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The unpredictability of this season was further highlighted with less than a second separating second to seventeenth position. In contrast to the previous two sessions, the remaining Red Bull — Sebastian Vettel — was waiting for a few moments at the end of the pit lane for the lights to go green for the ten-minute session, and was the first to run. He began a timed lap but had slower than usual pace meaning he would simply set sector times to allow him to be ahead of Kamui Kobayashi who could not run in Q3 and anyone else who would decide to not set a time in a bid to save tyres for the race.

This also gave Vettel the option of being able to choose which tyre compound he wanted to start the race on. Mercedes driver Michael Schumacher also only set sector times without actually completing a timed lap in order to be ahead of Kobayashi on the grid. The sole remaining McLaren of Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time with over five minutes remaining.

Not much happened for the entire session as only 'banker' laps were set as a benchmark for the final two frantic minutes of action. Vettel went out on track for another lap with under two minutes left, but later decided to pit without a lap time as he thought of saving tyres for the race and that maybe he did not have the pace of the top five cars.

As the session ended, most of the cars were still on 'hot' laps so a frantic finish to the session was a high probability. Following this Venezuelan Pastor Maldonado took pole from Alonso by 0. Soon after setting the fastest time, Hamilton who had never been on pole in Barcelona, was told to stop his car before he could make it back to the pit lane.

Hamilton was more than half a second clear of the Williams of Maldonado in second.

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Completing the top three was Ferrari's Alonso — it was the first time since the British Grand Prix that he qualified excluding penalties in the top three — followed by the Grosjean-led Lotus cars seven tenths slower than Hamilton's time. Vettel, Schumacher and Kobayashi did not set a lap time and thus had the option of choosing to start the race on either the hard or soft compound tyres.

Of particular note was the difference in the top three drivers to their teammates.

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At McLaren, Hamilton was first yet Button was eleventh; at Williams, Maldonado was second and Senna was eighteenth; while at Ferrari Alonso was third yet teammate Massa was seventeenth. After the session Lewis Hamilton was excluded from the results of the qualifying session due to insufficient fuel aboard his car. Over the radio his team told him to pull over immediately, however there was not enough fuel in the car to enable it to return the pits under its own power. It also did not have the one-litre fuel sample required for testing by the FIA after qualifying.

This meant that Hamilton would start from the very back of the grid as per article 6. At the Monaco Grand Prix Hamilton was due to start from the back due to a gearbox penalty but with Timo Glock starting from pit lane, Hamilton avoided starting last. On review of qualifying, Mark Webber thought the track would only improve by 2—3 tenths of a second by the end of the Q2 session however, the track actually improved by more like eight tenths of a second.

Later Webber said he "underestimated" other cars speed and was subsequently "caught with our pants down" highlighting the embarrassment of missing out on Q3. He also stated he was "happy" with his lap, also stating "it's the way it goes sometimes". Maldonado's previous best was seventh, set at the British Grand Prix , and his second place in Spain was elevated to pole position on the grid after Hamilton was excluded from qualifying.

His sixth place was elevated to fifth on the grid due to Hamilton's exclusion. Maldonado's pole position was the only one that he took during his Formula One career. The first European race of the season began at The wind speed was still around the 2. As the five red lights went out Fernando Alonso got a great start as the Williams of Pastor Maldonado attempted to push him to the dirty side of the track.

Maldonado could not match the Ferrari 's start and aggressiveness and was beaten to the first turn by Alonso who like led his home Grand Prix from the first turn.

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Lewis Hamilton , starting from 24th, was 20th by the end of lap 1 while Vergne and Massa made great starts after promoting themselves to 10th and 11th respectively. Marussia F1 's Charles Pic also had a bad start, going into a spin at the rear of the field, but was able to recover and continue the race. The two Red Bull drivers, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel, made very early pit stops on laps 7 and 8 respectively, switching to the harder tyres.

After lap 9 the Red Bull and Sauber teams were the only cars to have pitted, all choosing hard compound tyres. Sauber was thought to pit Kamui Kobayashi in order to cover the early-stopping Red Bulls. Shortly afterwards, the majority of the other drivers made their first scheduled pit stop, with Lotus, Mercedes and Force India the only front running teams to opt for the soft compound tyre again. On lap 13, Michael Schumacher hit Bruno Senna from behind after misjudging his braking, forcing both of them out of the race.

Hamilton, who was using a two-stop strategy, was running as high as 4th place when he finally pitted on lap On the exit of his pit box, Hamilton appeared to run over something.

Replays suggested that he could have hit a used tyre that a mechanic was holding. Mark Webber ran into problems on lap 17, losing several places from 13th place before pitting for the second time, where he was fitted with a new nose cone and a new set of hard tyres. Crucially for the Australian, before he lost front wing performance he led a train of six cars all close behind each other. The next round of pit stops occurred between laps 23 and Alonso pitted on lap 27 and prior to the pit stop was shown waving his hand in disgust at Charles Pic for not allowing the faster Ferrari to pass the lapped Marussia.

Narain Karthikeyan stopped at the end of the pit lane on track during lap 25, one of his wheels apparently not correctly fitted after his pit stop. After the Lotus cars switched back from soft to hard tyres, their pace was visibly more competitive with the leaders and it became clear a strategic error had occurred. Lap 34 saw a daring move from the Japanese driver Kobayashi on world champion Button where he out braked Button on the inside of turn 5 and gently nudged him further out of his way. Many cars hit the rev limiter down the front straight early and relied on delayed braking to complete a pass.

Hamilton made his second and final pit stop from 7th place on lap 36, rejoining the race in 14th place. Soon afterwards, Charles Pic withdrew from the race with mechanical problems, having just been handed a drive through penalty for ignoring blue flags for the Alonso incident. At the head of the field, Alonso was making steady inroads into Maldonado's lead, cutting it to 6 seconds by lap This delay cost him valuable seconds and, it was thought at the time, perhaps the race.

Unusually, the other Red Bull, Vettel, also got his front wing changed on lap Alonso eventually caught the back of Maldonado but did not have the ability to overtake him. Maldonado was clear on his focus of tyre preservation. The gap hovered around one second for some time until Alonso started dropping off. All the while a fast Vettel passed Hamilton and Rosberg in the closing stages to eventually claim 6th behind the sole remaining Sauber.

It appeared that the more experienced Alonso would eventually regain the lead, but Maldonado withstood the pressure and eventually Alonso decided to settle for second, rather than risk losing any more traction on his tyres. The win for Maldonado was his first in Formula One and eclipsed his previous best result - 8th in China.

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In fact it was only his third ever points scoring finish in 24 races. It was also Williams best result since the Brazilian Grand Prix. Kamui Kobayashi and Sebastian Vettel overtook Nico Rosberg late in the race for 5th and 6th places respectively. It was also Kamui Kobayashi 's equal best result of his Formula One career, matching his previous best of 5th from the Monaco Grand Prix. After the race, the stewards gave Michael Schumacher a five-place grid penalty at the next race, Monaco , after he crashed into Bruno Senna and caused them both to retire.

Ninety minutes after the race, [24] the Williams garage caught fire. Pit crews from several teams were able to bring the blaze under control. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Drivers' Championship standings Pos.