Heidfeld and Alonso complain to stewards

Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso have complained to the race stewards after the qualifying session for the Malaysian Grand Prix. The duo encountered slowing cars on their final qualifying attempts. Heidfeld claims that he lost at least 0.2 seconds to avoid a collision with the slowing cars.

In an interview with ITV, Heidfeld said: "Q1 and Q2 went pretty smooth and then in Q3 most of the cars were already very, very slow when I was on my flying lap. They were just like parked on the circuit, I think it was both of the McLarens in front of Turn 4, being in the middle of the racing line. I could not be on the line I wanted, especially for braking. I have lost some time there, I think I lost two tenths, and if you look at the times they were very, very close.

"I would have been third, but what can you do now? Very clearly, it needs to be looked at, and I reported that on the radio. From my point of view it is not correct what they did."

Fernando Alonso who was behind Heidfeld suffered the same problems and went to visit the race stewards as well.