Trulli leads Toyota front row lock-out in Bahrain

F1 Grand Prix, GP Bahrain, Bahrain International Circuit

Toyota have pulled an incredible achievement in qualifying by putting both their cars on the front row for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Jarno Trulli steadily progress in qualifying to get on pole position, while Timo Glock completes the Japanese party. Jenson Button is third.

This Bahraini qualifying is taking place under sunny skies, and at 38°C, a fairly regular temperature for Bahrain.

Fisichella is the first out on track, followed by his teammate. The Force India cars are equipped with several aerodynamic updates and the team hope to get off the last places of the grid.

8 minutes later, Trulli is on top, ahead of Vettel and Rosberg. The Red Bulls and Brawns are slightly lower ranked as they are currently running on the prime tyres, as well as Kovalainen. The latter's teammate and most of the other drivers immediately choose the softer option tyre.

2 minutes from the end of Q1, both Toyota's put themselves at the front with the softer tyre. Kubica at the same time is on fire in the pitlane as the team spoilt a bit of fuel on his car. Fortunately for the Pole, he is able to continue without problems and in fact manages to get through to Q2.

Vettel then puts in the fast lap, 0.099s faster than the Toyota of Jarno Trulli. Hamilton, Button and Barrichello follow behind them in the rank. At the end Alonso just manages to get through despite trouble with slower cars, while Mark Webber is even less fortunate and can't manage to improve from his 19th position.

On tomorrow's grid, Sutil will be in 16th place, followed by Buemi, Fisichella, Webber and Bourdais.

With 5 cars less, the drivers still in the game should have a little less trouble to find a gap and complete a good lap. Vettel quickly sets the pace again and looks like he won't have to come out a second time. His 1:32.474 looks to be enough. Kimi Raikkonen is second fastest, followed by Alonso, Trulli, Massa and Glock.

As the session comes to an end, many have improved but none have been able to improve on Vettel. Glock got second, ahead of teammate Trulli and Raikonen. The Brawns are 5th and 6th while Alonso didn't put in another lap and is 7th fastest.

Out and from 11th place down to 15th are therefore Kovalainen, Nakajima, Kubica, Heidfeld and Piquet.

9 minutes before the end of Q3, Timo Glock is the first man on track. Soon he is followed by Jenson Button and Jarno Trulli. It are actually also the Toyota's that set the initial pace with both cars 0.3s ahead of the rest. After everyone completed their first laps, Button is third, Vettel 4th and Barrichllo 5th. Alonso, Hamilton, Massa, Raikkonen and Rosberg follow in the ranking.

Jenson Button is first for his second attempt and puts himself on provisional pole, improving on Trulli by 0.25s. Hamilton then puts himself second. Glock then retakes fastest lap only to be improved by Trulli.