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Felipe Massa has secured pole position in a thrilling qualifying session for the Malaysian Grand Prix, and he did it with room to spare. He finished up almost half a second faster than his teammate Raikkonen so must surely be the lighter of the two red cars. It was a throughly convincing performance from Ferrari as they fended off McLaren comfortably where Kovalainen beat Hamilton for the first time. Hamilton ended the session in fourth, almost a full second behind pole-sitter Massa. McLaren had better hope that Massa is running VERY light for the first stint tomorrow.

The star of qualifying was undoubtedly Jarno Trulli. He finished top in the first session and will start the Grand Prix in a superb fifth place. The BMWs follow Trulli closely with Webber, Alonso and Glock rounding out the top ten.

The session ended dramatically with the unusual situation of Heidfeld, Trulli and Glock all on hot laps while the rest of the cars were chugging along trying to save fuel. Heidfeld in particular had difficulties on the approach to turn 4 having to weave his way through a gaggle of cars, certainly compromising his braking and corner entry. Some cars were off line and trying to stay out of the way but interestingly it was the two McLarens of Kovalainen and Hamilton who were virtually parked on the racing line on the way to the braking zone. I just wonder whether they could be in some serious trouble if BMW lodge a complaint for being blocked. It would certainly mix things up in terms of the race if that were to be the case, though it would hand the race on a plate to one or other of the Ferrari drivers.