Following a prolonged period of total confusion - check around the various F1 message boards and forums - the FIA has finally issued the definitive grid for today's Malaysia Grand Prix.

This is just as well, for in a little over fifteen minutes the 22 cars and drivers will be heading on to the track.

Therefore, without further ado, here is the starting grid for today's race.

Fisichella, Button, Rosberg, Webber, Montoya, Raikkonen, Alonso, Klien, Trulli, Villeneuve, Heidfeld, Speed, Liuzzi, M. Schumacher, Albers, Monteiro, Sato, Ide, Coulthard, Barrichello, Massa, Ralf Schumacher.

The grid looks wholly different to the order on the qualifying timesheets, and this is due to the sheer number of drivers who have had engines changes, either last week in Bahrain, or here at Sepang.

In case you switched off after qualifying thinking that the grid was 'sorted', here's the message given on the official formula One website: "The true grid won't be published until Sunday morning, and there are numerous complications in determining where the drivers with engine changes will ultimately be placed for the start of the eighth Malaysian Grand Prix"

So there you go. Despite all the back-slapping regarding the new qualifying format, there is still a lot of work rthat needs to be done, not only with the third part of the session, but also how the final grid placings are decided.

As we said, there have been a lot of engine changes, and one cannot help but feel that some drivers/teams are taking advantage, having seen what Kimi Raikkonen achieved in Bahrain, with a fresh engine and the correct (one stop) strategy.

The threatened storms never appeared this weekend, and today is pretty much like Friday and Saturday, the sun is totally hidden behind a vast swathe of cloud. In the distance there are some rain clouds, but the experts predict that they will by-pass the circuit. The air temperature is 33 degrees C, while the track temperature is 36 degrees. Humidity is 62%.

With fifteen minutes it's revealed that the FIA has revealed a number of teams have warned that they are considering protesting the legality of the front wing on the Ferrari. This, of course, relates to the flexibility of the wing, and comes at a time when there are murmurings regarding the legality of the rear wing.

This means that having waited over twenty-four hours to discover the definitive starting grid, we may have to wait a couple of months in order to discover the result of today's race - should Ferrari do well. Such is Formula One these days.

The cars head off on the warm-up lap, nobody is starting from the pitlane.

Fisichella makes a great start, as does Alonso, but, for reasons knows only to himself, Rosberg forces his teammate wide. Meanwhile, Raikkonen is off into the gravel, his race over before it has begun.