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Lewis popped his McLaren onto the Pole position, but the surprise is who is in second.

We already know that Kimi is starting 16th, so it was expected that the second Ferrari would be lining up next to him. That did not occur though, and it was not Lewis’s team mate Heikki either.

Nope hat’s off to BMW Sauber and Robert Kubbica for their second spot start for the first race.

Other surprises are the Honda cars, both making it into a lot higher position than last year (11th and 13th),

Both of the Toyota’s made it through to the top 10 shoot out, as did Nico Rosberg and David Coulthard and big surpise Sebastian Vettel. Mark Webber held his bad luck at his home track, with what looked like a failure of a front brake pad or disk under braking into the fast turn 12.

We look forward to what will be a cracking race tomorrow.

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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