Championship leader Lewis Hamilton will start the Japanese Grand Prix from exactly the place he wanted after he secured pole position in style for McLaren at Fuji Speedway on Saturday afternoon.

Having bided his time in Q1 and Q2, with second and third-fastest times respectively, he played second fiddle to Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen during the first runs in Q3 before striking with a lap of 1m 18.404s to deprive the Finn. Raikkonen had to be content with second place after lapping in 1m 18.644s.

Felipe Massa seemed set for third place in the second Ferrari until last-minute improvements from Renault’s Fernando Alonso and McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen left him only fifth in the line-up. Alonso banged in 1m 18.852s, but was beaten to third by Kovalainen’s 1m 18.821s. Massa’s best was 1m 18.874s. Nobody can say the times in Formula One at present are not exquisitely close.

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FIA post-qualifying press conference - Japan

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