Sebastian Vettel completed up for his Bahrain GP dissatisfaction by griping pole position courtesy of a incredible lap in Melbourne on Saturday. With hometown racer Mark Webber second, Red Bull Racing happy its first ever front row lockout as 2008 Champion Lewis Hamilton starts 11th for McLaren after encountering traffic in Q2 session.
3rd place went to Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, the just other driver to get within 0.2s of Vettel's P1 time.
Button wills line-up fourth on the grid after outpacing the second Ferrari of Felipe Massa as well as the two Mercedes GPs with Nico Rosberg leading Michael Schumacher.
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2010 FORMULA 1 AUSTRALIAN GP Qualifying Result
| Position | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | laps |
| 1 | Sebastian Vettel | Redbull | 1:24:774 | 1:24:096 | 1:23:919 | 19 |
| 2 | Mark Webber | Redbull | 1:25:286 | 1:24:276 | 1:24:035 | 20 |
| 3 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:25:082 | 1:24:335 | 1:24:111 | 22 |
| 4 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:24:897 | 1:24:531 | 1:24:675 | 19 |
| 5 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:25:548 | 1:25:010 | 1:24:837 | 24 |
| 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:24:788 | 1:24:788 | 1:24:884 | 26 |
| 7 | M Schumacher | Mercedes | 1:25:351 | 1:24:871 | 1:24:927 | 24 |
| 8 | R Barrichello | Williams | 1:25:702 | 1:25:085 | 1:24:217 | 20 |
| 9 | Robert Kubica | Renault | 1:25:588 | 1:25:122 | 1:25:372 | 23 |
| 10 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | 1:25:504 | 1:25:046 | 1:26:036 | 24 |
| 11 | Lewis Hamilton | McLAren | 1:25:046 | 1:25:184 | 13 | |
| 12 | Buemi | Toro Rosso | 1:26:061 | 1:25:638 | 17 | |
| 13 | V Liuzzi | Force India | 1:26:170 | 1:25:743 | 19 | |
| 14 | Pedro de la Rosa | BMW | 1:26:089 | 1:25:747 | 15 | |
| 15 | Nico Hulkenberg | Williams | 1:25:866 | 1:25:748 | 17 | |
| 16 | Kamui Kobayashi | BMW | 1:26:251 | 1:25:777 | 16 | |
| 17 | Jaime Alguersuari | Toro Rosso | 1:26:095 | 1:26:089 | 16 | |
| 18 | Vitaly Petrov | Renault | 1:26:471 | 10 | ||
| 19 | Heikki Kovalainen | Lotus F1 | 1:28:797 | 9 | ||
| 20 | Jarno Trulli | Lotus F1 | 1:29:111 | 8 | ||
| 21 | Timo Glock | Virgin | 1:29:592 | 8 | ||
| 22 | Lucas di Grassi | Virgin | 1:30:185 | 8 | ||
| 23 | Bruno Senna | HRT | 1:30:526 | 10 | ||
| 24 | Karun Chandhok | HRT | 1:30:613 | 10 |
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