This marks’s Webber’s fifth pole for 2010, with the accomplishment (1m45.778s) helped by the rain that made it impossible for other racers to close the gap he had built before this started.
The next car on the grid belongs to Lewis Hamilton, who managed to tackle the wet La Source (1m45.863s).
The second row of the grid will belong to Robert Kubica(1m46.100s) and Sebastian Vettel (1m46.127s), with both drivers setting their best times on their first runs.
Jenson Button (1m46.206s) proved to deal with the rain better than Felipe Massa (1m46.314s), with the two taking the 5th and the 6th places, respectively.
Rubens Barichello will celebrate his 300th grand prix starting from the 7th place(1m46.602s), sharing the fourth row with Adrian Sutil (1m46.659s). Nico Hulkenberg (1m47.053s) and Fernando Alonso (1m47.441s) come next. The latter paid the price for being the only front runner to use hard tires. He tried to improve subsequently, but had to deal with a damp La Source, posting a less than perfect time.
The Mercedes team, Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg, took the 11th and 12th places, respectively, with both drivers receiving a grid penalty.
The qualifying session was anything but calm. Q1 was a hazardous period, as Vitaly Petrov spun his Renault at the Turn 9 due to a high entry speed, hitting the inside barrier. This led to a red flag period that delayed things, allowing the rain to cover Rivage and Stavelot for the first flying lap.
This lead to Lucas di Grassi, Adrian Sutil and Jarno Trulli’s cars to go off at Stavelot, allowing McLaren’s Hamilton and Button to take the top places.
The track became dry in 10 minutes, with the Mercedes and Williams cars using slicks to go straight to top 5.
The same type of tires was used by Kamui Kobayashi and Pedro de la Rosa, who were not so lucky, spinning at Rivage and Stavelot, respectively.
Di Grassi and Petrov didn’t manage to finish subsequent to the incidents and were eliminated in Q1, just like Sakon Yamamoto, Bruno Senna and Jarno Trulli.
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