Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel open the opportunity to win the 2009 Japanese Grand Prix. He certainly would start the race from the front grid, having won his fourth pole-position this season at the 2009 f1 japanese grad prix qualifying session, Saturday (3/10/2009)
This result is his continued impressive performance in free practice I. At that time Vettel successful became the fastest, while appearing on the wet and slippery track.
Like Vettel Toyota driver Jarno Trulli also managed to continue his success in practice sessions. After being the fastest in free practice III, he was able to grab second place in the qualifying session.
Meanwhile, defending F1 champion 2008 Lewis Hamilton park at the third position, followed by a whiz Force India Adrian Sutil.
Qualifying this time is coloring by 3 times red flag. After all the delays in Q2, the red flag flew again soon after the start of Q3 when Heikki Kovalainen dropped his McLaren at the slippery Degner Two on his first flier. With Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Buemi having been in the wars in Q2 and damaging his car too badly to participate in Q3, the fifth row of the grid was quickly decided. After a five-minute delay the session resumed.
Qualifying took place in near perfect conditions, with bright sunshine and a track temperature that reached 37 degrees Celsius.
Q2 was red flagged almost immediately, after Kovalainen had set the only time of 1m 31.195s, when Toro Rosso’s Jaime Alguersuari went off on the exit to Degner One and crashed heavily head-on into the tyre barrier at Degner Two. The Spaniard was unhurt and soon out of the wreckage, but the session was delayed by eight minutes.
The session resumed long enough for Trulli to go fastest with 1m 30.737s before team mate Timo Glock went wide exiting the final corner and augered into the tyre wall on the outside, bringing out another red flag. This time the ambulance was needed, but Glock was seen to be waving and giving a thumbs up as he was taken to the circuit’s medical centre.
Official reports say his general condition is good, but he was taken to hospital complaining of back and leg pains.
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