Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel grabbed his second pole position in a row on Saturday while F1 leader Jenson Button qualified in sixth place in the British Grand Prix.
Button's teammate Rubens Barrichello, whose last win was with Ferrari in 2004, took second place on the starting grid for Brawn GP with Australian Mark Webber third for Red Bull.
The pole, in a time of one minute 19.509 seconds, was the fourth of Vettel's Formula One career and third of the season. Barrichello lapped in 1:19.856.
Vettel's time looked even more impressive when official figures published later showed his car weighing in at 666.5 kg compared to Barrichello and Button's 657.5. Webber's Red Bull weighed 659.5.
The 21-year-old German clinched victory in Chinese GP on April making him the only driver other than Button to have won a race this year.
Button has a 26 point lead over Brazilian Barrichello, and is 32 ahead of Vettel, with 10 races remaining but was gloomy about his chances after struggling to heat up his tyres.
Webber blamed Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen for slowing him on a hot lap and keeping him off the front row.
World champion Lewis Hamilton, who put in one of the all-time great performances in the wet to win for McLaren last year, suffered the worst qualifying performance of his Formula One career in 19th place.
Italian Jarno Trulli qualified fourth for Toyota, with Japan's Kazuki Nakajima -- yet to score a point this year -- registering a career-best grid position with fifth for Williams, albeit with the lightest car on the grid.
Source: Xinhua
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