It's 7 p.m. in France and 1 pm in Montreal. The sun will accompany the drivers during these qualifying. There are 27°C in the air and 44°C on the track. The rate of humidity is of 63%. The speed of the wind increased (5,4 m.s).

Lewis Hamilton signs the pole position into 1'17''886. He outstrips the exceptional Robert Kubiça and Kimi Räikkönen. Fernando Alonso and Nico Rosberg carry out the exploit of the day (fourth and fifth). The two men relegate Felipe Massa and his Ferrari to the sixth rank. Heikki Kovalainen and Nick Heidfeld are in withdrawal. They are respectively seventh and eighth. Rubens Barrichello is ninth. His team chose not to make him turn in “Q3” to preserve the gasoline. Mark Webber closes the walk of this signal 10. The “Q2” sees the elimination of five pilots. Timo Glock is eleventh. German took the ascending one on his team-mate. He'll have at his sides Kazuki Nakajima. David Coulthard is classified thirteenth. Jarno Trulli must be satisfied fourteenth places. Italian is in great difficulty. Nelsinho Piquet was described as accuracy in this session. Without surprise, he cannot claim with the “Super-pole”. The Brazilian one fails in fifteenth position. At the conclusion of the first part, the eighth, ninth and tenth lines of the starting grid take shape finally. Sébastien Bourdais signs the sixteenth time. Adrian Sutil, seventeenth, outstrips his team-mate. Jenson Button is nineteenth. The British encountered some technical problems. Sebastian Vettel didn't take part at the qualifying. His team didn't have time to repair his car. German will leave last.

To note : Jarno Trulli made a slew-round in the S of Senna in “Q1”. He won't have more lucky in the second part… 13:31, Fernando Alonso leaves the track to the same bend. At the end of “the Q2”, Jarno Trulli left to the fault… 13h43, Mark Webber is with the stop in sector 2. He typed the wall. He must give up the “Q3”.