Ahead of today's qualifying session the air temperature is 26 degrees C, whilst the track temperature is 30 degrees. As ever with these twilight events, the disparity in temperatures between the early and late sessions presents a conundrum for the teams. In this morning's session Nico Rosberg led the way, as he did in FP2 yesterday, whilst teammate Lewis Hamilton, though only 0.281s off the pace, failed to convince. Whilst pole-man has only won here once since the first event in 2009, the winner has always started from the front row. Furthermore, as with all street tracks, as overtaking is difficult it is vital to be as near the front of the grid as possible. The Ferraris have looked good...
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