Saturday's practice session sees some long-awaited good speed from Ferrari, who are running a heavily revised car in Barcelona, as Felipe Massa tops the time sheets in final practice
Kimi Raikkonen is second quickest in the morning session as the team's new diffuser, sidepods, revised front suspension and tweaked front wing seem to pay immediate dividends
But it looks like Brawn are still the team to beat in Barcelona, and championship leader Jenson Button barely breaks a sweat in posting Saturday morning's third quickest time
Spanish eyes were be on Fernando Alonso - the fans worship their home driver and will be hoping he can repeat his 2006 Spanish Grand Prix victory on Sunday
BMW are sporting a dramatic new look in Catalunya - they have a big aerodynamic redesign with a flat nose and updated front and rear wings - but Nick Heidfeld struggled to get to grips with the changes throughout the day
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen's endures a qualifying session to forget. Expecting his first efforts to be enough, the Finn watches from his garage as his time is bettered by 15 other drivers and he ends up 16th on the grid
Red Bull's young German speedster Sebastian Vettel one again catches the eys and looks set for pole with seconds remaining in the third qualifying session
But Jenson Button pulls a scorching lap out of the bag in his Brawn to grab pole position - the man who has started on pole has won each of the last eight Spanish Grands Prix
Rubens Barrichello starts third in Catalunya, and the post-qualifying weights revealed that Vettel was running with two more laps worth of fuel than Button, so it should be close in Barcelona
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