Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday. Hamilton's best time at the Shanghai International Circuit was 1 minute, 34.484 seconds, qualifying a quarter of a second ahead of Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso will start third in Sunday's race. A cat-and-mouse qualifying session saw all runners restrict their time on the track to preserve their tyres for the race, with all of the top ten having only one flying lap in the final stage of qualifying. McLaren's Jenson Button and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel both elected to do their flying lap on the harder of the two tyre compounds, sacrificing grid position so they can have a...
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