Vettel takes pole,Sutil keeps Force India in hunt for points

Vettel,who has already secured the drivers’ championship,said the circuit is tricky and it makes for an interesting race tomorrow.

“I don’t know if being on the left or the right side of the track is really an advantage or not; there’s not one side that seems to be the clean side,as we tend to run down the middle. It was a good battle and after the first run it was very close,so I knew I had to do a little bit better on the second.

“We decided to only do one timed lap each time,it was still a bit slippery,but overall I’m very happy. Tomorrow it is going to be a long race,we start starting the best possible position,so we’ll see what happens,” Vettel said.

Mark Webber (1:24.508) was third fastest but he will join his Red Bull teammate Vettel in the front row as Hamilton has been pushed back to fifth due to a three-place grid penalty he received for ignoring the yellow flag,yesterday.

Thus Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso will move to third from original fourth,followed by McLaren’s Jenson Button. Up next is Ferrari’s Felipe Massa,who crashed in the final seconds after hitting the raised part of a kerb.

India’s Narain Karthikeyan had finished in the 22nd position but has been forced to start from the rear of the grid after receiving a five-place penalty for impeding Michael Schumacher’s car in Q1 at turn 10.