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maltatoday, SUNDAY, 2 NOVEMBER 2014 Sport 52 FORMULA 1 +356 7942 8152 | +356 9982 0266 | +356 7947 8478 We invite architects and property developers to contact us for a demonstration of the unique features of our 3-metre arm trencher, which ensures efficient and effective deployment whilst delivering additional safety and decreased vibration to neighbouring properties. Well and Swimming Pool Excavation Land Clearing Inert Waste Management Excavation Total Building Demolition Trenching Faceworks-The_architect-mag.indd 1 24/10/2014 15:17 Rosberg beats Hamilton to pole in Austin NICO Rosberg needs to win in the United States to reduce his 17-point deficit to world championship-lead- ing team mate Lewis Hamilton, and he got off to the best possible start on Saturday by taking a scintillating pole position - his ninth of the season. The German lapped some four- tenths of a second faster than Ham- ilton as Mercedes locked out the front row for the tenth time this year. Rosberg was faster than Hamilton on the medium tyres in Q1, but Ham- ilton set the ultimate pace with 1m 37.196s on the softs, from the Wil- liams duo of Felipe Massa and Valt- teri Bottas. This time only four cars would miss the cut in the absence of Caterham and Marussia, and they were Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso on 1m 39.250s, Esteban Gutierrez's Sau- ber on 1m 39.555s, Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull (saved, as intended, for its pit- lane start) on 1m 39.621s, and Romain Grosjean's Lotus on 1m 39.679s. The Frenchman just beat the chequered flag to get a final run in, but slid mo- mentarily off the road on his next lap, spoiling his chances. Q2 saw Sauber get a car through to Q3 for the first time this season as Adrian Sutil dragged his C33 round in 1m 38.378s. That left Pastor Mal- donado 11th for Lotus on 1m 38.467s ahead of the two Force Indias of Ser- gio Perez and Nico Hulkenberg on 1m 38.554s and 12m 38.598s respectively. Daniil Kvyat was 14th on 1m 38.699s, but takes a 10-place grid penalty after Toro Rosso elected to fit his car with a seventh engine of the season. He will thus start at the back of the grid. A point of interest from Q2 was that Hamilton reported vibrations after flat-spotting the set of softs on which he set his fastest time and must there- fore start the race on. The Briton, who subsequently bemoaned a locking left-front brake, ended up second fast- est after his only run whereas Rosberg went again and on another set of softs he banged in the fastest time of the weekend with 1m 36.290s - a full sec- ond quicker than his team mate… Q3 saw Rosberg pulverising every- one with a best lap of 1m 36.067s, as Hamilton was unable to improve his first-run time of 1m 36.443s. Behind them, Valtteri Bottas jumped ahead of Felipe Massa in their intra-Williams duel, with 1m 36.906s to 1m 37.205s, as Daniel Ricciardo put his Red Bull ahead of Fernando Alon- so's Ferrari with a lap of 1m 37.244s to the Spaniard's 1m 37.610s. Jenson Button headed McLaren partner Kevin Magnussen, with 1m 37.655s to 1m 37.706s, though the former drops five places for a gearbox change, with Kimi Raikkonen taking ninth on 1m 37.804s in the other Fer- rari. Sutil made it a good day for Sau- ber with the tenth-fastest time of 1m 38.810s. Thus the grid forms: Rosberg, Hamilton; Bottas, Massa; Ricciardo, Alonso; Magnussen, Raikkonen; Sutil, Maldonado; Perez, Button; Hulken- berg, Vergne; Gutierrez, Grosjean; Kvyat. Vettel will be starting from the pit lane after Red Bull elected to change his entire Renault power unit. Nico Rosberg (GER) Mercedes AMG F1 W05