Barcelona, Spain (My Sportsbook) - Brawn GP's Jenson Button will start on the pole for Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix after setting a new track qualifying record at Circuit de Catalunya.

Button was the last driver to post a time in the final qualifying session. He stole the top starting position away from Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel after turning in the quickest lap at one minute, 20.527 seconds.

It was Button's third pole of the season and the fifth of his Formula One career.

"It's by far the best lap I've had this weekend," Button said. "All weekend this car has been tremendous all the way through qualifying. I found it very difficult to sort of hang on to it on the low fuel, but I got the lap on the high fuel. I'm very happy, and this was a bit of a surprise in a way."

Button broke Felipe Massa's track record, set two years ago.

The current world championship leader will attempt to win his fourth race in the 2009 season. Every driver who has won three of the first four grand prix has gone on to win the F1 title that year.

The last eight Spanish GP have been won from the pole.

Vettel grabbed the outside pole for his second front row start this season.

"We have a very strong car, and this weekend it seems to work pretty well," Vettel said. "Unfortunately, I was not good enough to beat Jenson today."

Button's teammate, Rubens Barrichello, will roll off third in his 17th Spanish GP start.

"I had a good lap," Barrichello said. "I may have been a little bit too early on the track."

Massa will share the second row with Barrichello after qualifying fourth. The Ferrari driver topped the charts in Saturday's final practice.

Mark Webber from Red Bull grabbed the fifth spot.

Toyota teammates Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli qualified sixth and seventh, while Renault driver and Spaniard Fernando Alonso took eighth. Nico Rosberg from Williams and BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica rounded out the top-10.

Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton was off the pace in the second qualifying session and will start 14th in his McLaren MP4-24 car.

"The car was sliding all over the place," Hamilton said. "We don't have anywhere near the same amount of downforce as the other guys in front of us, so it's unfortunate."

Kimi Raikkonen was second to his Ferrari teammate in final practice, but struggled in qualifying with a 16th-place finish. It was the first time the Finn failed to make it past the first qualifying round since the 2006 Bahrain Grand Prix.

Sunday's race is scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m. (et).