BEIJING, April 26 -- Italian Jarno Trulli seized pole position for the Bahrain Grand Prix in Manama yesterday with Toyota teammate Timo Glock qualifying in second place. Trulli set a time of 1 minute, 33.431 seconds at the Sakhir circuit. It was Toyota's third pole in its eighth year in Formula One, and first for four years. Toyota, which has never won a race, filled the front row for the first time.

"It's really nice to be first and second, for the team, for Toyota," Trulli said. "What a great result."

Red Bull's young German Sebastian Vettel, winner in the wet in Shanghai last weekend, will start today's race in third place with championship leader Jenson Button alongside in his Mercedes-powered Brawn GP.

The pole was the fourth of Trulli's Formula One career and first since Indianapolis in 2005, a race he did not start and that turned into a six-car fiasco after problems with the Michelin tires.

Toyota has yet to win a race in 126 attempts since its debut in 2002 but, depending on the drivers' respective fuel levels, today could represent its best chance yet of ending that run.

The driver starting on pole position has won the last five Formula One grands prix.

McLaren's world champion Lewis Hamilton, whose team risks heavy sanctions at a hearing in Paris this week for lying to race stewards at the Australian season-opener, qualified a strong fifth.

Rubens Barrichello of Brawn GP will fill the third row in sixth place, with Renault's Fernando Alonso seventh.

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