F1 rookie Di Resta's stunning eighth 16 | 04 | 2011

BATHGATE'S PAUL DI RESTA stole former Euro F3 team-mate Sebastian Vettel's thunder at the end of qualifying for tomorrow's Chinese Grand Prix. While world champ Vettel bagged his third-successive pole position of 2011 for Red Bull, Di Resta qualified his Force India an astonishing eighth; and all this on the day the Scot celebrated his 25th birthday.

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