Qualifying in Malaysia – Red comes between Mercedes – Süddeutsche.de

• Lewis Hamilton can be in Malaysia not detract from a cloudburst and takes the pole -. Already the 40th in his career
• Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel is surprisingly faster than Nico Rosberg and starts on Sunday from a promising second place.

World Champion Lewis Hamilton has lightning, thunder and the attack of Sebastian Vettel defied and grabbed his second pole position of the season in the rain at Sepang. The British Mercedes driver is at the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday to go (9 clock / RTL and Sky) as in his opening win in Australia from pole position in the race

Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel (1:. 49.908 ), however, was only seven hundredths of a second behind Hamilton (1: 49.834), much to the delight of his team boss Maurizio Arrivabene, who congratulated by radio: “Great.” Nico Rosberg (1: 50.299) had to settle for third place in the second silver arrow on the 5.543 km long route. A violent storm had the decisive Q3 shifted by half an hour later.

Vettel’s Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was the victim of the rapid onset of rain. The Finn was ranked only eleven when the waters flooded the track and an improvement made it impossible. “I could not do much, we had previously had to get out,” said the 35-year-old.

Formula 1 in Malaysia Vettel pushes on Rosberg

It’s raining in Malaysia, but Lewis Hamilton can it not be put off: The Briton takes the pole. Sebastian Vettel is surprisingly faster than Nico Rosberg and starts on the Sunday of a promising second place.

Also for Nico Hülkenberg (Emmerich) Force India was 13th in Q2 last stop. The 27-year-old took his off, given the weather conditions with humor: “Now it is fun, now a bit Wakeboard is down.”

A disaster experienced the two-time world champion Fernando Alonso (Spain) in his comeback for McLaren-Honda. In his first appearance after further training unexplained accident five weeks ago in Barcelona, ​​the 33-year-old still in dry conditions ended up totally cut off on the 18th Place.

“We thought we were already on. We depend far behind our potential capability behind, “Alonso said:” But I am optimistic that I do not have long to give interviews after the first qualifying “

Do not fare much better, his team-mate Jenson Button.. The English former world champion flew as 17 also out in Q1. The two Manor Marussia pilots Will Stevens (UK) and Roberto Merhi (Spain), who had gone no meter at the season opener in Australia, missed sporting a place in the starting line-up, but probably nonetheless allowed by the stewards for the Grand Prix. Merhi was in 1: 47.24 minutes clearly outside the 107 percent mark (1: 46.217), Stevens stopped a technical problem

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