World Champ has to watch as rivals nearly snatch away pole
Saturday 21 September 2013 17:52, UK
Singapore GP pole-sitter Sebastian Vettel has admitted he felt a few pangs of anxiety as Red Bull's decision to limit the World Champion to a single flying lap in Q3 threatened to spectacularly backfire.
He hardly needs the help, but the failure of his title rivals to mount any sort of challenge on Saturday - while Hamilton was a subdued fifth, Kimi Raikkonen failed to make the top-ten for a second successive weekend, and Fernando Alonso was once again out-qualified by departing Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa - only served to underline the absolute supremacy of his position. Get ready for Sebastian the fourth. "We don't really look at what the others are doing, but the Ferrari has been struggling in qualifying at the last two events and normally has very good race pace. I'm sure they will come back, but obviously it's no harm for us today," added Vettel. "Our race pace looked very strong on Friday and so if all goes way then we should have a very good chance of getting a strong result." Which is Vettel's way of saying he expects to win - and so far this weekend, he has looked a racing certainty for victory from the word go.
