Summary
Hamilton out of qualifying after technical problem - will start last with penalty
Rosberg on pole, Ricciardo 2nd, Raikkonen 3rd, Vettel 4th
Hulkenberg loses wheel out on track
Wehrlein crashes after spinning on wet patch - causing delay
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Rain to stay away?published at 07:28 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Early forecasts suggested we would be in for a wet qualifying today, and a stormy start to the day in Shanghai backed that up.
However, it now looks like the rain clouds may stay away...
Postpublished at 07:26 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Could this be Ferrari's weekend? Kimi Raikkonen was fastest in practice yesterday, while Sebastian Vettel topped the times in the wet today. Mercedes, though, didn't bother setting a lap time in final practice.
Postpublished at 07:24 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Postpublished at 07:23 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
There is a reason for a cat in a hat with cake. It is an F1 legend's birthday today with Sir Frank Williams 74 today.
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 07:19 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Want an image of a cat in a hat with a cake? Course you do...
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End of twitter postComing uppublished at 07:16 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
BBC Radio 5 live sports extraOne hour of qualifying gets under way at 08:00 BST, with 5 live commentary starting just before and you can listen to it on this page.
Get involved #bbcf1published at 07:15 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
There were no cars on the track for the first 20 minutes or so of final practice because of the weather, so we had to entertain ourselves for a bit. Thankfully, this boyband pose by Toro Rosso and Red Bull helped with that.
Image source, Toro RossoPostpublished at 07:11 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
The forecast is for wet qualifying, but it is looking pretty dry at the track at the moment. You could have sailed to the circuit with the amount of rain that fell before final practice.
Vettel 'fastest' in third practicepublished at 07:09 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer
Image source, Getty Images"Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel set the pace in a wet final practice session.
"The German was 0.710 seconds quicker than Williams driver Valtteri Bottas as neither Mercedes driver set a lap time in order to conserve tyres.
"Only 14 drivers set times as the number of wet-weather tyres is limited and teams were saving them for qualifying."
Read Andrew's full report here.
Postpublished at 07:04 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Image source, Getty ImagesHello and welcome to our coverage of qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix!
An old friend returns today - the 2015 qualifying format.
Some would say it should never have gone away, but F1 bosses were keen to find a way of mixing up the grid.
Today, the weather might just do that for them.
Back to the futurepublished at 07:00
Image source, Getty ImagesIt came, it was farcical, it went, it came back and was farcical once more.
Yep, I'm talking about the ill-fated elimination qualifying format.
We had it in Australia and we had it in Bahrain but for today's Chinese Grand Prix qualifying we're going back to the future.
Rules? Where we are going we don't need convoluted rules...
Postpublished at 06:11 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
We can but hope Tom!
Qualifying is at 08:00 BST, but we'll be booting up with our build-up at 07:00.
I'm off to try some beans and bacon in a bowl.
Postpublished at 06:09 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentator"There's no rain. It is drying out but it is quite overcast. We didn't learn anything meaningful. I have always been a fan of two-day gp weekends because it throws an element of the unkown into qualifying. Hopefully that is what we will get today."
Postpublished at 06:06 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
FP3 resultpublished at 06:05 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
11) Nasr 12) Raikkonen 13) Massa 14) Haryanto.
No time: Button, Alonso, Grosjean, Kvyat, Rosberg, Ricciardo, Hamilton, Ericsson.
Postpublished at 06:04 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Can we just take that top 10 for qualifying? That would certainly make things interesting.
FP3 top 10published at 06:03 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
1) Vettel 2) Bottas 3) Perez 4) Sainz 5) Gutierrez 6) Palmer 7) Magnussen 8) Wehrlein 9) Verstappen 10) Hulkenberg
Chequered flagpublished at 06:00 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
The chequered flag is waved and Sebastian Vettel finishes fastest in final practice for the Chinese Grand Prix.
Postpublished at 05:59 British Summer Time 16 April 2016
Jolyon Palmer, one of four drivers out for the final couple of minutes, goes P6, just ahead of his Renault team-mate Kevin Magnussen.