Mark Webber came so very close to clinching pole position for this weekend's United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. But despite putting in two purple sectors, the Australian was felled by a near-unbelievable effort from his team mate Sebastian Vettel after the chequered flag to deliver a dominant Red Bull front row lock-out with the rest of the field far behind them in the times. It had been a slow start to qualifying for the Red Bull pair. While everyone else was quick to get out onto the track at the start of Q1, Vettel and Webber sat back and left them to it. In hotter and windier conditions than any previous session so far in Austin this weekend,...
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