Nico Rosberg ended Lewis Hamilton's pole position season monopoly on Saturday, beating his Mercedes teammate for first place on the grid at the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix.
Rosberg grabbed his 16th career pole in 1 minute 24.681 seconds for the 4.655km lap on the Circuit de Catalunya, 0.267 seconds ahead of Hamilton, with Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third.
Daniel Ricciardo managed tenth place in his Red Bull.
World champion Hamilton had taken pole in the first four races of the season and won three of them to lead the standings by 27 points from Rosberg with a further point to Vettel.
The pole sitter has won 18 of the 24 Barcelona races but Rosberg won only three races from the 11 poles he earned last year.
Hamilton, by contrast, has won nine of the 11 races he has started from the front since the beginning of the 2014 season.
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