For Vettel the German Grand Prix will be the the sixth time in 11 races he has started on pole and the German, who is 24 points behind Hamilton with nine races to go, admitted this pole position had been hard work.

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"The consumer will have a very, very hard time figuring out if it's pole caught, " at a grocery store or restaurant.

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It is a very special moment first time you get the pole position or reach the podium in a hard fought race.

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"Color deficiency is way low on the totem pole of accessibility problems, but when doing the right thing isn't hard, you should at least take that into account, " says Mr. Baio.

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Starting on pole, Alonso protected his lead even after a pit stop on lap 16 but the hard tires on Lewis Hamilton's McLaren car set up a tussle for first place on lap 19.

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