Rosberg Thrashes Hamilton for USGP Pole

After his teammate dominated each practice session, Nico Rosberg stepped up when it mattered most and won pole position for the United States Grand Prix, his ninth pole position of the 2014 season. The German won the pole with a lap of 1:36.067 seconds. Lewis Hamilton fell 0.376 seconds shy of pole position and the championship leader will have to start on the outside of row one for tomorrow's race. This is the tenth time Mercedes has swept the front row.

Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa made it an all-Williams row two. The Finn was 0.839 seconds back with Massa trailing by 1.138 seconds. The third and final driver still mathematically eligible for the world championship, Daniel Ricciardo will start fifth with two-time world champion Fernando Alonso join him on row three.

Jenson Button and Kevin Magnussen make it an all-McLaren row four with the Brit holding off his Danish teammate by 0.051 seconds. Button will have to drop five positions to twelfth due to a gear box change. Kimi Räikkönen will start ninth and the Sauber-Ferrari of Adrain Sutil rounded out the top ten. It is the team's first appearance in Q3 all season. Sauber has yet to score a championship point this season.

Because Caterham and Marussia could not make it to Austin, only four cars were eliminated from Q1 and Q2. Pastor Maldonado missed making Q3 by 0.089 and will start eleventh tomorrow. The Force Indias of Sergio Pérez and Nico Hülkenberg ended up twelfth and thirteenth respectively. Daniil Kvyat was fourteenth but the Russian will drop to last on the grid after changing to his seventh power unit of the season.

Jean-Éric Vergne failed to make it out of Q1 and qualified fifteenth. He was three-tenths quicker than Esteban Gutiérrez in sixteenth. Sebastian Vettel did run a lap in Q1 and it was good enough for seventeenth, however he will still likely start from the pit lane. Romain Grosjean was the slowest qualifier with a 1:39.679 in Q3, 2.483 seconds slower than the fastest lap from Q1 run by Hamilton.

NBCSN will have pre-race coverage for the 2014 United States Grand Prix at 2:00 p.m. ET tomorrow. NBC's pre-rac coverage will begin at 2:30 p.m. ET with the United States Grand Prix set to begin at 3:00 p.m. ET.