{"id":13953,"date":"2013-03-23T17:33:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13953"},"modified":"2013-03-23T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T17:33:48","slug":"vettel-takes-pole-position-at-a-rain-hit-sepang-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13953","title":{"rendered":"Vettel takes pole position at a rain-hit Sepang Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11115\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sebastian-vettel-red-bulltakespoleposition\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Sepang, Malaysia: <strong>Sebastian Vettel<\/strong> took the pole position at a rain-hit Sepang Circuit with on Saturday. This was the Red Bull&#8217;s triple world champion\u2019s 38th pole of his Formula One career. After the disappointment of Melbourne a week ago, when he dominated qualifying in the season-opening race before finishing third behind Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s Lotus and Alonso, Vettel was careful with his tyres on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel stormed across the line in a time of 1min 49.674sec, pipping Ferrari drivers Felipe Massa (1:50.587) and Fernando Alonso (1:50.727) with Mercedes pilot Lewis Hamilton fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the practice session, Sebastian Vettel, said, \u201cIt was very difficult as the circuit was half dry and half wet today \u2013 so it was difficult to find the right compromise between pushing hard and also saving the tyres. It was the right strategy to come in and change the tyres and the pace was there. It was a good session in Q3 and it was clear what we had to do, so I\u2019m pleased with the result. It\u2019s a long race tomorrow and whoever wins will have done the best job. We managed to save some tyres today which will help if the race is dry, but we will see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mark Webber, who finished 5th, said, \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to finish fifth. We didn\u2019t get the timing quite right in the last part of Q3, I thought I had more laps. We were quick enough, but we went too slow on the lap when we should have been going quick and it meant we didn\u2019t get a last timed lap in. The time doesn\u2019t represent how comfortable I felt in the car today and it\u2019s frustrating when you put so much work in and know you could have done better. I\u2019m looking forward to the race tomorrow \u2013 it should be interesting with the weather.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sepang, Malaysia: Sebastian Vettel took the pole position at a rain-hit Sepang Circuit with on Saturday. 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After the disappointment of Melbourne a week ago, when he dominated qualifying in the season-opening race before finishing third behind Kimi Raikkonen&#8217;s Lotus and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1585,1436,7074,6293,1695,2396,1694],"class_list":["post-13953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-felipe-massa","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-formula-1","tag-indian-sports-news-network","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-malaysian-grand-prix","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vettel takes pole position at a rain-hit Sepang Circuit - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=13953\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vettel takes pole position at a rain-hit Sepang Circuit - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sepang, Malaysia: Sebastian Vettel took the pole position at a rain-hit Sepang Circuit with on Saturday. 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