Vettel takes second pole in a row of the season in Malaysia

Sebastien Vettel continues on a good form in the beggining of the season as he took his second pole position ahead of tomorrow's Malaysian GP. It was a very exciting qualifying that we were offered in Malaysia at the Sepang circuit with pole position only being decided in the last instants, with Vettel beating Hamilton by just 0.1 seconds.

Hamilton had held the  position for most of Q3. He started with a 1.35.000s time, and then improved it to 1.34.974 on his final run. Still it wasn't enough as the German in a last instant push managed to lap in 1.34.870s taking pole position once again for him and Red Bull. Still it was much tighter qualifying than in Melbourne.

Mark Webber and Jenson Button were third and fourth respectively as Red Bull and McLaren dominated the fight for the first two lanes ahead of the Malaysian GP.

Fernando Alonso was the first behind the two dominant teams at the moment. He finished ahead of Nick Heidfeld, who put behind him the poor results in Melbourne, and his team-mate Felipe Massa. In the other Lotus Renault, Vitaly Petrov was eighth.

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg finished ninth, while Kobayashi completed the top-ten.

For the second time in a row, Michael Schumacher failed to reach Q3, the seven-time world champion, just missed out in the last instants being knocked out by his team-mate.

In Malaysia neither of the Toro Rossos managed to reach Q3. Having problems during Q1, as he lost a large chunk of sidepod bodywork, Sebastien Buemi finished qualifying in 12th position ahead of Jaime Alguersuari.

In Force India, Paul di Resta once again outpaced Adrian Sutil. The Brit was 14th at the end of Q2, while his team-mate only managed 17th spot. Melbourne hero Sergio Pérez had in Sepang a disappointing qualification as he only managed to secure 16th place, just behind Williams' Rubens Barrichello.

Victim from Q1 was William's Pastor Maldonado. The Colombian fought with his team-mate Rubens Barrichello until the end of the first part of the session but wasn't able to make a sufficient quick lap to continue to qualify to Q2. He joined the three slowest teams currently on F1.

In Malaysia Hispania had reasons to celebrate as they managed to comfortably make the 107% qualifying cut in Q1.