Webber equals Aussie pole record in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi: Mark Webber seized post position for the floodlit Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday with Red Bull partner and fourfold best on the planet Sebastian Vettel making
an uncommon blunder and needing to settle for second best. The post, with Webber approaching the finish of his Formula One vocation this month, was the Australian's thirteenth in 12 years and second in three races. "Imprint completed an exceptionally great lap so congrats to him," said Vettel, who is pursuing his seventh win in succession in the wake of wrapping up a fourth progressive title with triumph from shaft in India a weekend ago. "I may as well have improved a tiny bit, however I don't know whether it might have been sufficient. He made an extraordinary showing, no mix-ups," included the German, whose group additionally secured their fourth constructors' crown consecutively in India. "We lost it thus one, too bad gentlemen," the 26-year-old had said over the group radio. Mercedes filled the second line at the Yas Marina circuit, with Germany's Nico Rosberg qualifying third and Britain's 2008 title holder Lewis Hamilton fourth notwithstanding turning off on his last lap. Just Vettel and Hamilton, when he was with Mclaren, had at one time qualified on post in the four races to date in the Emirate. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, presently second by and large and battling to lift his group in front of Mercedes and once more to second in the constructors' title, had a hopeless nighttime and will begin eleventh. It was the first occasion when this season the Spaniard has neglected to qualify in the top 10 yet it shocked no one after Ferrari seemed, by all accounts, to be battling in practice. Brazilian colleague Felipe Massa, who is leaving the group at the close of the year, qualified one place in front of the twofold champion. "All weekend we haven't been so speedy and in qualifying we were not so quick," Alonso told news people. "Likewise my laps were not so clean and I lost a few tenths. Possibly it is better to begin in this position tomorrow." Kimi Raikkonen, who is third in general and 24 focuses behind Alonso, qualified fifth for Lotus in a race he had scrutinized not coming to just days prior. The Ferrari-bound Finn, who told correspondents on Friday that he had not been paid all season and could yet go out of the last two races in Austin, Texas, and Brazil, will have Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg nearby. Raikkonen's buddy Romain Grosjean qualified a disappointing seventh.