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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 511208" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/790/6501/" target="_blank">Official Qualifying Classification</a> Championship leader Kimi Raikkonen is on pole for the first time this season, but it is the return of Fernando Alonso to the front row that saw the Catalonian crowd cheering in Barcelona. Alonso took pole with his final effort in Q3, dropping then pole-sitter Felipe Massa down to 3rd. It was an amazing effort from the homeboy whose teammate Nelson Piquet could only qualify in 10th. However, Kimi came through moments later to record the final and fastest lap of the afternoon to top the timing list and the grid on Sunday. 5th on the grid is Lewis Hamilton. The Brit looked ragged, even going off-line in Q1, and Q3 proved little better. Fellow McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen is next to Lewis in row 3. Sneaking late on into 4th, and dropping the aforementioned Hamilton, is Robert Kubica. The Pole was a mere 700th of a second slower than Massa. Kubica's colleague Nick Heidfeld was unlucky to come out of the pits behind everyone in the final run out in Q3, thereby slowing down any push for a better time and resulting with, for him, an off-colour 9th place performance. Red Bull had the best and the worst of the afternoon, as Mark Webber qualified in 7th but David Coulthard was a victim of traffic and cool tyres in Q1. The Scot is 17th on the grid. And finally, qualifying specialist Jarno Trulli starts in 8th in Barca. Honda's Barrichello and Button are 11th and 13th respectively, whilst Nico Rosberg could do no better than 15th in the Williams.</blockquote>

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