Coulthard was hoping for more

"I'm annoyed with that because I felt confident with the car this weekend," said Coulthard, who had retired from the Malaysian Grand Prix.

"I had more laps available as a consequence of not finishing in Malaysia and had a good run yesterday. I locked up in Turn 3 on my last lap and lost some time.

"But, there you go, at least now we have more choice over strategy for tomorrow. You never quite know what to expect here with the changing weather conditions, I could have stayed in Scotland to get rain and wind like this... It should make tomorrow interesting."

The Red Bull driver still managed to outqualify his teammate Christian Klien, who struggled with a lack of grip during the day.

The Austrian will start from 14th position.

"It was difficult today as I struggled to find enough grip throughout the qualifying session," Klien said. "The warm up performance of the tyres didn't seem as good as usual and I had a lot of understeer going into corners. As a result, I couldn't go back onto the throttle as quickly as normal.

"I made it in to the second qualifying and my final lap was going well, but then there was some rain on the last corner and I went wide, running over the kerb and grass. I lost half a second there and that was it."