at the second corner and overtook the pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel on the 34th of 49 laps to win the Bahrain Grand Prix.
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Vettel claims Bahrain pole

• Vettel beats Massa and Alonso into second and third• Lewis Hamilton fourth, Michael Schumacher seventhRed Bull's Sebastian Vettel will start the first race of the 2010 season on pole position after edging out the Ferraris in qualifying for the Bahrain grand prix. Last year's championship runner-up put in a stunning lap in the closing 10-minute qualifying session at the Sakhir circuit to beat the Ferrari pair of Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso into second and third, with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton fourth and the returning Michael Schumacher down in seventh place.Vettel, who finished the 2009 campaign by winning two of the final three races, was brilliant throughout all three sessions, finishing second in the opening 20 minutes, before topping the middle 15-minute stint and then coming out on top at the end. The young German ultimately finished with a lap of one minute 54.101sec, with Massa 0.141sec adrift and Alonso a further 0.4sec down.Hamilton won his first battle of the Britons with team-mate Jenson Button at McLaren as the world champion struggled during the course of the afternoon and will start eighth directly behind seven-time champion Schumacher. The 41-year-old, on his comeback after three and a half years in retirement, was again bettered by his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg, as he was in all three practice sessions.Vettel's team-mate Mark Webber starts sixth, with Robert Kubica in his Renault ninth behind Button, and Force India's Adrian Sutil a fine 10th.In the dying moments of Q2, Button managed to scrape his way into the top 10, edging out his Brawn team-mate from last season in Rubens Barrichello, now with Williams, by 0.162sec. Behind the veteran Brazilian will be Force India's Vitantonio Liuzzi and the second Williams of promising German rookie Nico Hulkenberg, who was only half-a-second down on Barrichello.The Saubers of Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi will start 14th and 16th, with Toro Rosso's Sebastien Buemi splitting the Spanish and Japanese drivers. On his debut, Renault's Russian rookie Vitaly Petrov knows the task he now faces after seeing team-mate Kubica's performance as he will start 17th, finishing a yawning 1.7sec behind the Pole at the end of the session.It was no great surprise to see the three new teams occupying the bottom six positions come the conclusion to the initial 20-minute session. And it was Virgin who were best of the newcomers thanks to Timo Glock, and that after seeing a wheel roll off his car in final practice earlier today due to a loose nut. The German will start 19th, edging the Lotus Racing pair of Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen into 20th and 21st places, with just 0.6sec separating the trio.Glock's team-mate Lucas di Grassi was a further 0.2sec adrift, leaving Hispania Racing's Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok bringing up the rear of the now 24-strong grid.Positions after qualifying1 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Red Bull 1min 54.101secs, 2 Felipe Massa (Bra) Ferrari 1:54.242, 3 Fernando Alonso (Spa) Ferrari 1:54.608, 4 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) McLaren 1:55.217, 5 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:55.241, 6 Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull 1:55.284, 7 Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes GP 1:55.524, 8 Jenson Button (Gbr) McLaren 1:55.672, 9 Robert Kubica (Pol) Renault 1:55.885, 10 Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India 1:56.309, 11 Rubens Barrichello (Bra) Williams 1:55.330, 12 Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) Force India 1:55.653, 13 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Williams 1:55.875, 14 Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) BMW Sauber 1:56.237, 15 Sebastien Buemi (Swi) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:56.265, 16 Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) BMW Sauber 1:56.270, 17 Vitaly Petrov (Rus) Renault 1:56.619, 18 Jaime Alguersuari (Spa) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:57.071, 19 Timo Glock (Ger) Virgin Racing 1:59.728, 20 Jarno Trulli (Ita) Lotus F1 1:59.852, 21 Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Lotus F1 2:00.313, 22 Lucas di Grassi (Bra) Virgin Racing 2:00.587, 23 Bruno Senna (Bra) HRT-F1 2:03.240, 24 Karun Chandhok (Ind) HRT-F1 2:04.904Formula OneMotor sportSebastian VettelRed Bullguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Schumacher Comes Out of Retirement to Challenge Formula One

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