It's took five qualifying seesions but finally Vettel has been beaten to Pole position. Formula 1 is in Spain this weekend with the race taking place on the Catalunya track. Q1 saw a host of odd occurences which added a little spice to tomorrow's race. The six plus one scalp scenario had looked to have happened early as Nick Heidfeld was unable to participate due to his car catching fire in practice earlier today. That led to assume that the six bottom drivers would then just be competing for places 23-18, but we were wrong. D'Ambrosio was beaten by the two Hispanias with Liuzzi out-qualifying Karthikeyan into 21st. D'Ambrosio's teammate Glock finished 20th but the other 'scalp' saw Barrichello suffer gearbox problems and only qualified eighteenth, this meant that a Lotus would be heading to Q2. That Lotus was Kovalainen as Trulli managed seventeenth but the other shock of Q1 saw Michael Schumacher post the best time.
The new blood of Q2 was obviuosly expected to just be making up the numbers and finish seventeenth. But that wasn't the case as Kovalainen out-qualified both of the Force Indias and will start fifteenth in tomorrow's race, Di Resta out-qualified Sutil yet again in the Force India cars. The Saubers and the Toro Rossos are mixed together with Buemi and Alguersuari in eleventh and thriteenth, Perez and Kobayashi are in twelfth and fourteenth. No surprises that Vettel secured the fastest lap in Q2.
Q3 saw Michael Schumacher play the strategy game and decided not to post a time so that he would have an extra set of soft tyres for tomorrow's race, thus starting tenth. Maldonado was extremely impressive and quite a shock getting into Q3 and the Venezuelan will start ninth. Massa struggled throughout qualifying and will start eighth behind Rosberg. Petrov secured sixth behind the top five although really it was Red Bull follwed by the other three. Alonso splits the two McLarens with Hamilton in front of him and Button behind. This meant that Webber finally knocked Vettel off of Pole position and the man on Pole has won the Spanish grand prix for the last ten years.
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