The qualifying begin under a covered sky. There are 20°C in the air and 27°C on the track. The rate of humidity fell (45 %). The wind speed is very impressive (7 m.s).

Heikki Kovalainen signs first pole of his career (1'21"049). Mark Webber is the exceptional second. Kimi Räikkönen completes the top 3. Lewis Hamilton is the fourth. Nick Heidfeld, fifth, outstrips Fernando Alonso and Nelsinho Piquet. The Brazilian realizes, on Saturday, his most beautiful qualifying session of the season. Sebastian Vettel hoists his Toro Rosso in the eighth rank. Felipe Massa is only ninth. Robert Kubiça is tenth. Polish was handicaped by a problem of suspension. 1:43 pm, five drivers see each other private of "Super-pole". David Coulthard is eleventh. On Sunday, he'll have beside him Timo Glock. Sebastien Bourdais occupies the thirteenth position. Jarno Trulli is fourteenth. He's followed by Kazuki Nakajima. Lewis Hamilton took control of this "Q2" in 1'19"537. After twenty minutes, we know the eighth, ninth and tenth lines of the starting grid. Rubens Barrichello is sixteenth. Jenson Button is classified seventeenth. Nico Rosberg fails on the eighteenth place. German was surprised by the arrival of the rain. Force India drivers close the walking. Let us note that Heikki Kovalainen signed the best time in the first part (1'19"957).