Villeneuve demoted for impeding Fisichella

Fisichella, who stalked down to the BMW Sauber garages to remonstrate with the former world champion after failing to make the cut in the second qualifying session, will still start behind the Canadian in 11th place.

The Formula One stewards ruled in a statement that Villeneuve had committed an offence by impeding Fisichella but accepted that it may not have been deliberate.

They ordered that Villeneuve should lose his best three laps in the final 10-driver session, relegating him to 10th place from eighth.

However, he will move back up to ninth because Australian Mark Webber, ahead of him in a Williams, collects a 10-place penalty for an unscheduled engine change.

Provisional starting grid:

 1.  Alonso         Renault
 2.  M.Schumacher   Ferrari
 3.  Massa          Ferrari
 4.  Barrichello    Honda
 5.  Raikkonen      McLaren
 6.  Button         Honda
 7.  Trulli         Toyota
 8.  Montoya        McLaren
 9.  Villeneuve     BMW           (penalty: +2)
10.  R.Schumacher   Toyota
11.  Fisichella     Renault
12.  Coulthard      Red Bull
13.  Heidfeld       BMW
14.  Liuzzi         Toro Rosso
15.  Klien          Red Bull
16.  Albers         Midland
17.  Speed          Toro Rosso
18.  Monteiro       Midland
19.  Sato           Super Aguri
20.  Webber         Williams     (penalty: +10)
21.  Montagny       Super Aguri
22.  Rosberg        Williams     (penalty: +10)