USA GP: Qualifying notes - Renault

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The BMW Sauber F1 Team has kept up its 2007 record by qualifying in the top ten with both cars for the US Grand Prix. Nick Heidfeld will start from fifth, although third was on the cards, but for a small mistake on his last lap, and he missed the second row by eight thousandths of a second. Meanwhile, Sebastian Vettel will start his first ever Grand Prix from seventh after doing a total of 110 laps in free practice.

Fernando Alonso insists Hamilton's pole hasn't dented his confidence in his race chances.

USA GP: Qualifying notes - Super Aguri

USA GP: Qualifying notes - Williams

USA GP: Qualifying notes - Red Bull

Lewis Hamilton admitted he had expected his team-mate Alonso to beat him to pole at Indy.

After making steady improvements to the R27 throughout the weekend, both drivers made it through to the third part of qualifying for just the second time this season, in spite of the extremely close times on a circuit where the total lap-time is only just over 70 seconds. Heikki Kovalainen continued a strong weekend by qualifying P6, his best grid position to date in Formula 1, while team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella will start from P10. Both drivers are optimistic of a strong race tomorrow, as the R27 has performed consistently and competitively over long runs on both types of Bridgestone Potenza tyre.

USA GP: Qualifying notes - Toro Rosso

USA GP: Qualifying notes - Spyker

The Toyota drivers qualified themselves in tenth and twelfth. After two bad qualifying runs for Ralf Schumacher the German managed to show what he is capable of again in Saturday's Indianapolis qualifying session. He qualified himself in sixth row for Sunday's race. Team-mate Trulli will start from fifth row.