Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari’s Felipe Massa will start 11th and 14th after they were eliminated in the second qualifying session for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Saturday.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was quickest, ahead of Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg and Raikkonen’s teammate Romain Grosjean.
Daniel Ricciardo will make his first appearance in the top-ten shootout for Toro Rosso after he was ninth-fastest in the second session.
Caterham’s Heikki Kovalainen will start 16th after beating seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher to make a rare appearance in the second qualifying session.
Apart from former champion Raikkonen, the other drivers out in the second session are Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi, who will start 12th ahead of Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg, Massa and Williams driver Bruno Senna.
Williams driver Pastor Maldonado chose not to run in the second session after picking up a five place grid penalty for an illegal gearbox change.
His penalty lifts Schumacher one place to 18th, while Kovalainen’s Russian teammate moves up to 19th, breaking a streak of three 20th place grid position in the first three races of the year.
