I couldn’t believe this, watching practice. Schuey braked hard into the corner (anticipating Alonso following a few 10s of seconds behind) and did a stoppie, sliding the front-end, inch-perfect, to the barrier in a stunning display of precision driving.

He then (in my opinion, and those of the F1 stewards) deliberately stalled, waiting for Alonso.

This had the effect of slowing Alonso’s flying lap by maybe a couple of 1/10s, enough to keep Scumacher on pole.

Luckily the F1 stewards have stripped Schumacher of the pole, and sentenced him to start alongside Massa his teammate at the back of the grid.

More here from the BBC.