Summary

  • Hamilton on pole, Rosberg 2nd after both spin off

  • Vettel third, Massa 4th, Hulkenberg 5th

  • Rosberg fastest in Q1 & Q2

  • Raikkonen out in Q1, Ricciardo out in Q2

  • Alonso & Button handed 25-place grid penalties

  1. Postpublished at 13:12 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Manor on Twitter:, external A little excursion for Will but he's bringing the car home ready for his second run...

  2. Williams also put on slickspublished at 13:12 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Soft tyres for the Williams boys and they duly deliver, Valtteri Bottas taking provisional pole with a 1:17.297.

    Team-mate Felipe Massa slots into third.

    Valtteri BottasImage source, Getty Images
  3. Ferrari team radiopublished at 13:11 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Vettel: "Tyres are suffering quite a lot."

  4. Time for slickspublished at 13:10 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Felipe Nasr is first man out on the slicks.

    Despite two very messy moments the Sauber man does a 1:20, just seven tenths off the pace.

    He's also gone quickest of all in the first sector of the next lap.

    Felipe NasrImage source, Getty Images
  5. Get involved - quali predictions #bbcf1published at 13:08 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Jessica: I'd love a cheeky Lotus, Williams, & Toro Rosso making an appearance on the 2nd row today!

    Adam: Time for a bit of a mad hatters qualifying, bit wet to mix it up, then in an hours time, all change with the penalties...

    Jeremiah: Despite the awful practice by Lewis, he may be a surprise Pole winner. He knows how to make best out of qualifying.

  6. Sainz improvespublished at 13:08 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Lap times coming down now.

    A 1:19.4 sees Sainz return to the top of the pile after briefly being replaced by team-mate Verstappen.

  7. Toro Rosso team radiopublished at 13:07 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Carlos Sainz: "I think it will be slicks at the end of quali."

  8. Postpublished at 13:06 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Mercedes on Twitter:, external Both cars on green intermediate tyres to kick off quali. Let's see what they've got...

  9. First laps around the 1:20-markpublished at 13:05 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    So, on this drying track the drivers are some 10-12 seconds off the best pace in the dry.

    Carlos Sainz, who was bold enough to do a lot of running on the full wets in FP3, is currently quickest for Toro Rosso on a 1:20.903.

    He's a second up on both Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.

    Carlos Sainz JrImage source, Getty Images
  10. Toro Rosso team radiopublished at 13:04 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Max Verstappen: "Quite dry on the back straight with a bit of wet on the corner."

  11. Quick check on the drivers' standingspublished at 13:01 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    F1Image source, F1
  12. Green lightpublished at 13:00 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    The first qualifying session beings.

    Sauber's Marcus Ericsson the first man out, on the intermediates.

  13. Postpublished at 13:00 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Force India on Twitter:, external No rain at the moment, but the temperature is pretty much on the cold side!

    Force IndiaImage source, Force India
  14. Risk of rain...published at 12:59 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    ...is 30%, according to race control.

    Track is still damp from the earlier downpour though.

  15. Arrivabene unimpressed with Red Bull gripespublished at 12:56 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Andrew Benson
    Chief F1 writer

    "Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz's decision to reiterate his threat to potentially pull out of F1 and heavy criticism of Renault has created a lot of headlines this week, but it has been given short shrift by Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene.

    Maurizio ArrivabeneImage source, AFP

    "'It is easy to be happy when you are winning four championships or easy to complain when you are not winning any more,' Arrivabene said. 'F1 is like this. You could have a couple of years when you are winning and a couple when you are losing and this is the beauty because if everything is predictable it is not a race, it is something different. You have to accept when something is gone wrong and happy when something is going right.'"

  16. Take three minutes to watch thispublished at 12:54 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Our multimedia guys have played a blinder with this lovely potted history of the Austrian Grand Prix.

    It starts of like an episode of Holiday '86 and then meanders through lots of lovely high-speed action, crashes and a particularly memorable interview between Murray Walker and Nigel Mansell.

    Enjoy.

    BBC
    Image caption,

    'Ooooh, I'm sorry'

  17. Get involved - caption competition #bbcf1published at 12:53 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Rick Elliott: Hare given 37.5 place grid penalty for exceeding track limits.

    Phil Crawford: 'Maurizio Harerivabeni'

    Jason: McLaren's new "hare-odynamics" adviser arrives.

    Andrew Bennett: Jenson Bunny claims to be at an significant disadvantage.

  18. Get involved - McLaren grid penalties #bbcf1published at 12:43 British Summer Time 20 June 2015

    Moonshine: Penalties against McLaren put off new entrants, F1 needs new engines, manufacturers etc.

    James Stacey: These penalties are ludicrous - why penalise drivers for their engines faults? Why restrict manufacturers engine developments?

    Keith McCormick: I used to rearrange my weekends around F1. No more. Boring, too many rules, no excitement. Tyre and fuel management killed it.