 Due to the accident , the No. 4 car was unable to improve its qualifying time from the previous day , which relegated the car to tenth on the starting grid as competitors improved their times ; Mercedes No. 5 also did not improve its lap time and finished the session seventh . Bernd Schneider was able to go quicker than his time from the previous day with a 3 : 31 @.@ 541 lap for the No. 6 car . Toyota took pole position with a 3 : 29 @.@ 930 lap , while Schneider 's car was placed fourth on the final starting grid . The wreckage of the CLR No. 4 was returned to Mercedes at the end of the qualifying session and the team issued a press release confirming that they could repair the car before the start of the race two days later . A spare CLR monocoque , taken from a test car , was used to rebuild the No. 4 . Webber was able to recover from his injuries by spending the following day in physical training and was cleared on Saturday morning to participate in the race . 
