A very bizarre day at Spa

Well, well, well. Sunday morning may be a very interesting time for Vijay Mallya as his creditors could very easily be lining up to ask him for cash as one assume that the Indian squillionaire would probably like to see Giancarlo Fisichella start the Belgian GP from pole. The fact that he qualified in that position was strange indeed, but the while qualifying process was topsy-turvy as low temperatures messed up the calculations of all the big teams and those who often struggle found that their tyres were working. And thus it was that Fizzy landed his fourth pole position and cemented his claim to become the next Ferrari driver.

Second fastest was Jarno Trulli in the Toyota and third was Nick Heidfeld’s BMW Sauber. It was all most unlikely. If one had put some money on Fisichella being on pole, the odds were apparently 150-1.

The only name that made any real sense was Rubens Barrichello in fourth place. The Brazilian was ahead of Robert Kubica’s BMW, Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari, Timo Glock’s Toyota and the two Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Nico Rosberg was 10th.

Out in Q2 were some serious luminaries: Adrian Sutil was 11th ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button with Heikki Kovalainen in 15th.

Knocked out in Q1 were the two Toro Rossos of Sebastien Buemi and Jaime Alguersuari, the Williams of Kazuki Nakajima, Romain Grosjean’s Renault and Luca Badoer’s Ferrari, which ended the session in the gravel.

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