Qualifying – Vettel snatches home pole in Germany

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso led Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel in both Q1 and Q2 at Hockenheim, and again after the first runs in Q3, but on his very last run the German stopped the clocks in 1m 13.791s.

And when the dust had settled after the Spaniard had completed his second run he came up just two-thousandths of a second short, on 1m 13.793s. There could scarcely have been a more dramatic scene-setter for Sunday’s German Grand Prix…