* Engine Change - drops 10 places on the grid

Felipe Massa and Lewis Hamilton a week on from their duel in Malaysia, the duo waged a private battle at the top of the timesheet throughout the three segments of qualifying to leave their more experienced team-mates to battle for the second row.  Whilst Massa took pole people are voting for Hamilton to win. The gaps to both of their respective team-mates suggest that Räikkönen and Alonso may have qualified with slightly heavier fuel loads.  The BMW´s continued their strong showing with 5th and 6th places on the grid, Heidfeld still to getting the better of his young team-mate Robert Kubica.  Drawing a lot of attention in qualifying was Anthony Davidson´s Super Aguri Honda outqualify team-mate Takuma Sato for the first time and just missed out on getting in amongst the big boys in the final session by a mere 0.2s.  Rubens Barrichello outqualify Jenson Button for the first time in 2007., but fellow Brit David Coulthard´s RB3 stopped out on circuit in final practice, was unable to complete more than four laps in the first session after his RB3 suffered a gearbox-related problem.  Lewis was third in Australia, second in Malaysia and the question is can he win here tomorrow?

The pressure today was on Felipe Massa and today he made the statement that he is a serious contender for the 2007 Championship driving a faultless race putting the bad luck at Australia and his mistake last weekend in Malaysia behind him and took a well deserved third Grand Prix win here.  (He talks to Michael Schumacher before and after each race).  He was pushed all the way by Hamilton.  At the start the Ferrari driver was into the first corner ahead of Hamilton, with Fernando Alonso overtaking Kimi Räikkönen, with Jenson Button out at the first corner.  The safety car came out whilst the debris was cleared away, but Kimi Räikkönen was caught napping.  It was evident that Fernando was not on pace and was holding up the Finn, but in the first pit stop he managed to leap frog the Spaniard and the strong showing by BMW's Nick Heidfeld was reinforced this afternoon when the German made a superb overtaking maneuver on Fernando to take fourth position which he was to hold until the end of the race.  Making is presence felt was DC who starting from the back of the grid moved up into the points, overtaking his team mate Mark Webber, but luck struck a cruel blow when after the second pit stop the right drive shaft went and the Red Bull was out.  Mark Webber then inherited a points position only to suffer a retirement.  The McLaren´s came in after the Ferraris, who were quicker in a straight line, and put on their mandatory hard compound.  Lewis Hamilton then proceeded to pull in Felipe Massa and it did look as if Fernando Alonso could snatch his fourth place back from Nick Heidfeld but did not.  Giancarlo Fiscihella was urged to overtake Jarno Trulli, the Italian having been dismissed by Renault in 2004., but he managed to stay ahead and take 2 more points.  This now leaves 3 drivers heading the points table, a good race and a good championship and it cannot be long before Lewis Hamilton wins his first Grand Prix.  Fernando Alonso will obviously be hoping to make amends at his home Grand Prix at Montmelo (Barcelona).  Felipe Massa was definitely "Driver of the Day" but had David Coulthard finished it could well have been him and it must be a moral booster to him that the public made him their "Driver of the Day".