 His final flying lap saw him qualify twenty-first for the race, one place ahead of team-mate Heikki Kovalainen.It was only the sixth time in eighteen races that Petrov had out-qualified his team-mate.Caterham later claimed that Karthikeyan's stoppage robbed them of the chance to set faster times, and the net result was that both Caterham cars qualified behind the Marussias of Timo Glock and Charles Pic, prompting the team to declare that they had now caught Caterham in terms of raw pace.