Summary

  • Rosberg secures pole position, Verstappen second in qualifying

  • Hamilton uses another engine - grid penalty now 55 places

  • Defending world champion will start from back of the grid

  • Verstappen second, youngest driver ever on front of grid

  • Alonso 30-place penalty, Ericsson 10-place penalty, Gutierrez 5-place penalty

Live Reporting

Chris Osborne

  1. With five minutes left it's Esteban Ocon and Lewis Hamilton in the drop zone out of the drivers to have completed a lap. Ricciardo, Magnussen, Alonso and Nasr have yet to register a time and are in danger.

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    Gingeresting: With @LewisHamilton's 55 place grid penalty, does that mean he has to start from the car park?

    Patrick Brookings: What, no rain at #SpaFrancorchamps? Must be a miracle!

    Jonathan Idle: if everyone took 30 place grid penalty, who'd be on pole?

  4. The track limits are catching drivers out as Kevin Magnussen has a lap deleted for cutting the corner in Eau Rouge.

  5. Kimi Raikkonen is feeling the buzz of marriage as he goes quickest. Only for team-mate Sebastian Vettel to top him by a 10th of a second.

    Lewis Hamilton completes a lap and it's the slowest of the 15 drivers on the board.

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  7. Nico Rosberg sets the quickest time on slower tyres than the rest of the field - he's clocked a 1:48.019.

    Meanwhile, Felipe Nasr goes into P2 and then mysteriously disappears off the board... ah, he cut the corner at Turn Four and the stewards are having none of it.

  8. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    In very high track temperatures - especially on circuits like this - the harder compound of the tyre can actually give you more support and consistency.

    Therefore you can actually get a faster lap time, even though you've got less grip, purely because the car gives that little bit more feeling.

  9. Esteban Gutierrez sets the early pace with a 1:49.291 and Haas team-mate Romain Grosjean goes two tenths slower.

  10. Nico Rosberg goes out on soft tyres - hoping to save the super-softs.

    Lewis Hamilton is on the super-softs for his cameo.

  11. For those who think F1 is on its backside - it's alive and well in Belgium.

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    Big F1 fan.

  13. Alonso engine update

  14. Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez of Haas are out on super-soft tyres.

    Pascal Wehrlein and Esteban Ocon of Manor join them on mediums.

  15. It's worth noting that Lewis Hamilton can still set a time capable of reaching Q2 and be in the second session - but he's unlikely to turn up for it.

  16. Go! Go! Go!

    First qualifying is under way.

    Eighteen minutes with the 16 quickest going through to Q2 - six will be eliminiated.

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    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

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    There's no getting away from it, that cloud DOES look like a dog.

    Yesterday was national dog day, though.

  19. Weather is hot!

    Sizzle me this, sizzle me that, who's afraid of the heat on that Belgian track?

  20. BBC Radio 5 Live

    Qualifying starts at 13:00 BST and you can listen to the BBC Radio 5 live commentary team online right now - do it by clicking the audio button at the top of this page.

    There will be updates into BBC Radio 5 live too.