Jenson Button takes pole position!

NEW DELHI: The initial drama is over and the question of who stands where has been put to rest. It's been an amazing qualifying session at Melbourne with some unpredictable results.
If there ever was a fairy tale start to an F1 season, this has got to be it - this definitely out-does Hamilton's maiden victory back in 2007! Brawn GP was a team that some said wouldn't find a place on the F1 grid in 2009.Well, they made it and how!
On the front row in Melbourne on Race Day will be the BGP001 of pole sitter Jenson Button and right beside him will be team mate Rubens Barrichello.
They may not be pretty cars to look at owing to the new regulations, but the Brackley outfit has proved that Brawn precedes beauty! Ok, enough of poor wisecracks!
If Q1 and Q2 were anything to go by, the first row of the grid was always going to be a two car battle between the Brawn GP team mates and it was - with Button taking pole in the final stages setting a time of 1m 26.202s.
Barrichello set a time of 1m 26.505s. Sebastian Vettel put his Red Bull RB5 on third place with a lap of 1m26.830s which was enough to keep Kubica's non-KERS BMW Sauber out of the top three.
Nico Rosberg, who dominated the practice sessions all weekend could manage only fifth place with Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli's Toyotas sandwiching seventh placed Felipe Massa's lead Ferrari. Kimi Raikkonen and local hero Mark Webber completed the top ten.
Qualifying on Saturday in fact provided quite some surprises as well. As many as four teams had both their cars out by the end of Q2 - including Renault and McLaren.
Kovalainen tried and tried but just couldn't go fast enough to get into Q1, and Lewis Hamilton was out of his car without putting down an official time in the second session.
Apparently his McLaren MP4-24 lost all drive at the end of his first flying lap. Both Force India and Toro Rosso cars failed to make it past Q3.
The start into the first corner in Australia on Sunday will be quite a sight - considering that the new cars have really wide front wings which the drivers can't even see the ends of when driving.
The two Ferraris are the only cars in the top ten running KERS and how they use that additional boost to their advantage to gain a few places off the start line is yet to be seen.
It may seem like a Brawn GP washout for the Australian GP for now, but race conditions are all completely different. Only time will tell how this goes down! Stay tuned to all the Sunday live action on Times of India Racing at 11.30 a.m. IST!