Update before the start
There have been some changes on the grid, so I thought I would mention them before the race starts.
Giancarlo Fisichella has lost five places on the grid due to a breach of article 31.7 of the FIA Sporting code. He was judged to have impeded Sakon Yamamoto in the first phase of qualifying.
Then we have the Alonso / Hamilton incident. The Stewards have decided that Alonso unnecessarily impeded Hamilton and so Alonso has a 5 place drop on the grid as well.
1 Hamilton McLaren
2 Heidfeld BMW
3 Raikkonen Ferrari
4 Rosberg WilliamsF1
5 R Schumacher Toyota
6 Alonso McLaren
7 Kubica BMW
8 Trulli Toyota
9 Webber Red Bull
10 Coulthard Red Bull
11 Kovalainen Renault
12 Wurz WilliamsF1
13 Fisichella Renault
14 Massa Ferrari
15 Davidson Super Aguri
16 Liuzzi Toro Rosso
17 Button Honda
18 Barrichello Honda
19 Sato Super Aguri
20 Vettel Toro Rosso
21 Sutil Spyker
22 Yamamoto Spyker
Massa Makes Pole
Felipe Massa will take the start for the first time from the front of the grid.
The first row is an all Ferrari affair, with Ross Brawn admitting that Schumacher took the safe option after ruining his first high speed run with a mistake at the first corner.
Behind the Ferrari's are the two Renault's, showing perhaps that the short break we have had has given them time to claw back some of the mass damper performance they will loose.
The BMW of Heidfeld showed a decent pace, as did Ralph's Toyota (he starts 15'th after an engine change penalty), with the McLarens either looking slow, or heavy, tomorrow will tell.
Kubica again showed pace, and Webber showed he is a good driver by getting the slow looking Williams through to the last 10.
Session three times
1. MASSA Ferrari 1m26.907s
2. M.SCHUMACHER Ferrari 1m27.284s
3. ALONSO Renault 1m27.321s
4. FISICHELLA Renault 1m27.564s
5. HEIDFELD BMW 1m27.785s
6. BUTTON Honda 1m27.790s
7. RAIKKONEN McLaren 1m27.866s
8. KUBICA BMW 1m28.167s
9. WEBBER Williams 1m29.436s
10. KLIEN Red Bull
11. DE LA ROSA McLaren
12. TRULLI Toyota
13. BARRICHELLO Honda
14. ROSBERG Williams
15. R.SCHUMACHER Toyota*
16. COULTHARD Red Bull
17. SPEED Toro Rosso
18. LIUZZI Toro Rosso
19. MONTEIRO Midland
20. YAMAMOTO Super Aguri
21. SATO Super Aguri
22. ALBERS Midland*
* demoted 10 places for engine change
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