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The qualification session at Sakhir has ended, with Toyota claiming the first two grid positions. Jarno Trulli and Timo Glock will be starting side by side from the first row tomorrow.

The weather was sunny and the heat was great. The air temperature climbed up to 38 degrees while the track was at 51.

Rain showed up for another time during this season's championship. In fact rain was already there when the Chinese race started. The race start took place behind the safety car, which remained in track for 7 laps.

After the safety car went off track, Vettel immediately started driving at a very quick pace showing that his is going to be the ruler of the race.

Sebastian Vettel took the pole position for the the Chinese GP, after making a lop of 1:36.184 sec in Q3, on Saturday's qualifying. The young German could not believe he took the first place after his Red Bull showed it had problems during the Saturday's running.

Another Malaysian grand prix came to an end. And it came to an end sooner than expected due to heavy rain conditions that made the track undriveable. For the second time this season we have seen the Brown cars being the fastest ones in track, with Toyota and Williams having made a good step forward.

Nico Rosberg had a great start and took the first place after the first corner. J. Trulli followed him, leaving Jenson Button third. The race was exciting during the whole time. We have seen great battles, many overtakings and the result was unpredictable during the whole race.

Jenson Button dominated the Saturday's qualifying session in Sepang with a magnificent 1:35.181.His teamate Rubens Barichello was 4th proving that the result for Brawn GP in Australia was not a coincidence. Vettel took the 2nd place with Trulli in the 3rd. The second Toyota with Timo Glock waas in 5th place, also showing that Toyota is in a good run.Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber with the two Williams where 6th and 7th respectively.Robert Kubica with BMW was in 8th place.The Ferrari's and the McLaren's where both disappointing. Kimi Raikkonen took the 9th place as his teammate Felipe Massa did not even qualify for Q2. The McLaren's where in 13th place with Leiws Hamilton and 14th with Heikki Kovalainen. Fernando Alonso with Renault completed the first ten drivers.

We don't exactly know what to write or what to say about what we saw today. The team that didn't know if it was even going to race this season, the team of people who were almost unemployed just a few weeks later, a team that didn't even have time to put its sponsors' logos on its drivers suits, won the race. Not only won but it took the second place as well, leaving no doubts about the role Brawn GP is willing to play in this year's championship.

Jenson Button won the Australian race while his teammate Rubens Barichello took second place after an accident between S. Vettel and R. Kubica 2 laps before the end during their fight for the second place.

Button had a good start and he kept his position throughout the race. Barichello on the other hand had a bad start, when his gearbox went on neutral, as he said during the interview after the end of the race. Also he had a few contacts with some other drivers during the race, which caused some of them to retire, while he faced some problems with his car, but managed to stay in and fight.

So here we are again after a long break. Even though we were well informed of the winter testings, we couldn't have predicted what happened today.

The qualification session of the Australian f1 race took place a few hours earlier today. It seems that the new regulations have managed to change the status quo in formula 1 racing. Brown's cars (former Honda) were the quickest on track and locked the first line on the grid, with Jenson Button being first and Rubens Barichello following 0.3sec behind.