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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 500952" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/788/6489/" target="_blank">Official Qualifying Classification</a> Ferrari hit back on Saturday with a front row lock out, Felipe Massa (in pole) qualifying nearly a second faster than Lewis Hamilton. Championship leader Raikkonen is 2nd on the grid. The first and second session were less dramatic this morning than last week. Williams were the only casualities - Nakajima eliminated in Q1 (the Jap is docked 10 grid places already), Rosberg going in Q2. Alonso just survived for the final 10, but Button and Coulthard could only manage 11th and 12th. It was in the business end of qualifying that Ferrari shone in the Kuala Lumpur sun. McLaren were simply no match for the reds, and although it is suspected that they are running a different fuel strategy, the sheer ease with which Ferrari set their times suggests the Italians have the upper-hand. However, that was not the end of the story. During the end of the session, Fernando Alonso and Nick Heidfeld were on their final flying laps as almost everyone else was coming in slowly. Unfortunately for Heidfeld, he had his lap horribly disrupted by the cruising Hamilton and Kovalainen, and the German had to zig-zag to avoid them. Following a stewards investigation into the incident, both Kovalainen and Hamilton have been pushed back 5 grid places, and so the McLaren pair are 8th and 9th on the grid, having qualified in 3rd and 4th. This has pushed 5 drivers up the grid, in the following order: Trulli, Kubica, Heidfeld, Webber and Alonso. The other pilot to make the final session, Timo Glock, is uneffected by the penalty and remains 10th. *** Please be aware that for the purposes of SupaLiga and Pure Fantasy F1 competition, only the official classification is considered for the qualifying predictions bonus points. Any following penalty, such as those given to McLaren, do not count.</blockquote>

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