Summary

  • Rosberg fastest, Hamilton 2nd, Hulkenberg 3rd

  • Vettel spins off at end of rain-interrupted session

  • Vettel gets gearbox grid penalty as Ferrari postpone running 'halo'

Live Reporting

Chris Osborne

  1. All this talk of sausage is making me peckish.

  2. 'It could be like this all weekend'

    Renault's Jolyon Palmer on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra: "One of the nice things about Austria is it is undulating, but that will mean there are puddles and rivers. It will be challenging but it will be good to get out there because it could be like this all weekend."

    One the yellow kerbs that damaged Max Verstappen's car: "I don't think the kerbs are particularly sensible. There is a mixture of sausage kerbs. I've not had any problems myself."

  3. My optimism over the rain subsiding was misguided.

    It's picked up again and it's shedding it down once more.

    Anyone remember Austin last year? I went slowly mad commentating on hours and hours and hours of precipitation.

    Williams team members shelter from the rain on the pit wallRex Features

  4. F1 dream team

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    Claire Cottingham
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    I'm next to Lewis Hamilton so it's a bit awkward. You'd have to say he would be up there. I like to look forward, so I would think of one of the younger drivers like Max Verstappen. I think he will be a real talent and maybe a future world champion.  

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    Jack Hannaford: Schumi and Ricciardo, with Lewis and Verstappen as their plucky slight underdog rival team drivers. Tasty. 

    Becca Berry: Would have to be Sebastian Vettel and Michael Schumacher

  6. As I say that, a few peeps in the crowd are taking off their plastic panchos. Fingers crossed.

  7. It doesn't look like subsiding any time soon. We'll keep you updated with wet watch.

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    Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    We're asking for your dream F1 line-ups.

    Here is Allan McNish's.

    "Tazio Nuvolari - he's got a fast name. But as a Scotsman growing up the name of Jackie Stewart was the one everyone talked about. So I'd have to go Michael Schumacher and Jackie Stewart."

  10. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

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  11. Aquaplaning galore.

    All the cars are sitting out this deluge.

  12. Claire Cottingham
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    The Mercedes looks comfortable back in the garage. But what's interesting is the wind has got up and it's pushing the water down the pit lane. There is standing water and that will be a bit of a worry when the teams come back out.

  13. Here's Kimi's spin, minutes before the heavens opened.

  14. Thunderstorms coming?

  15. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    "One part of the circuit is wet while another is completely dry. I knew there was a 30% chance of rain, I didn't realise it would be on 40% of the circuit."

  16. It's hammering down. Spray everywhere. Jolyon Palmer goes for a spin.

    All the cars are coming in to put on a new set of tyres.

  17. Drops of rain has quickly changed to a shed load of rain.

    Sergio Perez comes on the radio to say the first sector is driveable but he has doubts over the rest of the track.

    Just as he says it, he spins.

  18. Kimi Raikkonen, the hero that he is, decides to entertain everyone by spinning off on to the gravel at Turn Five.

    He clipped the inside kerb and tried to steady the ship, but was instead showered with pebbles.

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    Stoo G: The yellow kerb situation, as I understand it: Problem: Kerbs damage cars Solution: Stay off kerbs Simple

    You should be a team principal, Stoo.