Bridgestone's super soft tyre provided the grip for Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber to qualify on his first ever Formula One pole position for tomorrow's German Grand Prix at Nurburgring.

Webber set a time of 1min 32.230secs, just over a tenth faster than Brawn GP Formula 1 Team driver Rubens Barrichello. Jenson Button (Brawn GP Formula 1 Team) went third fastest. Notably, Adrian Sutil and Force India achieved their highest ever qualifying with seventh.

Bridgestone's new intermediate tyre was used by a number of competitors during the qualifying session in Q2, when rainfall visited the circuit a number of times. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton used the super soft Bridgestone to go fastest in the morning session with a time of 1min 31.121secs.

Q&A with Hirohide Hamashima - Bridgestone Director of Motorsport Tyre Development

What was significant about today's running?
"Today was very interesting and what an exciting way for Mark Webber to achieve his first ever pole position. The weather was cold, and then we had the additional difficulty for making tyre choice of the rain falling during parts of qualifying too. This was a difficult day for the drivers behind the wheel and the team strategists on the pit wall, but both Red Bull and Brawn achieved good results."

What are the tyre strategy considerations for tomorrow's race?
"Anyone who is at Nurburgring will tell you that the weather is going to be the primary consideration and a lot of time tomorrow will be spent looking at the sky and wondering what will happen next. Two years ago we had a very exciting race here with very variable weather, and tomorrow we might have something similar. If it is dry and cold, then the Bridgestone super soft could be the preferred race tyre. If it is wet, then competitors will have to match their tyre choices from the Bridgestone wet, intermediate and dry tyres to the track conditions at that time. This is a very difficult task if the weather is variable, but very exciting too."

Stats of the Day 
Practice Three 11:00 - 12:00
Driver             Team                    Time        Tyre
Lewis Hamilton     McLaren Mercedes 	   1m 31.121s  SS
Fernando Alonso    ING Renault F1 Team 	   1m 31.340s  SS
Felipe Massa       Scuderia Ferrari	   1m 31.351s  SS

Qualifying 14:00 - 15:00
Driver             Team                    Time        Tyre
Mark Webber 	   Red Bull Racing 	   1m 32.230s  SS 
Rubens Barrichello Brawn GP Formula 1 Team 1m 32.357s  SS
Jenson Button 	   Brawn GP Formula 1 Team 1m 32.473s  SS

Compounds used: Medium / Super Soft / Intermediate
Temperatures 	   Ambient   Track     Weather
AM - Practice 3    15C       17C - 16C Cloudy
PM - Qualifying    16C - 17C 10C - 18C Cloudy / Drizzle