Lewis Hamilton snatches the pole from Sebastian Vettel in the dying moments of Q3.
Everything was set for an exciting qualifying session this afternoon and it was the Mercedes boys who found a lot of pace in their cars and managed to take the fight to Red Bull.
Romain Grosjean did a fantastic job for Lotus as he managed to qualify third just ahead of Nico Rosberg while Alonso had to settle for fifth keeping himself in front of Kimi Raikkonen.
But it was Mark Webber who suffered the worse qualifying session after his KERS failed and the team was unable to fix it in time.
| Pos. | Drivers | Teams | Time | Laps |
| 01. |  Lewis Hamilton |
Mercedes AMG Petronas | 1:19.388 | 15 |
| 02. |  Sebastian Vettel |
Red Bull Racing | 1:19.426 | 12 |
| 03. |  Romain Grosjean |
Lotus F1 | 1:19.595 | 15 |
| 04. | Nico Rosberg |
Mercedes AMG Petronas | 1:19.720 | 16 |
| 05. |  Fernando Alonso |
Scuderia Ferrari | 1:19.791 | 15 |
| 06. |  Kimi Raikkonen |
Lotus F1 | 1:19.851 | 17 |
| 07. |  Felipe Massa |
Scuderia Ferrari | 1:19.929 | 15 |
| 08. |  Daniel Ricciardo |
Scuderia Toro Rosso | 1:20.641 | 14 |
| 09. |  Sergio Perez |
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | 1:22.398 | 16 |
| 10. | Mark Webber |
Red Bull Racing | no time | 13 |
| 11. | Adrian Sutil |
Sahara Force India | 1:20.569 | 17 |
| 12. | Nico Hulkenberg |
Sauber F1 | 1:20.580 | 13 |
| 13. | Jenson Button |
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes | 1:20.777 | 10 |
| 14. | Jean-Eric Vergne |
Scuderia Toro Rosso | 1:21.029 | 12 |
| 15. |  Pastor Maldonado |
Williams F1 | 1:21.133 | 15 |
| 16. | Valtteri Bottas |
Williams F1 | 1:21.219 | 13 |
| 17. | Esteban Gutiérrez |
Sauber F1 | 1:21.724 | 11 |
| 18. | Paul di Resta |
Sahara Force India | 1:22.043 | 11 |
| 19. | Charles Pic |
Caterham F1 Team | 1:23.007 | 8 |
| 20. |  Giedo van der Garde |
Caterham F1 Team | 1:23.333 | 7 |
| 21. | Jules Bianchi |
Marussia F1 | 1:23.787 | 8 |
| 22. | Max Chilton |
Marussia F1 | 1:23.997 | 8 |
| Q1 107% Time: | 1:25.974 | |||
