American Mario Andretti, after qualifying in an excellent third position, was disqualified when the engine in his Parnelli stalled on the grid and his crew push started him.

In qualifying Mario Andretti took a comfortable pole position with John Watson just beating the second Lotus of Gunnar Nilsson to second.

The Swedish race was full of anticipation after Gunnar Nilsson's win last time out, but once again in qualifying, it was his teammate Mario Andretti leading the way from John Watson, with James Hunt heading the second row.

In qualifying, Mario Andretti took his fifth pole of the season with Jacques Laffite alongside on the front row, and James Hunt third.

Its legality was soon protested, but it was allowed to race, John Watson and Niki Lauda qualifying 2nd and 3rd behind the Lotus 79 of Mario Andretti ( the two drivers did this as to not draw attention to the remarkable advantage that the fan would provide ).

There were no surprises in qualifying, with Mario Andretti on pole and Ronnie Peterson alongside him, with Niki Lauda third.

Qualifying was as expected, Mario Andretti taking pole with Ronnie Peterson alongside in the all-Lotus front row ( it would be Lotus ' last 1-2 qualifying result until the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix ), and Niki Lauda heading the second row.

Its legality was soon protested, but it was allowed to race, Niki Lauda and John Watson qualifying 2nd and 3rd behind the Lotus 79 of Mario Andretti.

During the 1978 season Andretti would frequently post the faster qualifying time.

World champion Andretti was also off the pace for Lotus, qualifying 9th.

Piquet, Fittipaldi, Villeneuve, Andretti and Mass restarted in spare cars, in Piquet's case his fragile qualifying car and Rosberg had his car repaired.

The Williams were 1-2 in qualifying with Prost on pole ahead of Hill, Schumacher, Senna, Wendlinger and Andretti.

The new European Grand Prix at Donington Park was next and the Williams were 1 – 2 in qualifying with Prost on pole ahead of Hill, Schumacher, Senna, Wendlinger and Andretti.

Now to San Marino and the Williams were 1 – 2 in qualifying with Prost on pole ahead of Hill, Schumacher, Senna, Wendlinger and Andretti.

In the second session, Andretti went faster with a 1: 22. 06, but it was Niki Lauda's Ferrari that grabbed the pole in final qualifying on Saturday in 1: 21. 63.

After Friday's qualifying, Andretti had been so pleased with his car that he said, " We don't know any more that we can do.

At the beginning of the 2007 season, Chaffin switched to the # 37 R & J Racing car but was replaced by John Andretti before qualifying for a race.

* 1994: Geoff Bodine cleaned house in the Yankee 400 on Hoosier Tires while Indycar veteran John Andretti turned heads qualifying second in Richard Petty's Pontiac after Wally Dallenbach, Jr. was released, but the story of the weekend was a savage crash in practice that left Ernie Irvan fighting to live ; Irvan would recover from near-fatal injury over a year later.

After finishing 40th at Chicagoland, Haas released Sprague in favor of John Andretti, who finished 41st at Loudon, 33rd at Pocono, before qualifying 15th and finishing 19th at Watkins Glen International.

He drove for them on their debut in 1985, scored their first point in the 1988 United States Grand Prix, although he had been running 5th for quite a long time during the race until being passed by Tyrrell's Jonathan Palmer, took their only front-row start at 1990 USA Grand Prix ( aided by special Pirelli tyres ; several of their other drivers had surprise qualifying results that day ), their only lap leading a race in the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix, where he finished 5th, and scored their joint-best F1 result of 4th.

Following a life-threatening injury during qualifying for the 1995 Australian Grand Prix, Häkkinen made a considerable improvement in 1996 and took his first victory at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

Rabbi Schneerson's mother said her son never attended any Soviet school, though he took the exams as an external student and did well on them According to Avrum Ehrlich, he immersed himself in Jewish studies while simultaneously qualifying for Russian secondary school.

In the next race, the Austrian Grand Prix, Montoya finally outpaced his teammate Ralf Schumacher in qualifying and took a career-best second.

In the penultimate race of the year, at the Suzuka Circuit in Japan, Räikkönen took his 7th victory of the season after starting 17th on the grid ( as rain, and an engine failure for Räikkönen, had mixed up the qualifying grid ).

He also took pole position in the wet qualifying session in France and three podium finishes, at the San Marino, French, and European Grands Prix.

He had been an admirer of Michael Collins and took the pro-Treaty side in 1922 before later returning to his studies and qualifying as a teacher.

Rhyl took part in the Champions League starting in the second qualifying round against Partizan of Serbia.

Schumacher took pole position in Japan after a wet one-shot qualifying session prevented many drivers from setting competitive laps.

He passed the qualifying examination, and after seven months of studying at the Foreign Service School in Washington, he took on his first post, as a vice consul in Geneva, Switzerland.

The qualifying trivia test took a grueling three-and-a-half hours ; Stempel got 251 out of 363 questions right, which he claims is the highest score ever achieved.

Brawn GP impressed from the first grand prix: Button took pole position in Australia, his first for the team and second ever, with Barrichello qualifying in second.

Button took pole position with the final lap of the qualifying session, describing the updates as " good step forward ".

The draw for the qualifying competition took place in Manchester on 22 January 1994.

Originally, Yugoslavia qualified for the final stage, but due to the Yugoslav wars, the team was disqualified and their qualifying group's runner-up, Denmark, took part in the championship.

At the time, only eight countries took part in the final stage of the tournament, seven of which had to come through the qualifying stage.

Portugal participated in the qualifying stages with manager Carlos Queiroz for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which took place in South Africa.

The qualifying draw for the 14th European Championship took place in Warsaw on 7 February 2010.

On the December 12 episode of Raw, Big Show took part in a qualifying match for a shot at the WWE Championship in an Elimination Chamber match at New Year's Revolution 2006.

After World War II Wales, along with the other four home nations, rejoined FIFA in 1946 and took part in the qualifying rounds for the 1950 World Cup, the 1949 – 50 Home Championships being designated as a qualifying group.

The majority of the players took a paycut and led Maidstone to their best league finish since reforming, finishing a comfortable 15th in the Isthmian Premier table and reaching the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup.

The draw for the finals tournament took place on 2 December 2007, and saw Group C immediately labelled as the " group of death ", with Italy, France, Romania and the Netherlands competing for the two qualifying places.

Finland also took part in European Championship qualifying since the 1968 event, but had to wait for its first win until 1978.

The draw for 1992 UEFA European Football Championship qualifying took place on 2 February 1990, with East Germany drawn in Group 5 along with Belgium, Wales, Luxembourg-and West Germany.