Hamilton on pole, Rosberg 2nd, Massa 3rd, Bottas 4th
Raikkonen 5th, Vettel 6th, Kvyat 7th, Sainz 8th, Hulkenberg 9th Ricciardo 10th
Raikkonen top in Q1, Rosberg in Q2
Hamilton only 3rd in Q2 and 4th in Q1
Both McLarens out in Q1, Lotuses & Verstappen out in Q2
Nigel Mansell tells BBC Sport the British crowd at Silverstone could have an influence on the race.
"I think it will give Lewis half a second if not a second, he flew pretty quick this morning in practice," the four-time British Grand Prix winner parps.
Just a reminder that we have a little quiz question simmering on the hob this Saturday lunchtime.
It goes as follows:
Five British men have finished in second place in the British Grand Prix without ever actually winning their home race. Can you name them?
You've got around 20 minutes til we reveal the answers.
Grapevine Grand Prix: Even with Hamilton's resurgence this morning, I still think Rosberg will pip him. But only just.
Dan the Soldier Man: Merhi will be last cus propa' Landaner Will Stevens will use crowd power to get him 19th.
Gaby Wolferink: Hopefully Toro Rosso will keep their advantage over Red Bull and Williams.
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Image source, Getty ImagesToday would have been the 55th birthday of Roland Ratzenberger.
The popular Austrian was just 33 years old when he died in an accident while driving a Simtek in practice for the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the day before Ayrton Senna was killed while leading the race for Williams.
Ratzenberger, who also competed in British F3, British Touring Cars and at Le Mans, entered three F1 races, starting once at the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix at Aida, where he finished 11th.
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer
Image source, Getty Images"As Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg prepare to do battle for pole position at the British Grand Prix, there have been some interesting quotes published in the papers, external from Hamilton. Two particular things stand out. One was his revelation that, when he stopped at Portier on the slow-down lap after losing in Monaco, he was praying: 'It just gave me strength.'
"The other was a very pointed remark about winning his second title. 'Winning the world championship for the first time was special,' he says. 'And then everyone got one. Well, not everyone, but a few of the drivers. Then it felt like having one was not special any more. So getting that second one was huge to me.' It's hard not to read that as a slight against one particular rival. A blond German one."
The battle for pole is obviously always important, but if ever there was a place to miss out on top spot, it's here at Silvestone.
Just three of the last 17 British Grands Prix have been won from pole, making this the least important pole of the year. Rubens Barrichello in 2003, Fernando Alonso in 2006 and Sebastian Vettel in 2009, all on the previous layout, represent that happy band.
That said, you don't want to qualify too far back.
Lewis Hamilton's win from sixth last year was the first British GP at Silverstone to be won from outside the top five on the grid since Emerson Fittipaldi's final F1 win in 1975, when the Brazilian came through from seventh place for McLaren.
Image source, Getty ImagesLewis Hamilton's win in the rain at Silverstone in 2008 really was a drive out of the top drawer.
In horrendous conditions, the young Briton, in only his second F1 season, never put a wheel wrong as he crushed the opposition with a Senna-esque display.
It's well worth another look, and you can do just that here.
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Image source, Getty ImagesYesterday we were asking for your British F1 heroes and had an amazing response.
It got me thinking about just how many British drivers have competed in this great sport over the years, and just how many are largely forgotten today.
Reg Parnell is a name familiar to F1 purists but is not widely known today, but in fact he was one of this country's most successful drivers in the immediate pre- and post-war eras, so much so he was awarded the British Racing Drivers' Club's Gold Star in 1947.
Although his career in F1 ran to just seven races, he finished on the podium in the first of those - the inaugural Formula 1 grand prix at Silverstone in 1950.
Image source, Getty ImagesParnell (left) alongside race winner Giuseppe Farina (second right) and Luigi Fagioli (right), Silverstone 1950
Sixty minutes until qualifying begins for British Grand Prix.
Hamilton or Rosberg?
Place your bets now.
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We're all off to rake the gravel at Copse, but while we do we thought a little quiz would be a nice way to sustain you between now and qualifying.
The question is this:
Five British men have finished in second place in the British Grand Prix without ever actually winning their home race. Can you name them?
Answers to #bbcf1 please.
We'll reveal all during the build up to qualifying from 12:00 BST.
Is what a number of F1 drivers might be telling their mechanics right about now.
Certainly a good number of them were sailing off the track at Copse today, where it seems the gusty conditions have been wreaking most havoc.
Jenson Button's excursion below was one of around a dozen wind-assisted detours during FP3, and it's worth remembering that any such incidents in qualifying will result in the driver losing that lap time.
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Image source, .Nico Rosberg did get a lap in at the end there but it does not trouble his team-mate.
Rosberg ends five tenths down on Lewis Hamilton, whose time of 1:32.917 has thrown down the gauntlet ahead of qualifying. He said he needed to improve after yesterday's disappointments and it seems he has.
Kimi Raikkonen is two tenths behind Rosberg in the first Ferrari with the second of Sebastian Vettel in fourth, a full second off Hamilton.
Then it's the ever-impressive Toro Rossos of Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz, the Williamses of Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, while Daniil Kvyat (Red Bull) and Pastor Maldonado (Lotus) complete the top 10.
While Rosberg gets good news, for McLaren's Fernando Alonso it stays bad.
He's got a hydraulic issue and will not get out for a quali-sim run.
Just six laps in this session for the Spaniard.
It transpires Rosberg's oil leak was not as serious as first thought and he will be able to get a quali sim lap in.
He's heading out with two minutes to go...
Lewis Hamilton's first run on the medium sees him register a 1:32.917.
That's more than seven tenths up on Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari on the same tyre.
The Williams man will be the first to do a quali-sim lap on the softer tyre.
Yesterday the medium tyre proved around 0.8s faster than the hard.
He does a 1:34.5, only around half a second up on his hard-tyre runs and way off the Mercedes.
Tom Clarkson
BBC F1 pit-lane reporter
"McLaren's old front wing in the Silverstone pitlane - just in case"
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