Lewis, you left it to the last gasp but you have got your first pole of the season and the Red Bull stranglehold of qualifying has been broken and you pushed your car home as a celebration.
Lewis Hamilton: Yes, it has been a great day and a great start to the weekend. It is just a bit overwhelming really for me. So many memories came back when they told me on the radio just now that I had pole position. It just reminded me of my first grand prix win here and my first pole position here back in 2007, so a very special day. I am just really proud of my guys to be honest as I damaged the car a little bit in practice and they fixed it in no time. Seriously professional. I owe it all to them really and this is really a reflection of their hard work.

Mark, a very different tyre strategy between you and the Red Bull team and the McLaren team. Tell us about your thinking, about how you approached today and particularly tomorrow.
Mark Webber: Well, we thought we could still do a pretty good job today in qualifying on the harder tyre and that turned out to be the case. We knew we would still try and have a crack at the front row. We knew that the McLarens were still very strong on the option tyre if they elected to take it. Obviously it's a long race tomorrow. We were planning to do the best job we can and we think this is something which hopefully will be beneficial to us. We are also mindful of the fact that there might be the odd safety car here and there, so there are many different ways tomorrow's race could unfold. But we have stuck to our guns and the guys have done a great job all weekend and here we are with both Seb and I in the top three again.

Sebastian, another cracking battle with Mark. This time the margin five-one-hundredths-of-a-second but once again in his favour.
Sebastian Vettel: Yeah, I mean it was a pretty entertaining last session. Q3 especially. Obviously we went out on the hard tyres and they take a while to come in. We knew that. To be honest I didn't get a lap in until the very last lap, so it was not the perfect timing, but it worked. The lap was not very clean, so I am still happy that I even made it third, so it is good. Tomorrow I think I should have a good start. I am starting on the... well, both sides are really even, but I am starting on the inside, so let's see what we can do and I am very happy that both of us made it with, from my point of view, the right tyre. After yesterday's practice we have seen the soft tyre is quite difficult to last for more than a couple of laps.

Lewis, give us your thoughts on the race tomorrow, particularly in light of what these guys have been saying about the tyres. Are you confident that you have got the right thing for tomorrow?
LH: I think the key is you need to take each day one at a time and clearly today we wanted to get as far up at the front as possible. For sure yesterday when we were testing the option tyre was not the best. It goes off quite quickly but we are going to do everything we can to maintain them. I think you might see a completely different race unfold tomorrow. There are possibilities, as always with every race here, of safety cars, so that's to be expected, so I guess you have to be quite fortunate when they do and do not come out. I think these guys are in quite a fortunate position with the tyres they are on but who knows the track might improve and the option tyre might end up being the best one but I think we will have a good race tomorrow and, you know, we have just got to keep our heads down.

Press Conference

Lewis, what about that statistic third consecutive pole here and also bringing to an end the run of poles for Red Bull Racing this year.
LH: I think it is fantastic for the team. I think it is a result of continued hard work for the guys and progression. It is great to come back here. I saw that second to last lap that Mark had gone ahead and I was so fortunate that the guys came across the radio and said that I had another chance to get another lap in. But it is great for us to at least split these guys. That's what we have been working on for quite a long time. I think tomorrow is another day but today is a great result and I am very, very happy.

Quite a margin as well in fact, about a quarter-of-a-second. What do you think of that?
LH: I think generally every time we have done a lap here it has been good gap like that. I am definitely surprised to see it. I didn't know what time these guys had done. Definitely surprised to see the lap times. I did a 15.5, I think, which is quite a good lap. I don't know where I found all the time but I knew it was there, so just very happy. No matter how it feels, just a small amount ahead, but this is perfect for us.

You mentioned just now about the mechanics fixing something for you?
LH: Yes, the mechanics did... I saw them at work today like I have never seen them before. It was just like watching an orchestra. It was amazing. They did such a fantastic job. After P3 I just clipped the wall out of turn four and there was a little bit of a heavy feeling. I think it was the bearing on the front right and we didn't risk it and changed the front and rear corner just to be sure. Nothing was broken, but just to be sure and they did an incredible job to do that in the 40 or 45 minutes before pulling up to qualifying. I think it was quite impressive.