The rain threatened to be a factor this afternoon in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix but never materialised as expected allowing Ferrari to show their raw speed around the Sepang circuit.

Felipe Massa claimed pole position, the tenths of his career, with a lap almost half a second clear of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen. The F2008 has run flawlessly today and the team dominated qualifying leaving Heikki Kovalainen and Lewis Hamilton very much second best on the second row of the grid.

Over at Force India and the practice pace relative to its rivals did not materialise in qualifying trim with Giancarlo Fisichella 17th and Adrian Sutil 20th. At the back, Takuma Sato will take comfort in out-qualifying Sutil and Super Aguri Honda team-mate Anthony Davidson.

Full Race Report : F1 : Ferrari lock out the front row - Sepang - F1-Live.com

Grid for tomorrows race :

01. MASSA ------Ferrari
02. RAIKKONEN --Ferrari
03. KOVALAINEN -McLaren
04. HAMILTON ---McLaren
05. TRULLI -----Toyota
06. KUBICA -----BMW
07. HEIDFELD ---BMW
08. WEBBER -----Red Bull
09. ALONSO -----Renault
10. GLOCK ------Toyota
11. BUTTON -----Honda
12. COULTHARD --Red Bull
13. PIQUET -----Renault
14. BARRICHELLO Honda
15. VETTEL -----Toro Rosso
16. ROSBERG ----Williams
17. FISICHELLA -Force India
18. BOURDAIS ---Toro Rosso
19. SATO Super -Aguri
20. SUTIL ------Force India
21. DAVIDSON ---Super Aguri
22. NAKAJIMA ---Williams*