It came as no surprise to anyone when Jenson Button did it again for Brawn Mercedes in the Malaysian Grand Prix Qualifying. The event proved to be a thrilling affair as the threatening rain held off leaving the front-runners in a frantic battle for the pole position.

For the second straight time, it was Button who got the job done for his team as he stopped the clocks in 1:35.181s, less than a tenth clear of Toyota’s Jarno Trulli. As Button celebrates yet another success for the new Brawn GP team, Trulli will be a little frustrated to lose out on the pole position by the slightest of margins.

Sebastien Vettel was third fastest in his Red Bull Renault three-tenths off the ultimate time but of course takes a ten position grid penalty into the Grand Prix courtesy of his incident with Robert Kubica in Australia.

At Ferrari, it was an evening of drama as Felipe Massa fell at the first hurdle and Kimi Raikkonen scraped into the final round of qualifying in his F60. After setting the ninth fastest time in the final round of qualifying, Raikkonen lines up seventh while Massa is just 16th. Qualifying would prove to be a disaster for the Brazilian Ferrari star who completed just one run in the first round of qualifying on the option tyre and paid the price as he found himself bumped down and out of the running.