Australian Mark Webber seized pole position for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix ahead of German teammate Sebastian Vettel on an all Red Bull front row. The pole was the team's fifth in five races, and Webber's second of the season. “This pole was for the team, both sides of the garage have had about five hours sleep in the last two nights. They have really worked incredibly hard,” said Webber, who will start from the top slot for the third time in his career. “It's a sensational qualifying for both Seb and myself.” Lewis Hamilton was third fastest and shares the second row with Spaniard Fernando Alonso, his former McLaren teammate and double world champion who is now racing for the first time at home as a Ferrari driver. Formula One world champion Jenson Button, in a McLaren, and seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, for Mercedes, will line up together on the third row at the Circuit de Catalunya. Schumacher's sixth place marked the first time that the 41-year-old German, making a comeback after three years out, had qualified ahead of teammate Nico Rosberg and was also his highest grid position of the year. Rosberg qualified eighth with Poland's Robert Kubica seventh for Renault but the German was unhappy that Ferrari had released Alonso straight into his path in the pit lane at the start of the decisive final phase. Ferrari was fined Ferrari was fined $20,000 for releasing Fernando Alonso's car into the path of Rosberg's Mercedes. Alonso was not personally punished for the incident. The double world champion, who almost collided with Rosberg's car when he swept out of the garage, said he had been unsighted after Rosberg radioed his team to say the Spaniard should be penalized.
