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Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton will start from pole position after pipping Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel in qualifying while Romain Grosjean holds on to third place despite his Lotus failing a post-session inspection.

British teenager Danny Kent snatches first grand prix pole position on final lap of Moto3 qualifying at Motegi, Japan.

Michael Schumacher was delighted to see team-mate Nico Rosberg claim pole for the Chinese GP, but admits he was not expecting either Silver Arrow to feature so highly.

Sebastian Vettel sets new record for single-season pole positions with 15th top spot after Brazilian GP qualifying at Interlagos.

Runaway F1 2011 World Championship leader Sebastian Vettel has downplayed his supreme qualifying form in the top flight, insisting there will only ever be one pole position king...

Michael Schumacher's former manager and Nico H?lkenberg's current manager Willi Weber has been sentenced to two years' probation by a German court in Stuttgart for embezzlement

If anybody thought they could finally bring Red Bull Racing's peerless pole position run in F1 2010 to an end in Istanbul, man of the moment Mark Webber had other ideas - though McLaren-Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton came close...

Heikki Kovalainen admitted to having 'pushed just a little too hard' at the end of qualifying for the European Grand Prix in Valencia - as a tiny twitch cost the him what would likely have been his second career F1 pole position.

Three Lolas-Aston Martin will start from the first and second rows of the grid for the N?rburgring 1,000kms this weekend - with the stated aim to replicate that performance when the points are handed out on race day.

Toll Holden Racing Team's Garth Tander secures pole for the second V8 Supercar race of the weekend at Townsville.

1. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1m 19.509s 2. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Brawn-Mercedes 1m 19.856s 3. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 1m 19.868s 4. Jarno Trulli Italy Toyota-Toyota 1m 20.091s

1. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1m 28.316s 2. Jenson Button Britain Brawn-Mercedes 1m 28.421s 3. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Brawn-Mercedes 1m 28.579s 4. Mark Webber Australia Red Bull-Renault 1m 28.613s

Marc Marquez has taken pole position for the 125cc French Grand Prix at Le Mans. The 40-minute session took place on a wet - but steadily drying - track, prompting countless spills as riders tested the ever-changing grip levels.

Questions from the floor Q: (Ottavio Daviddi - Tuttosport ) Jarno, I think the pressure will be very big starting from pole; are you afraid of that?

Jarno Trulli: "I'm thrilled to be back on pole again. This weekend has gone well and it's great to be starting at the front tomorrow."

Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock put their pre-season testing in Sakhir to good use in qualifying for this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, by storming to Toyota's first-ever front row lock-out in Formula 1 - as the team now eyes its breakthrough victory in the top flight on race day.

If Graham Rahal could race on the streets of St Petersburg every weekend, he probably would, after setting a second record in as many visits to the Florida venue on Saturday.

1. Jenson Button Britain Brawn-Mercedes 1m 35.181s 2. Jarno Trulli Italy Toyota-Toyota 1m 35.273s 3. Sebastian Vettel Germany Red Bull-Renault 1m 35.518s* 4. Rubens Barrichello Brazil Brawn-Mercedes 1m 35.651s**

Jenson Button was effusive in his praise for his Brawn GP team after scorching to pole position for this weekend's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne - admitting that he had forgotten what it felt like to see smiles in the garage and describing the result as absolute vindication for everyone havi

Casey Stoner has taken his ninth pole position of the year during the last qualifying session of the 2008 MotoGP season, at Valencia.

Lewis Hamilton's pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji Speedway has been lauded as 'possibly the best lap of his career so far' - even though the Formula 1 World Championship leader himself admitted it 'wasn't perfect'.

Formula 1 World Championship leader Lewis Hamilton did his utmost to break Ferrari's spirit by turning what had looked like being a scarlet benefit in qualifying for this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix into pole position for McLaren-Mercedes - with title rival Felipe Massa able to do no better tha

To come away from a qualifying session that had promised to deliver so much with just 15th and 16th positions was agonising for Renault in Singapore this weekend - particularly with pole position tip Fernando Alonso predicting it will now take 'a miracle' to regain ground on race day in the Far E

Casey Stoner needed just two qualifying tyres to put the seal on his pre-race dominance at Misano on Saturday, when the Ducati Marlboro star overcame a wrist injury to set his seventh consecutive pole position, a record in the (four-stroke) MotoGP era.