Rosberg & Hamilton make it a Mercedes front row: Spanish Grand Prix (2013)

Maybe Lewis Hamilton wasn’t as daft as we all thought jumping ship from McLaren and heading off to Mercedes F1.

When we all thought the Mercedes F1 team didn’t have a chance of doing anything special in 2013, Hamilton and Rosberg have proved the 2013 car is a strong contender, and in final qualifying for tomorrow’s Spanish Grand Prix they’ve locked out the front row.

Hamilton’s team mate Rosberg beat him to pole position – his second pole in a row – with Red Bull’s Vettel having to settle for third place alongside Kimi Raikkonen’s Lotus.

Alonso could only mange fifth place in front of his home crowd, and he only managed that by the slimmest of margins – 0.001s – ahead of Massa in the second Ferrari, whoc starts sixth.

Behind the two Ferraris sit Grosjean in the second Lotus and Webber in the second Red Bull with Perez managing to squeeze his McLaren in to ninth place and Paul di Resta managing the last of the top ten placings with the Force India.

It was a sorry outing for McLaren’s Jenson Button – who only managed fourteenth place – and the two Williams finished their qualifying in the first session as they seemed unable to get round corners properly.

Whether we’ll see the two Mercedes performing in the race tomorrow as well as they have in qualifying is debatable, but both Rosberg and Hamilton are showing Mercedes has the makings of a title contender.

And now we’re back in Europe, you’ll be able to watch the race tomorrow live on the BBC as well as on Sky.

By Cars UK