We had some dry track at the start of the qualifying session and after the Q1 was over the rain came in a quite heavily fashion.
In Q1 were kicked out the usual suspects HRT, Marussia, Caterham and Jean-Eric Vergne for Scuderia Toro Rosso. Q2 was a completely wet one with the best times set on intermediate tyres in the first laps.
Q3 was a question of who will run most in the full wet Pirelli tyres and this point Raikkonen and Alonso decided to enter and change to brand new tyres while they were followed shortly by Schumacher and the Red Bulls a strategy that worked great for the Scuderia and Alonso takes the pole once more in wet conditions.
| Pos. | Drivers | Teams | Time | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01. |  Fernando Alonso |
Scuderia Ferrari | 1:40.621 | 25 |
| 02. |  Sebastian Vettel |
Red Bull Racing | 1:41.026 | 23 |
| 03. |  Mark Webber* |
Red Bull Racing | 1:41.496 | 22 |
| 04. | Michael Schumacher |
Mercedes AMG Petronas | 1:42.459 | 23 |
| 05. | Nico Hulkenberg |
Sahara Force India | 1:43.501 | 24 |
| 06. |  Pastor Maldonado |
Williams F1 | 1:43.950 | 24 |
| 07. |  Jenson Button |
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | 1:44.113 | 25 |
| 08. | Lewis Hamilton |
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | 1:44.186 | 25 |
| 09. | Paul di Resta |
Sahara Force India | 1:44.889 | 22 |
| 10. |  Kimi Raikkonen |
Lotus F1 | 1:45.811 | 18 |
| 11. | Daniel Ricciardo |
Scuderia Toro Rosso | 1:57.009 | 15 |
| 12. |  Sergio Perez |
Sauber F1 | 1:57.071 | 17 |
| 13. |  Kamui Kobayashi |
Mercedes AMG Petronas | 1:57.108 | 16 |
| 14. |  Felipe Massa |
Scuderia Ferrari | 1:57.132 | 17 |
| 15. |  Romain Grosjean* |
Lotus F1 | 1:57.426 | 18 |
| 16. | Bruno Senna |
Williams F1 | 1:57.719 | 21 |
| 17. | Nico Rosberg* |
Mercedes AMG Petronas | 1:57.895 | 18 |
| 18. | Jean Eric Vergne |
Scuderia Toro Rosso | 1:48.044 | 9 |
| 19. | Heikki Kovalainen |
Caterham F1 Team | 1:49.027 | 8 |
| 20. |  Vitaly Petrov |
Caterham F1 Team | 1:49.477 | 9 |
| 21. | Charles Pic |
Marussia F1 | 1:51.618 | 12 |
| 22. | Timo Glock |
Marussia F1 | 1:52.742 | 11 |
| 23. | Pedro de la Rosa |
HRT F1 Team | 1:53.040 | 8 |
| 24. |  Narain Karthikeyan |
HRT F1 Team | 1:54.143 | 10 |
| 107% Time: | 1:20.991 | |||
| * Webber, Rosberg and Grosjean will lose five places due to gearbox changes | ||||
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