At the time of the qualifications, the blue sky and the sun are of the party. Colors which aren't without reminding those of the flag of the Asturias, omnipresent in the stands of Barcelona. It makes 23°C in the air and 38°C on the track. The rate of humidity approaches the 33 %. The wind speed is relatively similar to that of this morning (1,5 m.s). Kimi Räikkönen extracts pole position in the last seconds in 1'21"813. The first line will be completed by the local champion, Fernando Alonso. Public Spanish is euphoric and greets the exploit of Renault driver. Felipe Massa is the third. Robert Kubiça invites himself in the top 4. Lewis Hamilton, fifth, outstrip his team-mate and an impressive Mark Webber. Jarno Trulli is eighth. Nick Heidfeld is shyly settled in the ninth rank. Nelsinho Piquet is tenth. For the first time of the season, Renault drivers are in "Q3". It's very positive for the team !… The second part of the session offers fifteen minutes to the drivers to reach in "Super-pole". Six of enter they will be pushed away... Rubens Barrichello fails near the top 10. Honda driver is eleventh. Kazuki Nakajima, twelfth, took the influence on his captain. Jenson Button is only thirteenth. Timo Glock is classified fourteenth. German is followed by his fellow countryman Nico Rosberg. Williams is extremely disappointing this afternoon. Sebastien Bourdais is sixteenth. The quadruple world champion of Champcar realized a very beautiful session of qualifying. Furthermore, he outstrips his team-mate " Bubi-Schumi ". At the conclusion of "Q1", the ninth, tenth and eleventh lines of the future starting grid are finally outlined. David Coulthard will dash of the seventeenth position tomorrow. The Scottish driver will have beside him Sebastian Vettel. Force India didn't succeed in filling its objective. Giancarlo Fisichella and his team-mate won't enter "Q2". They are respectively nineteenth and twentieth. Super Aguri drivers are last.

The landmarks of the session : In "Q1", Sebastien Bourdais and Heikki Kovalainen committed some inaccuracies. Lewis Hamilton made a big fault in the second part.