With the battle between Red Bull and McLaren dominating the headlines, Ferrari were able to just go about their business and sneak into second and third on the grid. The main drama came from the back of the pack as Hispania brought Senna back but this time dropped Chandhok for Yamamoto, Virgin's Timo Glock and Force India's Adrian Sutil would be demoted five places for changing their gear-box. However both Virgin's and Force India's day would soon be capped off with dismal events in Q1; Virgin's Di Grassi couldn't even post a lap time and therefore had to automatically start 24th on the grid and Forci India's Luizzi crashed during a hot lap which caused Q1 to be postponed for quarter of an hour. When Q1 finally restarted we already knew who would be the casualties: the three new constructors and now Luizzi, all that was left to be decided was where they would finish. With Di Grassi 24th, Yamamoto finished 23rd behind Liuzzi and Hispania's Senna but the latter three would all be promoted as Glock finished 20th. The two Lotus cars finished the casualties off for Q1 as Trulli finished 18th ahead of Kovalainen. The fastest in Q1 was Fernando Alonso proving that Ferrari were going to have a say in the overall race.
Q2 saw the Toro Rossos finish 16th and 17th with Alguesuari just finishing ahead of Buemi. Sauber couldn't perform as well as they did in the last race as De La Rosa finished 15th, however they would be promoted as Sutil finished 14th and was therefore demoted to 19th. The big exit of Q2 came from Schumacher as he failed to perform on his home coming as finished 11th, ahead of Sauber's Kobayashi and Renault's Petrov. Again Alonso found himself as the fastest in Q2 just pushing his potential pole campaign just a little further.
Again Q3 would see the top six drivers battle it out for the top six places with Kubica, Barrichello, Rosberg and Hulkenburg battling out 7-10 and they would finish in that order. McLaren ultimately lost the qualifying battle as Hamilton finished 6th and Button just ahead of him in 5th. Webber looked largely off the pace in qualifying and that saw him finish fourth behind the two Ferraris and his team-mate. Massa would finish third which left Alonso and Vettel to battle it out for pole. It was to be the German to grab pole on his home race to get his third consecutive pole and his sixth pole overall.
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