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2012 Spanish Grand Prix Qualifying
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Hamilton clocks a rapid 1m22.583s lap to top the times.
Karthikeyan is not out for a final run and will finish the session outside the 107 percent qualifying time.
20 min: The flag is out on a frantic first segment.
19 min: Hamilton is the fastest man through the first two parts of the lap, having fallen to 15th.
19 min: Vergne - who was 17th - stays in 17th and is in big danger of being eliminated.
19 min: The Sauber pair also need to find some speed in the final minute, with Perez now 15th and Kobayashi safe in fifth after a good softs lap.
19 min: Ricciardo moves up to 12th with a time of 1m23.906s.
18 min: Massa can only manage 10th with his soft tyre effort, while Hamilton's early hard tyre time has slipped to 12th.
18 min: So all 24 drivers have set a time. Ricciardo, Petrov, Kovalainen, Pic, Glock, de la Rosa and Karthikeyan are in the dropzone.
18 min: Grosjean tops the order on softs for Lotus, with Alonso now second fastest in his Ferrari.
18 min: Di Resta leaps up to sixth place with 1m23.852s and Vettel's time is quickly sinking down the order.
17 min: Hamilton has indeed made the move to soft rubber, with McLaren now forced into using two sets of tyres in this segment.
17 min: Webber also comes through and posts 1m23.952s to go third.
17 min: Raikkonen goes second to Maldonado's benchmark, with a 1m23.406s lap in his Lotus.
17 min: The German crosses the line in 1m23.951s and that puts him second momentarily.
16 min: Vettel uses all of the road and a little more through Campsa as he tries to maximise the tyre performance on this hot lap.
16 min: Raikkonen clocks the fastest first sector on his soft tyres.
16 min: Several other drivers have also come out and the track is beginning to get busy again as the Red Bull duo go onto their fast lap.
16 min: McLaren tell Hamilton that he will need to run on softs in this segment.
15 min: Karthikeyan has completed one run already and he is outside the 107 percent target time needed to qualify by almost two seconds.
14 min: Raikkonen has made the switch to soft tyres, as has team-mate Grosjean.
14 min: Webber also heads out on soft rubber with less than six minutes of the segment remaining.
14 min: Button reports massive understeer, a problem he has been encountering all weekend on the harder tyres.
13 min: Finally, the tyre covers come of Vettel's car and he rolls down the pitlane on soft tyres.
13 min: Maldonado is flying on soft tyres and he vaults straight to the top of the list on his first hot lap with 1m23.380s.
13 min: Button has been ordered in to the McLaren pit and will surely be worried about the threat from soft tyre runners.
13 min: Under eight minutes to go and no move yet from the Red Bull pair. One run only? It could be risky with traffic.
12 min: Hamilton finds a further tenth with a new best of 1m23.989s.
12 min: Schumacher is much quicker on his next lap and he moves into third spot with 1m24.262s.
11 min: Hamilton leads the pack with 1m24.143s so far with Perez second, Alonso third, Grosjean fourth, Raikkonen fifth and Schumacher sixth.
11 min: Kobayashi is now the fastest man through the first part of the lap.
11 min: Maldonado is now on track but the Red Bull pair are still in the pits.
11 min: Button can only manage seventh with his first effort, over half a second off his team-mate's best.
10 min: Replays of di Resta almost falling off the wall of death at Turn 3. He runs onto the extra tarmac but continued round to the pits.
10 min: Grosjean improves in his Lotus, going fourth fastest in 1m24.530s.
10 min: Raikkonen is still finding speed as his laps continue, topping the first sector on his latest attempt.
9 min: Vettel, Webber and Maldonado remain in the garage with half of this first segment complete.
9 min: Hamilton shuffles the order again as he grabs the benchmark in 1m24.143s.
9 min: Schumacher pops into fourth, just ahead of team-mate Rosberg with a time of 1m24.628s.
9 min: Perez is the next to top the order with more impressive pace in his Sauber - a 1m24.261s is the time to beat.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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