Pit Lane F1
Round 4 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2013-04-21
Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) took pole for the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix with a 1:32.330 lap.
Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) joined the front row, 0.254s shy of pole, with Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) third on the grid. Jenson Button (McLaren) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Romain Grosjean (Lotus F1) missed the cut by 0.060s.
Q3 was settled inside 1.372s — pole to P10 — with Jenson Button (McLaren) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:33.364 | 1:32.867 | 1:32.330 | 1:32.330 |
| 2 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:33.327 | 1:32.746 | 1:32.584 | +0.254 |
| 3 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:32.878 | 1:33.316 | 1:32.667 | +0.337 |
| 4 |
| 44Lewis Hamilton |
| Mercedes |
| 1:33.498 |
| 1:33.346 |
| 1:32.762 |
| +0.432 |
| 5 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:33.966 | 1:33.098 | 1:33.078 | +0.748 |
| 6 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:33.780 | 1:33.358 | 1:33.207 | +0.877 |
| 7 | 40Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:33.762 | 1:33.335 | 1:33.235 | +0.905 |
| 8 | 99Adrian Sutil | Force India | 1:34.048 | 1:33.378 | 1:33.246 | +0.916 |
| 9 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus F1 | 1:33.827 | 1:33.146 | 1:33.327 | +0.997 |
| 10 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:34.071 | 1:33.702 | — | +1.372 |
| 11 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:33.498 | 1:33.762 | — | +1.432 |
| 12 | 11Sergio Pérez | McLaren | 1:34.310 | 1:33.914 | — | +1.584 |
| 13 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Toro Rosso | 1:34.120 | 1:33.974 | — | +1.644 |
| 14 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Sauber | 1:34.409 | 1:33.976 | — | +1.646 |
| 15 | 77Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 1:34.425 | 1:34.105 | — | +1.775 |
| 16 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:34.314 | 1:34.284 | — | +1.954 |
| 17 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:34.425 | — | — | +2.095 |
| 18 | 21Esteban Gutiérrez | Sauber | 1:34.730 | — | — | +2.400 |
| 19 | Charles Pic | Caterham | 1:35.283 | — | — | +2.953 |
| 20 | 17Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 1:36.178 | — | — | +3.848 |
| 21 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 1:36.304 | — | — | +3.974 |
| 22 | 4Max Chilton | Marussia | 1:36.476 | — | — | +4.146 |