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<b>HAMILTON ON POLE:</b> Nico Rosberg (right) will start the 2015 Bahrain GP in third place. <i>Image: AP / Kamran Jebreili</i>
<b>HAMILTON ON POLE:</b> Nico Rosberg (right) will start the 2015 Bahrain GP in third place. <i>Image: AP / Kamran Jebreili</i>

MANAMA, Bahrain - Too much forward thinking back-fired on Nico Rosberg when his Bahrain GP qualifying went "pear-shaped".

Rosberg: "It just went wrong because I was thinking about the race too much."

He qualified third with team mate Lewis Hamilton on pole for the fourth race in a row. Rosberg explained that he had wanted to go easy in the second phase of qualifying on the set of tyres he would be starting the race with.

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