The qualifying session was played already with the title won by Vettel, but it seemed that it could present more emotion than before. Still, Vettel was again the favorite, and the German was taking it easy and came to his box with the Q1 already begun. His teammate was also waiting at the end to get out on track.
The first part of Q1, with favorites rolling with the medium compound, was dominated by Mercedes, with Hamilton 48 thousandths ahead of Rosberg. The Red Bull did not come out until there were 8 minutes left, and did so directly with the soft compound, began the struggle to get to Q2, with all drivers using the soft compound. Esteban Gutierrez was the first to see the checkered flag by a miscalculation, and fell in the seventeenth position, ahead of Adrian Sutil. Giedo van der Garde was at this time the first of the “slow”, although we have seen gaining advantage to overcome the limits of the track. Jules Bianchi has been twenty, twenty-first Charles Pic and Max Chilton has closed the classification.
Great equality we have seen in Q1, and anything could happen in Q2 , and the first thing we have seen is like practically Mercedes claimed the first step to Q3 , with the fastest times of the weekend , with Rosberg 4 mil per Hamilton before. The last two minutes were exciting, with constant changes in the cutting zone. The two Williams had slipped in Q2 and were surprisingly first candidates to be out, and this was confirmed with Maldonado and Bottas sixteenth and fifteenth. But the surprise was the elimination of Fernando Alonso in the eleventh position, behind his teammate Massa. Behind the Spaniard, di Resta, Button and Vergne. The last time Alonso went off top ten was in the European Grand Prix last year, ended up winning the race where also coming eleventh.
In the first round of attempts in Q3, Sebastian Vettel is clearly highlighted on the Mercedes, and Webber made a mistake in the third sector that prevented him move from fifth. The last minute was the decisive, Mark Webber was the first to set a time and the Australian has the best provisional time, Nico Rosberg made a mistake and did not improve his third position. Behind Hamilton had a spin and has not improved. Yes Vettel slightly improved his time, but could not overtake Webber, who took his second pole of the season, the other was in Japan.
| P | Driver | Team | Time |
| 1 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 1:39.957 |
| 2 | Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:40.075 |
| 3 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:40.419 |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:40.501 |
| 5 | Kimi Räikkönen | Lotus | 1:40.542 |
| 6 | Nico Hulkenberg | Sauber | 1:40.576 |
| 7 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus | 1:40.997 |
| 8 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 1:41.015 |
| 9 | Sergio Pérez | McLaren | 1:41.068 |
| 10 | Daniel Ricciardo | STR | 1:41.111 |
| 11 | Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:41.093 |
| 12 | Paul di Resta | Force India | 1:41.133 |
| 13 | Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:41.200 |
| 14 | Jean Eric Vergne | STR | 1:41.279 |
| 15 | Pastor Maldonado | Williams | 1:41.395 |
| 16 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 1:41.447 |
| 17 | Esteban Gutiérrez | Sauber | 1:41.999 |
| 18 | Adrian Sutil | Force India | 1:42.051 |
| 19 | Giedo van der Garde | Caterham | 1:43.252 |
| 20 | Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 1:43.398 |
| 21 | Charles Pic | Caterham | 1:43.528 |
| 22 | Max Chilton | Marussia | 1:44.198 |