
The Ferrari pilot Felipe Mass won the first starting position in the qualification of the Bahrain Grand Prix. In the third segment, the Brazilian drove a circle in 1 min. 32.652 sec., Having ahead of Lewis Hamilton on McLaren for 3 tenths of a second. The third place was received by the second pilot of the "Skuderia" Kimi Raikkonen, on the same line with which Fernando Alonso will start.
And this time there were no surprises in qualifications. The pilots “Ferrari” and “McLaren” again played the pole, and again, as in Malaysia, the mass was excelled, and McLaren was behind him again, but this time it was Hamilton, not Alonso, who would start from the 4th place in a row with the district.
The third largest team again turned out to be the BMW-Zauber-Heidfeld and Kubitsa took the 5th and 6th positions, respectively. Successfully, in comparison with the previous qualifications, Jankarlo Physicelle spoke. The Italian put his “Renault” on the 7th line of the starting protocol, on 5 hundredth ahead of Mark Webber on Red Bull.
The 5th row of the starting field was occupied by Yarno Truly on Toyota and Nico Rosberg at Williams.
In the arrangement of the rest of the pilots, Anthony Davidson on Super Aguri stands out. The Briton took 13th place, ahead of, including both pilots of the senior team of Honda. The qualifications for David Kulthard were unsuccessful. The Scottish veteran took the penultimate place, but this was the fault of this with the gearbox, reports Ren-TV.com .