The Happiest Number 4

Ever seen someone be so happy to finish fourth in qualifying?

Fernando Alonso managed to stun Martin Brundle who had just declared on the BBC's broadcast that the best Ferrari could hope for was fifth, behind the Mclaren boys and of course the two Red Bulls. Alonso was so stoked that he ran up to pole sitter Mark Webber and hugged him enthusiastically producing one of the more amusing moments in recent GP memory, that look of "WTF???" on Webber's face was just priceless.



Races in Barcellona have been won by P1 for the last ten years, I guess we'll see how the tires DRS lotto will play out. I'm banking on a desperate move by Lewis "I got a chin strap beard now" Hamilton into turn 1 followed by a major crash... well one can always hope.

In any case, Hamilton will start with a flat-spotted front left and Vettel might or might not have KERS issues, there is some hope for a non boring Spanish GP!

Pos  Driver                Team                 Time            Gap   
 1.  Mark Webber           Red Bull-Renault     1m20.981s
 2.  Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault     1m21.181s   + 0.200
 3.  Lewis Hamilton        McLaren-Mercedes     1m21.961s   + 0.980
 4.  Fernando Alonso       Ferrari              1m21.964s   + 0.983
 5.  Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes     1m21.996s   + 1.015
 6.  Vitaly Petrov         Renault              1m22.471s   + 1.490
 7.  Nico Rosberg          Mercedes             1m22.599s   + 1.618
 8.  Felipe Massa          Ferrari              1m22.888s   + 1.907
 9.  Pastor Maldonado      Williams-Cosworth    1m22.952s   + 1.971
10.  Michael Schumacher    Mercedes
Q3 cut-off time: 1m23.026s                                   Gap **
11.  Sebastien Buemi       Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m23.231s   + 1.691
12.  Sergio Perez          Sauber-Ferrari       1m23.367s   + 1.827
13.  Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1m23.694s   + 2.154
14.  Kamui Kobayashi       Sauber-Ferrari       1m23.702s   + 2.162
15.  Heikki Kovalainen     Lotus-Renault        1m25.403s   + 3.863
16.  Paul di Resta         Force India-Mercede  1m26.126s   + 4.586
17.  Adrian Sutil          Force India-Mercede  1m26.571s   + 5.031
Q3 cut-off time: 1m25.874s                                    Gap *
18.  Jarno Trulli          Lotus-Renault        1m26.521s   + 3.561
19.  Rubens Barrichello    Williams-Cosworth    1m26.910s   + 3.950
20.  Timo Glock            Virgin-Cosworth      1m27.315s   + 4.355
21.  Tonio Liuzzi          HRT-Cosworth         1m27.809s   + 4.849
22.  Narain Karthikeyan    HRT-Cosworth         1m27.908s   + 4.948
23.  Jerome D'Ambrosio     Virgin-Cosworth      1m28.556s   + 5.596
24.  Nick Heidfeld         Renault              No time

107% time: 1m28.767s

* Gap to quickest in Q1

** Gap to quickest in Q2

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