Sebastian Vettel is refusing to believe his latest pole position will automatically lead to a third consecutive European Grand Prix victory.
After leading away the field in Canada a fortnight ago only to finish fourth, Vettel knows he cannot count any chickens just yet.
"Of course it would be nice to win, no doubt, but it's going to be a difficult race, difficult to predict," he said. "We have seen too much this year to sit here on Saturday and predict what's going to happen."
He added: "It's probably easier to guess the results of the football (in Euro 2012) than for tomorrow's race."
Unlike what we can expect from the race which has lacked thrills and spills in the past, qualifying at the Valencia Street Circuit was at least a spectacle.
Come the end of the second 15-minute session in particular, the top 13 were separated by a virtually unheard of 0.291 seconds, such were the tight margins between success and failure.
Remarkably, in the top-10 shoot-out, Vettel then blew his rivals away to finish 0.324secs clear of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.
It was Vettel's 33rd pole of his Formula One career, moving him up to third in the sport's all-time list alongside double world champion Jim Clark and four-times king Alain Prost.
It only leaves Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna ahead of the 24-year-old German, but with 68 and 65 apiece respectively, it means Vettel has some way to go before overhauling either.
Vettel added: "This year grid position is important, but maybe not as important as it used to be."
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