Sebastian Vettel has managed to do it again in a qualifying session that was extremely close. The weather was iffy throughout the session in Spa but Vettel was able to conquer the race track yet again. The resurgance of McLaren took a positive and negative as Hamilton kept up the pace and will start second, but a mix-up between Button and and his garage sees Button start in thirteenth place.
Mark Webber has been given a new contract by Red Bull, just in time for his birthday, and will start third. Massa out-qualified Alonso for only the third time this season as Alonso failed to get to grips with the Spa track, Massa will start fourth with Alonso eighth. Rosberg will start fifth as the positive for Mercedes but they, like McLaren, also face a negative. After poor qualifying in the last few races, Alguersuari put a Toro Rosso into sixth. The big news before the weekend was that Nick Heidfeld has been replaced by Bruno Senna, Heidfeld is seeking legal action but Senna managed to qualify in seventh. Perez and Senna's new team-mate Petrov complete the top ten.
Q2 saw Sutil suffer a crash which saw the session red flagged with just under seven minutes left. He was still managed to qualify in fifteenth as Kovalainen and Maldonado failed to beat his earlier time. Buemi and Kobayashi will start ahead of Button in eleventh and twelfth. Barrichello completes the line up in Q2 and starts fourteenth.
Q1 saw Schumacher crash early on, but the session didn't need to be red flagged as the car was far enough off track. This made it a little easier for everyone as they expected the usual six to fall. That wasn't to be the case and Di Resta was the second surprise faller at Q1 and will start eighteenth. Trulli starts nineteenth ahead of the two Virgin cars, Glock beating D'Ambrosio. Liuzzi again out-qualified Ricciardo into twenty-second.
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