Righty-ho, you can stick a fork in this F1 live text because we are done. Be sure to peruse Andrew Benson's qualifying report, which is now up on the site.

We'll back with you tomorrow at 11:00 BST for all the build-up to the ninth round of the season, where championship leader Lewis Hamilton will start from his 46th career pole bidding for a third British Grand Prix win.

And as we go our separate ways on this Saturday afternoon I feel obliged to impart one last nugget of wisdom, one you would all do well to remember:

You'll never be as cool as Eddie Jordan.

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Felipe Massa's third place on the grid is Williams' best qualifying performance at Silverstone since Juan-Pablo Montoya took pole in 2002.

That race in 2002 was also the last time both Williams made the top four of the British GP grid, with Ralf Schumacher on row two.

Max Baggins-Craig: Real shame for Button & McLaren, it's goin to be a very long journey, but hopefully not too long... ‏

Jeremiah Kariuki: ‏Lewis knows when to make the lap count! The first Lap of Q3 was all what mattered and it won the Pole for him.

With Hamilton's lap today, Mercedes have become only the second constructor in Formula 1 history to take 20 consecutive poles.

Williams are the only other team to achieve the feat, in 1992-93.

The Williams team went on to achieve 24 poles in a row (France 1992 through Japan 1993).

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Felipe Massa, P3: "It was a fantastic day for us. It is amazing to see how many people here, it is the home grand prix for the team and it is great to see.

"Me and Valtteri were third and fourth fighting each other, especially in Q3, and I just managed to get a fantastic lap in the end.

"I'm so happy, really looking forward to tomorrow. Hopefully we can have a strong race and fight with the Ferrari. It is important to see we are in front with both cars we just need to concentrate on tomorrow now."

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Nico Rosberg, P2: "Well first of all the first lap was really good, Lewis was just one tenth quicker which is annoying but way it is.

"It is awesome to see how many people and here. It's great to see how enthusiastic everyone is about our sport. No one improved in that last run apart from Felipe. There was something wrong on my left front, we need to look at what it was."

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Lewis Hamilton, P1: "It's a special day. When you see all those fans out there, so many people they really do motivate me.

"It is special when you do get the pole. Generally it has not been the smoothest of weekends. I made a change in the car before qualifying which hopefully will be good for the race. Once I got to Q3 I could go all out, and I am incredibly happy. Big thank you to everyone for the support.

"It's the banners, the flags, the team caps, the messages that get sent every day. I was replying to some just before qualifying they just create the atmosphere that buzz. You know those guys are there right behind you and I hope the energy they give can help us tomorrow."

Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff on Hamilton's pole: "It's great he is on pole, he deserved it. The wind is pretty strong and gusty that was a bit of a messy situation for everybody.

"Until this morning it was Nico who was more at ease but, as you can see in all the other races, Lewis responds when it matters."

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Edward Williamson: As much as Kimi has done a good job today to try and silence his critics, I'd still rather see Hulkenberg in that Ferrari.

Liam Whitehouse: Great position for Lewis. Hopefully this is the turn around for Williams as well.

Tracy: I'm betting on Massa to win. Well deserved for team and driver if it comes true.

That pole position is Lewis Hamilton's third at the British Grand Prix, but more importantly takes him to third outright on the list of all time pole-position winners.

He now has 46, moving him one ahead of Sebastian Vettel, and behind only Ayrton Senna (65) and Michael Schumacher (68).

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Nico Rosberg: "No grip on the left front - very strange."

Eddie Jordan
BBC F1 chief analyst

"I am really quite surprised Lewis looked out of sorts, locking up, on edge of bite lines - well done to him he dragged that round himself."

Ferrari feared they would be unable to challenge the Mercedes this weekend but I don't think they envisaged being out-qualified by both Williams cars, but that is exactly what happened.

Kimi Raikkonen will start fifth, 1.1secs shy of Hamilton's time, with team-mate Sebastian Vettel a tenth further back.

Kvyat, Sainz, Hulkenberg and Ricciardo round out the top 10.

Ben Edwards
BBC F1 commentator

"Just listen to that response from the crowd. He's done it again. That's what they came to see Lewis Hamilton has delivered."

Hamilton actually aborted his final lap there, so all attention switched to Rosberg.

However, the writing was on the wall when the German failed to improve on his previous best time in the middle sector, and crossed the line unable to better his earlier effort of 1:32.361.

Pole instead goes to Hamilton - his third at Silverstone - with that initial 1:32.248.

The big winner in those final runs was Felipe Massa of Williams, who claimed third in a time of 1:33.085 while team-mate Valtteri Bottas could not improve.

LEWIS HAMILTON TAKES POLE POSITION FOR THE BRITISH GRAND PRIX

He's two tenths up on his team-mate.

Hamilton has lost time in the middle sector.

All eyes on Rosberg