F1 British GP Live Updates - final practice and qualifying

By: Jake Boxall-Legge

Summary


	Hamilton dominates Q3 for pole
	Verstappen best of the rest, Vettel only 10th
	Gasly, Albon, Hulkenberg, Kvyat, Russel miss Q3 cut
	Magnussen, Giovinazzi, Raikkonen, Grosjean, Latifi miss Q2 cut

Status: Stopped

17:28 That's it from us! Enjoy the rest of your Saturday, and we'll see you again tomorrow for the British Grand Prix. Cheerio!

17:27 Here's the full report from qualifying, from the desk of Alex Kalinauckas:

F1 British GP: Hamilton charges to Silverstone pole position

Lewis Hamilton recovered from a red flag-causing spin to beat his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas to pole position for Formula 1's 2020 British Grand Prix

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17:11 Your top 10, then: 1. Hamilton, 2. Bottas, 3. Verstappen, 4. Leclerc, 5. Norris, 6. Stroll, 7. Sainz, 8. Ricciardo, 9. Ocon, 10. Vettel

17:10 Vettel lost his laptime for going off at Copse, so he's P10.

17:09 Stroll dropped to P6, as Norris outqualified him as he continues his impressive year.

17:09 But that's a mighty Hamilton pole, 0.3s over Bottas.

17:08 Leclerc went up to third, but Verstappen bumped him out of the top three.

17:08 Bottas matches Hamilton's original headline time, but Hamilton does a 1m24.303s!

17:07 Bottas and Hamilton are going even quicker, if you didn't think they could squeeze much more out of their cars...

17:07 Stroll grabs an armful of opposite lock in the opening corners, and his first sector is a touch down on his best.

17:05 Can anyone join the Mercs in the 1m24s? Can Stroll outqualify Verstappen? Cannes hosts a world-renowned film festival.

17:04 Phase 2 of Q3 is go, then, as everyone's out on fresh softs.

17:02 There's a gap of a second between the provisional front row and the second - Mercedes channelling their inner Liverpool so far, it seems.

17:01 After the initial flurry of runs, it's:
1. Hamilton, 2. Bottas, 3. Verstappen, 4. Stroll, 5. Leclerc, 6. Vettel, 7. Norris, 8. Sainz, 9. Ocon, 10. Ricciardo.

17:00 Bottas is just a smidgen slower than Hamilton, as Verstappen shoots into third ahead of Stroll.

16:59 ...then Hamilton does a 1m24.616s. Crikey.

16:59 Anyway, Norris kicks things off with a 1m26.456, a fraction clear of Sainz.

16:58 Leclerc was released from the pits right in front of Stroll, who had to pump the brakes.

16:57 And it's a full Q3 house on-track now. All on softs, as per usual.

16:55 Norris is first on the road.

16:55 Here we go then - Q3 begins, and so does the battle for pole!

16:53 The stewards will look at Ocon's block on Raikkonen post-session.

16:51 Into Q3, then, we have Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Sainz, Leclerc, Ocon, Ricciardo, Norris, Vettel, Stroll.

16:49 Eliminated: 11. Gasly, 12. Albon, 13. Hulkenberg, 14. Kvyat, 15. Russell.

16:48 In fact, Gasly matched Stroll's time like-for-like, thousandth for thousandth, but Stroll set his time first to put Gasly out.

16:48 Stroll, by the skin of his teeth, hangs onto a top 10 berth with medium tyres. Nicely done.

16:47 Albon misses out on Q3!

16:47 Hulkenberg pops into the top 10, but Ricciardo immediately bumps him out! Ocon goes P5.

16:47 Stroll's other sectors were poor, though, and doesn't improve!

16:46 Stroll's first sector is on a par with some of the soft runners, so that's okay for a set of mediums...

16:45 Bottas and Hamilton also pop out on softs, just to put a heat cycle through them presumably.

16:45 All, apart from Vettel and Stroll, are on softs.

16:44 And there's the trigger. 3m30s on the clock, and more or less everyone pours out onto the circuit.

16:43 There will be a flurry of runners soon, but with five minutes left, it's all calm on the Silverstone front...

16:41 And does - it's a 1m25.347s for the six-time champ. Q3 secured, presumably.

F1 British GP Live Updates - final practice and qualifying

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F1 British GP: Hamilton charges to Silverstone pole position

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