Summary

  • Jenson Button will not drive in F1 next year

  • 2009 champion signs two-year deal with McLaren for ambassadorial role, but could race in 2018

  • Stoffel Vandoorne will partner Fernando Alonso in 2017

  • Race coverage on Sunday from 11:30 BST

  1. Postpublished at 13:42 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Grosjean is in P12 there, but has a five-place grid penalty to serve because of a gearbox change.

  2. Postpublished at 13:42 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    He does. Daniel Ricciardo lands a lap good enough for P6 at the death and that bumps Felipe Massa into the bottom six.

    So - eliminated are Massa, Grosjean, Alonso, Wehrlein, Button and Sainz.

    Daniel RicciardoImage source, AP
  3. Postpublished at 13:41 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Hulkenberg jumps up to P8 - Ricciardo is in the drop zone. He's about to cross... can he escape?

  4. chequered flag

    Chequered flagpublished at 13:40 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Sainz, Grosjean, Hulkenberg, Wehrlein, Alonso and Button are in danger as we await the end of the final laps.

  5. Postpublished at 13:40 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Thirty seconds left - who's heading out?

  6. Mercedes on toppublished at 13:39 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Jack Nicholls
    Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentator

    When you look at those times by Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, they're absolutely miles away from the other teams. It's absolute domination.

  7. Postpublished at 13:39 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Kimi Raikkonen, in P5, is not going to risk it either so he's out too.

    In fact only Vettel and Bottas are staying put in the garage.

  8. Postpublished at 13:37 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Red Bull have flinched. They were bluffing.

    Verstappen and Ricciardo come out on super-soft tyres to make sure they get through to Q3.

  9. Postpublished at 13:37 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Lewis Hamilton has gone 1:21.498 on softs.

    Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, on super-softs, has gone 0.777secs slower on the quicker super-softs.

    Mercedes are untouchable.

    RosbergImage source, AP
  10. Stick or twist for Red Bullpublished at 13:36 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Mark Gallagher
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    I don’t how good Christian Horner and the Red Bull team are at poker but they’re going to need their best poker faces right now.

  11. Postpublished at 13:35 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Sainz, Grosjean, Hulkenberg, Wehrlein, Alonso and Button are the six cars in the drop zone.

    The Hulk will fancy his chances of boshing off one of those Red Bull cars, I reckon.

  12. Postpublished at 13:34 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Verstappen sets a rime good enough for P9. And Ricciardo comes through to dislodge him and push him down to P10.

    That is a very nervy position to be in with the top 10 going through.

  13. Postpublished at 13:33 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    So, Red Bull obviously want to start the race on soft tyres. But they would guarantee progressing to to Q3 on super-soft tyres.

    Saying that, their pace was not great on the softer compound in FP3.

    Worth keeping an eye on this one...

    RicciardoImage source, Getty Images
  14. Pole on offer for Hamilton?published at 13:32 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Jack Nicholls
    Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentator

    So far today Lewis Hamilton has looked absolutely invincible.

  15. Postpublished at 13:31 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Red Bull are feeling confident - they're on soft tyres too. It's a risk.

  16. Postpublished at 13:30 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Nico Rosberg sets a 1:21.498 and once again Lewis Hamilton makes a mockery of it by going 0.311secs quicker. 

    Lewis HamiltonImage source, Reuters
  17. Postpublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton go straight out on soft tyres.

    Cars must start the race on whatever tyres they use for their fastest lap in Q2 - so this suggests Mercedes want to be on the longer-lasting soft compound for the start of the race.

  18. Go! Go! Go!published at 13:26 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Q2 - here we go.

    Fifteen minutes of racing, six more cars eliminated.

  19. Postpublished at 13:26 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Daniil Kvyat really is a man feeling the strain at the moment.

    He came on the radio after his elimination and splashed a string of profanities towards his Toro Rosso team.

    It was so bleepy I didn't even get a gist of what he was saying.

  20. Palmer finds his mojopublished at 13:24 British Summer Time 3 September 2016

    Tom Clarkson
    BBC Radio 5 live commentator

    Jolyon Palmer would be the first to admit that he lost his confidence early this season, but Kevin Magnussen is no slouch, so for Jolyon to be out qualifying him on a race track like Monza is a fantastic performance and proof that he is getting his mojo back.