Felipe Massa takes pole for the European GP

Felipe Massa took pole for the inaugural European Grand Prix at Valencia beating Lewis Hamilton and Robert Kubica who took third. The pole position puts Massa in a commanding position for the race tomorrow with Valencia being notoriously difficult to overtake.

The real star of the session was Sebastian Vettel who was fastest of all in Q2 and took an amazing sixth place on the grid. Here are the starting positions for tomorrows race:

Pos  Driver        Team                 Q1        Q2        Q3       Laps
 1.  Massa         Ferrari              1:38.176  1:37.859  1:38.989  19
 2.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     1:38.464  1:37.954  1:39.199  15
 3.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           1:38.347  1:38.050  1:39.392  18
 4.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              1:38.703  1:38.229  1:39.488  21
 5.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes     1:38.656  1:38.120  1:39.937  18
 6.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1:38.141  1:37.842  1:40.142  19
 7.  Trulli        Toyota               1:37.948  1:37.928  1:40.309  21
 8.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           1:38.738  1:37.859  1:40.631  19
 9.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota      1:38.595  1:38.336  1:40.721  18
10.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1:38.622  1:38.417  1:40.750  18
11.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota      1:38.667  1:38.428            15
12.  Alonso        Renault              1:38.268  1:38.435            12
13.  Glock         Toyota               1:38.532  1:38.499            14
14.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     1:38.559  1:38.515            15
15.  Piquet        Renault              1:38.787  1:38.744            15
16.  Button        Honda                1:38.880                       6
17.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     1:39.235                       9
18.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari  1:39.268                      10
19.  Barrichello   Honda                1:39.811                      10
20.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari  1:39.943                       9

All timing unofficial