Summary

  • Hamilton on pole in rain-interrupted qualifying, Hulkenberg 2nd, Button 3rd

  • Five place grid penalty for Rosberg and Vettel

  • Two suspected suspension failures after Rosberg crash in practice

  • Kvyat crashes heavily in Q1

Live Reporting

Chris Osborne

  1. Go! Go! Go!

    Third practice restarts and we have just over 10 minutes remaining.

    Sebastian Vettel is among the first out.

  2. Even if Rosberg is ready for qualifying, he'll be going in cold, having not performed some qualification simulations this morning.

  3. Plenty of damage on the front of Nico's Mercedes - that will need plenty of work. The car is on the back of a truck and is being whizzed through the service roads to the garage.

    Will Rosberg be ready for qualification?

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

    Nico is back in the garage and looks furious. He threw his arms up in the air. It's not often you see Nico with such emotion - you can see he is very frustrated.

  5. Wow, this could have been horrible for Nico Rosberg. He's in the Turn Two hairpin and rides the kerb. You can see the suspension fail on his rear left tyre. That sees him turn completely 90 degrees and the next thing you know he's bouncing off the wall and on to the track.

    He looks OK and is waving to the crowd.

    The marshals and a tractor will try and clear the debris. 

  6. red flag

    Red flag

    That has caused the red flag to come up - session stopped.

  7. Crash!

    Nico RosbergRex Features

    Nico Rosberg has hit the barrier!

  8. Quiz time

    #bbcf1

    The chaps on BBC Radio 5 live (listen using the Live Coverage tab) have posed a poser.

    Who are the two American teams to have won in Austria - who were they and when?

  9. Hamilton and Rosberg are still in the pits. They've been there a while.

    With 25 minutes remaining, it looks like they're both being primed to head back out on the track.

    Nico is unleashed first.

  10. Sergio Perez goes wide at Turn Eight - the corner that became a personal nemesis of Max Verstappen yesterday - but goes all the way around the yellow sausage/baguette kerbs.

  11. Ferrari's tyres not as blistered

    Claire Cottingham
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    I've just seen Ferrari's tyres and they are nowhere near as blistered - although they are probably newer - as the Mercedes' were.

  12. Ferrari are currently in P1 and P2 - they registered those times on ultra soft tyres.

    Both Mercedes are in the garage, after suffering blistering on their ultra softs.

    Why are Mercedes finding problems?

  13. Felipe Massa is up into P5.

  14. Gutierrez does the smartest thing of the day and heads into the garage.

  15. A lot of talk of Kimi Raikkonen leaving Ferrari next season.

    Maybe the rumours have pierced his sunglasses-shield and penetrated his ears.

    He's just taken P1 with a 1:07.234.

  16. Get Involved - Who is going where next season?

    #bbcf1

    Pete Bellamy: Stoffel to McLaren, Button to Top Gear

    Roshan Patra: Kimi isn't going anywhere. He will perform and stay at Ferrari. Vettel and Kimi for next season.

  17. Kimi Raikkonen rejoins his team-mate Sebastian Vettel out on track - both men are now riding on ultra soft tyres.

    Vettel is in P1, Kimi in P2.

  19. 'Something's going to break'

    Esteban Gutierrez, meanwhile, has out-done both of the Mercedes. He has an ACTUAL problem.

    "I have a bad feeling something's going to break," he ominously tells his Haas team.