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VETTEL NAILS BAHRAIN POLE
GERMANY’S F1 wonderboy racer Sebastian Vettel is nicknamed, ‘Baby Schuey’.
And he humbled his hero and countryman Michael Schumacher yesterday with a desert stormer of a show in Bahrain to snatch the season’s first pole position.
Ferrari duo Felipe Massa and double world champion Fernando Alonso – plus British pair Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button – were left trailing in his wake.
The Red Bull star, 22, resumed where he had left off in Abu Dhabi, the final race of last season, by bossing the high-speed qualifying ten-minute final shoot-out in Bahrain.
Schumacher, nearly 20 years his elder and desperate to enhance his legendary status after three years on the sidelines, had to settle for seventh on the grid.
But that was one place better than current champion Button, who admits his McLaren has been giving him problems.
He said: “I struggled. Something felt wrong. In the end it wasn’t good.”
Team-mate Hamilton, fourth fastest, was as near delirious as he ever gets when he said: “I’m overwhelmed. I am happy and I hope we can pull up a place or two in the race.
“I’m just grateful for all the work that has been put into the car.”
Eddie Jordan, who gave Schumacher his break when he was a team owner, was scathing of the seven-time champion’s return.
He said: “It is madness for him to come back. It does not make sense.”
Married dad-of-two Schumacher, with £900million in the bank, must have thought the outspoken Irishman had a point as he struggled vainly to match his team-mate Nico Rosberg.
Rosberg, who has not competed in as many GPs as Schumacher has won – 91 – finished three-tenths quicker in the final shoot-out.
He cheekily announced: “I’m not really happy with that position – I was hoping to get pole position.”
But Schumacher managed a thin smile and said: “Good for him. It was all very different for me from when I was last in F1.
“Right now I am not thinking too much about the race. I’ll leave that until the lights go out for the start.”
Vettel was full of enthusiasm for the race and said: “I can’t wait. It’s great to be back to where we were at the end of last season, leading the field. The car felt absolutely great.”
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