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Red Bull Racing shrugged off the technical row that has so far cast a shadow over the British Grand Prix weekend by locking out the front row of the Silverstone grid.
But, for only the second time in nine races this season, Sebastian Vettel is not on pole as team-mate Mark Webber will instead lead away the field.
A light shower in the closing couple of minutes scuppered all hope of anybody dislodging the mighty Red Bull pairing from their lofty perch, although in truth it is unlikely they would have been headed anyway.
With reigning champion and runaway leader Vettel lining up second, it means he has now qualified on the front row for the last 14 races, just 10 behind the record set by Ayrton Senna over the 1988 and 1989 seasons.
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Formula 1: British Grand Prix - Race Line Up
Formula 1: Mark Webber Fastest in First Practice at Silverstone
Formula 1: British Grand Prix - First Practice Results
Formula 1: Felipe Massa Fastest in Second Practice at Silverstone
Formula 1: British Grand Prix - Second Practice Results
Formula 1: Sebastian Vettel Fastest in Final Practice at Silverstone
Formula 1: British Grand Prix - Final Practice Results
Behind the Red Bull pair were Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso and team-mate Felipe Massa, the Spaniard maintaining his record of out-qualifying the Brazilian at every race this season.
McLaren’s Jenson Button starts fifth, finishing narrowly ahead of Paul di Resta in sixth, who produced a brilliant performance for his best showing in his debut campaign with Force India. Daily Mail
Williams’ Pastor Maldonado also registered a best ever qualifying result in seventh, with Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi eighth and the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg in ninth.
Button’s McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton, however, will start down in 10th after struggling for pace in the third sector and only managing a best lap that was almost two seconds down on Webber’s benchmark.
Adrian Sutil lines up in 11th in his Force India after missing out at the end of the 15-minute Q2 by just 0.029s to Maldonado.
Behind the German comes Sergio Perez in his Sauber ahead of Michael Schumacher who starts 13th, the seven-time world champion’s second worst grid slot of the season.
Clearly compromised by the diffuser ban, in particular due to their radical mid-section exhaust, Renault pair Vitaly Petrov and Nick Heidfeld find themselves in 14th and 16th.
Williams’ Rubens Barrichello sits in between the Renault duo, whilst Heikki Kovalainen is 17th in his Lotus after escaping from Q1 for the third time in the last five races. SkySports
Neither of the Toro Rossos got through as the rain came when they were out on their warm-up lap on softs; Jaime Alguersuari was thus 18th on 1m 35.245s from Sebastien Buemi on 1m 35.749s.
Timo Glock was 20th on 1m 36.203s for Virgin, ahead of Jarno Trulli’s Lotus on 1m 36.456s.
Then came Jerome D’Ambrosio’s Virgin on 1m 37.154s, Tonio Liuzzi’s HRT on 1m 37.484s and rookie Daniel Ricciardo’s similar car on 1m 38.059s. The Australian will thus start his first Grand Prix in 24th place. Formula 1
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