Auto racing F1 the rain held off and Ferrari came on as form returned to the Formula One grid for the second race of the season. Brazilian Felipe Massa grabbed pole for Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix with a 1 minute, 35.748-second tour of the 3.44-mile Sepang Circuit. Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen followed a half-second on to lock out the front row.

The F1 McLaren Mercedes of Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton aligned on row two.They were followed by qualifying ace Jarno Trulli in a Toyota, then came the BMW Saubers of Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld, ahead of Red Bull's Mark Webber, Renault's Fernando Alonso, and Toyota's Timo Glock. 

The pole was Massa's second in succession at the Sepang track and Ferrari's seventh in the 10 grands prix staged to date on the Malay Peninsula.