Sebastian Vettel (1:24.119) won pole for the 2013 Indian Grand Prix, continuing his domination of the weekend. He led all sessions but Q1, including all three practice sessions. Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton were close but not close enough, while Mark Webber qualified fourth fastest on the harder tyre compound. He, Fernando Alonso, and Jenson Button (the latter two eighth and tenth fastest, respectively) will start on those medium tyres. As the soft tyres were blistering quite badly, tyre strategy will play a large decision in the race on Sunday. Though Q1 seemed fairly typical, it saw much interesting strategy decisions as some of the typical top ten drivers used soft tyres, possibly...
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