The metal in the front grid is based on the AuGe/Ni/Au system.
The Porsche duo (alongside their fellow team-mate Timo Bernhard) now have four poles this season and, with the extra point for qualifying on the front of the grid, have done exactly what was needed to enhance their title hopes.
Bernhard finished just 128 thousandths of a second behind to ensure a place on the front row of the grid.
In a repeat of last year's qualifying, the German was joined on the front row of the grid by Britain's 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton - last year's winner for McLaren and now with Mercedes.
He originally came to Europe in 1961 as a bag carrier for his friend and fellow Mexican, the legendary Ricardo Rodriguez, who qualified his Ferrari on the front row of the grid at Monza in 1961 on his grand prix debut.
Britain's Alan McNish had qualified the No2 Audi on pole and he made a clean start while Wurz jumped the No1 Audi, which was also on the front row of the grid, to take second place at the first corner.
The younger Schumacher had qualified second alongside Montoya on the front row of the grid but, as the pack accelerated away to the first right-hander, he moved left towards Rubens Barrichello's Ferrari which had nowhere to go as the fast-starting Raikkonen's McLaren was pulling level on the left.
He had started on the front row of the grid alongside pole-sitting team-mate Nico Rosberg, but as the German got away quickly on the clean side of the road, Hamilton was on the dirtier side of the racing line and struggled immediately.
By comparison, the two Williams were on the front row of the grid, and were dicing with the Mercedes for much of the race.
The Aprilia rider qualified on the front row of the grid for the first time this year and was involved in a thrilling battle at the front in the second race, involving Melandri, Chaz Davies and Biaggi.
