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For the first time this year, Jenson Button has failed to qualify in the top five, the Briton’s next worse result from qualifying this year being a P5 in Shanghai. However, all is not lost for the Brawn pilot and although fuel weights are not known yet, you cannot completely rule the championship leader out of a race victory. However, the Red Bull pair look very good for a dominating race tomorrow, with Sebastian Vettel on pole and Mark Webber looking handy in P3. Continue Reading

With qualifying completed we now have the grid for tomorrow’s Turkish Grand Prix, held around the demanding Istanbul Park circuit. In the past, Felipe Massa has dominated, but with the shake-up to the general order this season, it is Sebastian Vettel who excited on Saturday and looks set to have a great race. Right behind the Red Bull pilot are both Brawn drivers, and with Jenson Button narrowly missing out on the pole, you cannot rule the Briton out. Rubens Barrichello also appeared to have a stellar lap in qualifying, although the car weights are yet to be published. Continue Reading

A great qualifying session has once again resulted in a Brawn driver at the front, and although Rubens Barrichello pushed hard during all three stages, it was Jenson Button who finally came out on top with a last gasp corker of a lap. Alongside the Briton is this season’s only other race winner so far, Sebastian Vettel, who will want to edge his RB5 ahead of the Brawn BGP 001 through the first corner. Rubens Barrichello and Felipe Massa make up the next row while Mark Webber and Timo Glock complete the third row. Continue Reading

After a great qualifying session earlier today, Jarno Trulli heads the pack as Toyota manage to lock-out the front row. Timo Glock has looked very racey this year and depending on fuel, the German will surely give his team mate a run for his money tomorrow afternoon. In third place the Shanghai winner rests, Sebastian Vettel eyeing up his second consecutive victory and once again looking to take points off Brawn who will line up on the grid in P4 and P6, Jenson Button getting the better of his team mate Rubens Barrichello. Continue Reading

With qualifying completed, we can now look at the completed grid for tomorrow’s Chinese Grand Prix. At the front we have a new face for this year; Sebastian Vettel taking the first non-Button pole of 2009 and the German’s career second. Confirming the pace of the Red Bull RB5 is team mate Mark Webber in third. Splitting the Milton Keynes team is surprisingly Fernando Alonso. The Brawns could do no better than fourth and fifth, with Rubens Barrichello out-qualifying Jenson button for the first time this year. Continue Reading

With qualifying completed, we now have the completed grid for tomorrow’s Malaysian Grand Prix. There are two penalties so far that have affected the order the cars will line up on the start/finish straight on Sunday, but Jenson Button’s pole is safe for now and the Briton will lead the pack when the lights go out at Sepang. Rubens Barrichello has been demoted five grid slots for changing his gear box out of sequence on Friday evening, and Sebastian Vettel has been sent back ten grid slots for failing to stop with a damaged car in Melbourne last weekend. Continue Reading

There have been a few penalties flying around since the end of qualifying earlier today, but currently this is how the grid stands. Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello of Brawn lock out the front row, with Sebastian Vettel and Robert Kubica close behind in the Red Bull and BMW respectively. Lewis Hamilton was given a five grid slot penalty after changing his gear box – the issue put him out of qualifying. Also receiving penalties were the Toyota team, the TF109 having a rear wing that was flexing too much. Trulli and Glock were sent to the back of the grid. Continue Reading

The first race of the season usually throws up some form of protest, or at minimum a bit of a sulk, but so far in Melbourne, the diffuser issue came to a head with no consequences as of yet and the Toyota drivers have been sent to the back of the grid. Williams have also protested the legality of the Ferrari and Red Bull Racing cars. The Toyota issue came about after a routine post-qualifying inspection of the cars, where it was discovered the rear wing mounts were in breach of the regulations. Continue Reading

With Felipe Massa on pole position for the Brazilian Grand Prix, the 2008 World Championship showdown is going to be an electrifying race, especially the run down to the first corner on the first lap. Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton share the second row and Jarno Trulli is a little out of place, alongside Massa at the front. Whatever happens though, Formula One will be crowning a new world champion tomorrow. Here’s a quick run down of the grid, which will be updated should any penalties get handed out. Continue Reading

Lewis Hamilton took his sixth pole of 2008 and will lead the pack off the grid for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix. This is Kimi Raikkonen’s first front row grid position since the French Grand Prix back in June. This is only the third time Kazuki Nakajima has out-qualified Nico Rosberg this year, the other times being Britain and Spain. It is the second time Scuderia Toro Rosso have got both drivers into the top-ten, and Nick Heidfeld has equalled his worse qualifying position of the season, sixteenth having been previously claimed by the BMW driver in Hungary. Continue Reading