Malaysian GP Qualifying Result

With a later start compared to previous years, the rain didn’t show itself as the Qualifying session kicked off. A Qualifying full of drama as Button takes Pole again after Melbourne. Joining him on the front row is Toyota’s Jarno Trulli. Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Brawn GP’s Rubens Barrichello were third and fourth, but grid penalties for both mean Toyota’s Timo Glock and Williams’ Nico Rosberg will form row two.Ferrari’s Raikkonen could only land himself in the 9th position while Massa qualifying in 16th. McLaren was 13th and 14th respectively after the controversial Melbourne GP still haunting them.

Button is looking set to show that the win at Melbourne is no fluke while Ferrari and McLaren will be looking to reclaim the throne that Brawn GP so comfortably control this season. Will the April 14th hearing regarding the diffuser affect how the 3 teams running the controversial diffuser perform? It’s all to watch for tomorrow. The Full result of the Qualifying is as follow…

Qualifying Result

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time
1	J. Button	Brawn GP	1:35.181
2	J. Trulli	Toyota	1:35.273
3	S. Vettel	Red Bull	1:35.518
4	R. Barrichello	Brawn GP	1:35.651
5	T. Glock	Toyota	1:35.690
6	N. Rosberg	Williams	1:35.750
7	M. Webber	Red Bull	1:35.797
8	R. Kubica	BMW	1:36.106
9	K. Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:36.170
10	F. Alonso	Renault	1:37.659

11	N. Heidfeld	BMW	1:34.769
12	K. Nakajima	Williams	1:34.788
13	L. Hamilton	McLaren	1:34.905
14	H. Kovalainen	McLaren	1:34.924
15	S. Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:35.431

16	F. Massa	Ferrari	1:35.642
17	N. Piquet jr.	Renault	1:35.708
18	G. Fisichella	Force India F1	1:35.908
19	A. Sutil	Force India F1	1:35.951
20	S. Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:36.107