F1: Vettel takes ninth pole of the season

Pole-position king Sebastian Vettel clinched his ninth top spot of the season to edge out Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber in qualifying for tomorrow's Korean Grand Prix.

For Vettel, it is the most poles in a year since Michael Schumacher in 2001, with only six drivers in Formula One history claiming more - Nigel Mansell, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Mika Hakkinen, Jacques Villeneuve and Schumacher.

It was another dominant performance from Red Bull overall, with the team locking out the front row for the fourth time this season, and the eighth for Vettel and Webber as a pairing, with the duo split by just 0.074secs on this occasion.

On the second row of the grid will be Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton in his McLaren.

Hamilton, 28 points adrift in the standings and desperately needing a win to stay in the title, finished half a second down on Vettel.