Round 4 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2008-04-27
Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) took pole for the 2008 Spanish Grand Prix with a 1:21.813 lap.
Fernando Alonso (Renault) joined the front row, 0.091s shy of pole, with Felipe Massa (Ferrari) third on the grid. Nelson Piquet Jr. (Renault) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Rubens Barrichello (Honda) missed the cut by —s.
Q3 was settled inside 0.886s — pole to P10 — with Nelson Piquet Jr. (Renault) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:20.701 | 1:20.784 | 1:21.813 | 1:21.813 |
| 2 | 14Fernando Alonso | Renault | 1:21.347 | 1:20.804 | 1:21.904 | +0.091 |
| 3 | 19Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:21.528 | 1:20.584 | 1:22.058 | +0.245 |
| 4 |
| 88Robert Kubica |
| BMW Sauber |
| 1:21.423 |
| 1:20.597 |
| 1:22.065 |
| +0.252 |
| 5 | 44Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 1:21.366 | 1:20.825 | 1:22.096 | +0.283 |
| 6 | Heikki Kovalainen | McLaren | 1:21.430 | 1:20.817 | 1:22.231 | +0.418 |
| 7 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:21.494 | 1:20.984 | 1:22.429 | +0.616 |
| 8 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 1:21.158 | 1:20.907 | 1:22.529 | +0.716 |
| 9 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW Sauber | 1:21.466 | 1:20.815 | 1:22.542 | +0.729 |
| 10 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Renault | 1:21.409 | 1:20.894 | 1:22.699 | +0.886 |
| 11 | Rubens Barrichello | Honda | 1:21.548 | 1:21.049 | — | — |
| 12 | Kazuki Nakajima | Williams | 1:21.690 | 1:21.117 | — | — |
| 13 | 22Jenson Button | Honda | 1:21.757 | 1:21.211 | — | — |
| 14 | Timo Glock | Toyota | 1:21.427 | 1:21.230 | — | — |
| 15 | 6Nico Rosberg | Williams | 1:21.472 | 1:21.349 | — | — |
| 16 | Sébastien Bourdais | Toro Rosso | 1:21.540 | 1:21.724 | — | — |
| 17 | David Coulthard | Red Bull | 1:21.810 | — | — | — |
| 18 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Toro Rosso | 1:22.108 | — | — | +0.295 |
| 19 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Force India | 1:22.516 | — | — | +0.703 |
| 20 | 99Adrian Sutil | Force India | 1:23.224 | — | — | +1.411 |
| 21 | Anthony Davidson | Super Aguri | 1:23.318 | — | — | +1.505 |
| 22 | Takuma Sato | Super Aguri | 1:23.496 | — | — | +1.683 |