1 Leclerc Beats Vettel and Both Mercedes to Bahrain 2019 Pole Charles Leclerc beat a four-time champion team-mate and both Mercedes to his first pole, and the lap sheet says he did it in the last five corners, not the long straights. Qualifying Bahrain 30 Mar 2019 4 MIN 2 Italian GP 2018: Raikkonen Beats Vettel to Pole by 0.161s Vettel led every session all weekend and looked to have delivered Ferrari's home pole with his final lap, but it was Kimi Raikkonen, running in his slipstream, who stole it from him in the last seconds. Qualifying 1 Sep 2018 5 MIN 3 German GP 2018: Vettel Takes Record Pole, Hamilton 14th Sebastian Vettel tore up his own history at Hockenheim with a track-record pole in front of a flag-waving home crowd, but the number that will actually shape Sunday is the P14 next to his title rival's name. Qualifying 21 Jul 2018 5 MIN 4 Chinese GP 2018: Vettel Beats Raikkonen to Pole by 0.087s Raikkonen had the faster car through two of the lap's three sectors, yet it was Vettel who found the extra tenths where it mattered and took Ferrari's first Shanghai pole in club history. Qualifying 14 Apr 2018 4 MIN