Toro Rosso narrowly missed out getting a car through to Q3 today in Korea but had to settle for eleventh and thirteenth on the grid for tomorrow’s race.

Sebastian Vettel seemed relieved to be reasonably close to the pace of McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix, rather than disappointed that Red Bull’s run of pole-positions had been broken.

Both Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez complained of sub-optimal set-ups as they qualified only fourteenth and seventeenth respectively for the Korean Grand Prix.

Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali used his post-qualifying interviews in Korea to pay tribute to colleague Pasquale Danza, who passed away today. During the qualifying session, Felipe Massa out-qualified Fernando Alonso had the Ferrari duo took fifth and sixth places on the grid for tomorrow’s Korean Grand Prix.

Rubens Barrichello suffered ignominy of crashing out of qualifying with the six drivers from the new team today in Korea as Williams suffered another poor qualifying session.

Lewis Hamilton took pole position in Korea with Sebastian Vettel second and Jenson Button third.

There were contrasting fortunes between the Renault drivers during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix today as Vitaly Petrov took ninth place on the Yeongam grid but Bruno Senna could manage only P15.

Daniel Ricciardo failed to set a lap time during qualifying for the Korean Grand Prix today after his HRT developed a water pressure problem that forced him to return to his garage.

Heikki Kovalainen suspects that his qualifying lap in Korea today, which gave him P19 on the grid for tomorrow’s race, could have been his best of the season.

Vibrations during his single qualifying lap in Q2 caused Michael Schumacher to miss out on a place in the top-ten shoot-out by exactly one tenth of a second in Korea today.

Lewis Hamilton has said that his pole position in Korea today ‘wasn’t entirely unexpected’, saying that his qualifying performances this season have actually been pretty good.The 2008 world champion, who looked a little subdued after stepping out of the car, was fastest in each of the three sections of qualifying today, and will start ahead of Sebastian Vettel.

Jérôme D’Ambrosio has been having a tricky weekend so far in Korea, and today in qualifying his fastest lap was nearly 1.5 seconds slower than that of team-mate Timo Glock.

Red Bull were denied pole position for the first time this season in Korea as Lewis Hamilton came out on top during qualifying in Yeongam today. World champion Sebastian Vettel will start alongside the Brit on the front-row of the grid with Jenson Button in third.

Jenson Button was the fastest driver in the final free practice session in Korea, 0.289 seconds faster than McLaren team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton was fastest during FP2 in Korea whilst Michael Schumacher topped the timesheets in FP1.

Lewis Hamilton was top of the timesheets after a wet day of Friday practice in Korea, setting a lap that was 0.104 seconds faster than McLaren team-mate Jenson Button.