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Felipe Massa

Felipe Massa in the Ferrari will start in pole position tomorrow for the first ever floodlit grand prix in Singapore followed by the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton in second place.

Hamilton had more than his share of trouble in the second qualifying session, aborting his first run due to running wide at the first corner and could only manage tenth on his second run.

The second Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen will start from third on the grid followed by Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber in fourth.

Heikki Kovalainen in the second McLaren is in fifth and should have been followed by Nick Heidfeld in sixth but he has since been penalised by stewards for impeding Rubens Barrichello in the Honda.  It happened in the first qualifying session when Barrichello caught up with Heidfeld as the BMW Sauber driver was entering the pits.  Barrichello was also fined €10,000 for not using the declaration zone when driving into the pits after being slowed down by Heidfeld.  Heidfeld will lose three grid places as a penalty and will start in ninth place.

Sebastian Vettel in the Toro Rosso will now start in sixth place ahead of Timo Glock in the Toyota and Williams driver Nico Rosberg in eighth.

The second Williams of Kazuki Nakajima will start in tenth place followed by Jarno Trulli in the second Toyota and Jenson Button for Honda.

Trulli, who had missed most of the first qualifying session after his big accident in practice went out and hit the barrier on his first flying lap and lost the nose cone.

Both Williams drivers got their cars into Q3 for the first time this season with Nakajima scoring his best qualifying result of his career so far.

Mark Webber in the Red Bull is in thirteenth place ahead of team-mate David Coulthard and the two Renault drivers, Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet in fifteenth and sixteenth places respectively.

Alonso’s Renault developed a fuel problem and stopped out on track before he could even set a time in Q2 leaving him way down the grid after an impressive weekend on track.

Sebastien Bourdais in the second Toro Rosso will start in seventeenth place followed by Rubens Barrichello in the Honda and the two Force India drivers, Adrian Sutil and Giancarlo Fisichella.

Here are the results;

Pos  Driver       Team                 Q1        Q2        Q3       Laps
 1.  Massa        Ferrari              1:44.519  1:44.014  1:44.801  16
 2.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes     1:44.501  1:44.932  1:45.465  14
 3.  Raikkonen    Ferrari              1:44.282  1:44.232  1:45.617  16
 4.  Kubica       BMW Sauber           1:44.740  1:44.519  1:45.779  18
 5.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes     1:44.311  1:44.207  1:45.873  19
 6.  Heidfeld     BMW Sauber           1:45.548  1:44.520  1:45.964  19
 7.  Vettel       Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1:45.042  1:44.261  1:46.244  15
 8.  Glock        Toyota               1:45.184  1:44.441  1:46.328  21
 9.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota      1:45.103  1:44.429  1:46.611  17
10.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota      1:45.127  1:44.826  1:47.547  20
11.  Trulli       Toyota               1:45.642  1:45.038            12
12.  Button       Honda                1:45.660  1:45.133            14
13.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault     1:45.493  1:45.212            12
14.  Coulthard    Red Bull-Renault     1:46.028  1:45.298            16
15.  Alonso       Renault              1:44.971                       6
16.  Piquet       Renault              1:46.037                       6
17.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1:46.389                       6
18.  Barrichello  Honda                1:46.583                       7
19.  Sutil        Force India-Ferrari  1:47.940                      10
20.  Fisichella   Force India-Ferrari  No time                        2