yet again rain played it’s part for the malaysian qualies, and yet again we get a starting line up that’s been completely turned on its head. Red Bull aside of course.

What a brave decision by Mark to chance it on inters. Looking at the spray, it seemed too wet for the soft-core wet tyres, but Webber found the drier tram lines made by the other cars and nailed it!

Awesome stuff indeed.

However, this makes tomorrows race hugely anticipated. With good drivers at the top and world champions at the back, chance of more rain, who cannot be excited?! It will be very interesting to see the the big boys at the back trying to make their way to the front…ish. Mclarens huge top speed, Ferrari’s brilliant car top front to back, man this could be magic! Add to the real possibility of rain at some point and it really could be anybodies race.

Though just goes to show that you should never chance to rain here. If it’s not flooding the track at the start of the qualifying, then it means it will be later! How could you risk waiting??!! Get out there, get a time in to get you into the second session, then see what happens. Why is it so many bad choices are being made by Mclaren? Since Lewis joined they have been some monumentally bad moves being made, and now Ferrari dropped a clanger. What’s going on in these teams?

Anyways, who cares, as it’s made for a great race and considering the depths F1 has plunged to, it needs every bit of excitement it can get.

Fernando Alonso says his position at the bottom of the grid for the Malaysian Grand Prix is not too important as he expects a rather chaotic race tomorrow.

The Ferrari driver was knocked out in Q1 on Saturday after his team decided to wait for the track to dry up before setting a lap time.

The decision proved to be a mistake which cost the Italian team dear, as more rain hit the circuit and neither Alonso not team-mate Felipe Massa could set a time good enough to go into Q2.

Alonso will start the race from 19th, with Massa in 21st.

The Spaniard, however, believes his position is not too significant, as he reckons more rain on Sunday will make the race a lottery.

“We had a forecast of no rain for Q1 so we waited a few minutes to go out, thinking that the track would dry up and then it started to rain more and nobody could improve their times and we were out,” he told Spanish television.

“Fortunately the race is tomorrow, not today, and tomorrow a lot of things will happen, so the starting position is just an anecdote.”

Alonso admitted he is expecting heavy rain again tomorrow.

“Yeah, and especially here, with this race schedule at the the time when it always rains, tomorrow will be a race with a lot of changes, so all we need to do is give it all and try to recover a lot of positions,” he said.

He said, however, that he would prefer a dry race, despite rain likely to boost his chances of recovering to a good position.

“I never want rain because it’s not what everybody wants to see. When it rains, weird things happen and the fun turns into a lottery.”

Nico Hulkenberg hailed his qualifying performance as a breakthrough after reaching Q3 ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The Williams rookie will start the race from fifth position after having reached the final qualifying segment for the first time.

Hulkenberg also qualified two places ahead of team-mate Rubens Barrichello.

“Yeah, good success,” Hulkenberg told the BBC. “I mean finally a bit like a breakthrough. I’m obviously very happy even though I think it’s very tight – the guys in front, I could have had them.

“Not an ideal lap but it’s very difficult in these conditions anyway, but I’m quite happy where I am and happy for the team as well.”

The German admitted it will be a big day for him tomorrow, but he claimed he is ready to attack to get a good result.

“It is, but I’ll just get out there and get my job done, at least try to maintain my position and in the best case gain places. I’ll not be shy.”

Nico Rosberg predicted an interrupted Malaysian Grand Prix if the weather forecasts for tomorrow prove correct, as he said conditions in Q3 were impossible today.

Qualifying at Sepang was wet throughout, with a particularly heavy downpour forcing a 20 minute stoppage in the final segment.

“It is really difficult, even today in Q3 it was just much too much water,” said Rosberg, “so we have to wait and see tomorrow. I expect a really difficult race in general with red flags.

“I am quite confident I can make it through to the end and get a good result – if it’s dry, okay, and if it’s wet we should be good.”

Although Rosberg qualified on the front row, he was 1.3 seconds down on Mark Webber, the only man to use intermediates rather than wet tyres in Q3. However Rosberg was completely satisfied with his tyre choice.

“I felt good and felt I had a good lap in, then the tyres started to degrade,” he said.

“I saw Mark in front on inters and was pretty sure I was right on tyres, but thankfully it wasn’t the wrong decision to be on full wets either.”

The duo waited to go out and set a time, hoping that conditions would improve after heavy rain had hit the track.

However, conditions only worsened and by the time they set a timed lap, the circuit was too wet to reach Q2.

Hamilton admitted McLaren’s had been the wrong call.

“I think we started a bit too late, but we went out at a similar times to all the other top teams, but it was just unlucky,” he said.

“It’s one of those things. We had been fastest all weekend and then it’s just so my luck, but what can you do? You just have to shrug it off and tomorrow I’ll race my heart out again.”

He added: “It was one of those days. It’s been a good weekend so far, but we didn’t expect it to rain anymore and it got wetter and wetter and couldn’t get the time, so. Hard work tomorrow, for sure but I’ll do my best.”

Hamilton will start from 20th position, three places behind Button, whose session ended when he lost control of his car and got stuck in the gravel.

“We read it wrong, basically,” Button said. “We thought nothing else was coming so we waited and it was obviously the wrong thing to do.

“My first lap on inters felt okay. It was quite wet but it felt okay. I just aquaplaned off, really. I couldn’t do anything about it. I was stuck in the gravel. I hope I haven’t damaged anything because I was stuck in the gravel with the engine running for quite a long time hoping to get pulled out, but that wasn’t the case.

“Very disappointing, and a very strange session with both McLarens out and both Ferraris out.”

The world champion at lest found some consolation in the fact that both Hamilton and the Ferrari drivers had qualified behind him.

“On the way back you feel pretty awful having gone off the circuit, but I’m in front of my championship rivals. I suppose that’s the best way of looking at it. But I’m behind all other rivals which is a tough one. We made the wrong call and paid for it. Hopefully we’ll make up for it tomorrow.”

Source: Autosport.com