Three Poles In Four For Hamilton

With the last four Pole sitters going on to claim victory in the Singapore GP, it may be vital that Lewis Hamilton has claimed his third Pole in four races. If Hamilton does go onto win tomorrow, he'll become the first double Pole winner after winning there three seasons ago.

Sebastian Vettel lit up the time sheets throughout the practice sessions but could only manage third place with Pastor Maldonado putting in another fantastic qualifying performance. Jenson Button suffered a few front lock-ups during the session and will start behind Vettel in fourth.

Championship leader, Fernando Alonso, will begin the race in fifth but it is unlikely to be too traumatic as the Spaniard has been relentless from the start so far this season. Paul Di Resta continues his good season with another good qualifying performance, putting his Force India into sixth ahead of Mark Webber.

Romain Grosjean returned to action with the fastest time in Q1, albeit on the super soft tyres, and managed to get himself into eighth. Mercedes are already playing a strategic game by deciding not to make Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg set a time in Q3 to allow them both to potentially start on the more durable soft tyres. Schumacher will begin the race ahead of his teammate and compatriot.

Q2 saw Grosjean hit the wall but was able to comeback to put himself into Q3. Bruno Senna wasn't so fortunate and he was unable to complete a time following his collision and will start 17th. Nico Hulkenberg was the one to miss out on Q3 by the smallest of margins and will start 11th.

Kimi Raikkonen had a fairly quiet session and could only manage 12th ahead of Felipe Massa who was also fairly quiet, despite winning this race four seasons ago. Sergio Perez was the better of the two disappointing Saubers, the Mexican would have tried to build on his second place in Monza but will begin tomorrow's race in 14th. The Toro Rossos will start side by side with Daniel Ricciardo out-qualifying Jean-Eric Vergne in 15th and 16th.

The big name to fall from Q1 was Kamui Kobayashi so he will have a tough race starting from 18th tomorrow. Vitaly Petrov managed to out-qualify Heikki Kovalainen in the Caterham battle on the tenth row of the grid. Timo Glock once again beat his teammate Charles Pin in the Marussia battle whilst Narain Karthikeyan managed to out-qualify Pedro De La Rosa for the second consecutive race on the back row.