Red Bull's double world champion Sebastian Vettel claimed pole position for the inaugural Indian Grand Prix.
Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton's McLaren to pole by 0.296 seconds but Hamilton will line up fifth after a penalty in Friday practice.
Mark Webber was third for Red Bull at the new circuit near Delhi ahead of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari.
Jenson Button will line up fourth, but faces an anxious time while he waits to discover if he receives a penalty.
Ferrari's Felipe Massa crashed immediately in front of Button and it remains to be seen whether the stewards will punish him for not slowing down past the scene of an accident or be lenient because he had almost no time to react.
"I saw the tyre marks and the smoke but I was already in the yellow flag zone," he said. "I backed off [afterwards]. We'll see what happens."
Hamilton's hopes of starting on pole for the second race in a row ended on Friday when he was handed a three-place grid penalty for a separate incident involving flags.
McLaren's 2008 champion had set his fastest lap when yellow flags were out to warn the drivers that marshals were on track at the last corner to retrieve Pastor Maldonado's stranded Williams.
Despite his penalty, Hamilton was pleased with his performance: "It's been a good day for me. I'm surprised we could split the Red Bulls.
"The penalty was a silly mistake for myself but overtaking should be easier and I'm still optimistic regardless of where I start."
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