Good afternoon and welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Malaysian Grand Prix!

Replays from Webber's cockpit show the Red Bull driver quite simply swamped at the start - watching a procession of cars storm past him with no KERS available

Positions one to five: Vettel, Heidfeld, Hamilton, Button, Petrov

Vettel with a two second lead over Heidfeld up top. Webber has sunk back to ninth after a terrible start

Clean driving from the field, but a wild start nonetheless! Di Resta gets through the inside of Rosberg, but the Mercedes battles back immediately to reclaim 13th place

Michael Schumacher makes a tremendous start in the Mercedes! The German is up to eighth, and Nick Heidfeld takes Hamilton for second at the first corner!

GO GO GO IN KUALA LUMPUR!

The formation lap is underway! Mark Webber has reportedly radioed in a problem to the engineers, to which the engineers responded "we can see it, but we can't do anything about it". More on that situation as it develops...

A quick look at the front of the grid then. Vettel and Hamilton start on the front row, ahead of the Red Bull of Mark Webber and McLaren's Jenson Button. Alonso sits fifth in his Ferrari, with Nick Heidfeld's Renault sixth

McLaren are pumping dry ice into Jenson Button's cockpit at the moment - in an attempt to keep things cool. Sebastian Vettel, meanwhile, looks typically focussed. We're moments away from the formation lap!

It's a hazy day out there - much cooler than qualifying yesterday. I hate to say it, but it does look like rain might be on its way! That should suit the smaller teams at the back...

Renault driver Vitaly Petrov: "Our car looks very strong - the race will be very, very interesting. We don't know what to expect from the weather, and we don't know what to expect from the tyres."

With 20 minutes to race time, what better time to remind ourselves of the

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso endured another sluggish day yesterday, however, finishing almost a second off Vettel's pace. The Spaniard only managed a fourth-placed finish in the season-opener in Melbourne, and

Sebastian Vettel claimed pole for the second straight race for Red Bull, with McLaren's Lewis Hamilton joining the German on the front row.