How Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying unfolded

Summary

Race coverage starts 14:30 GMT on Sunday
Hamilton on pole, Rosberg 2nd
Rosberg can win title with win on Sunday
Button out in Q1, Alonso through to Q3

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Jamie Strickland

Get involved - your home race hero #bbcf1published at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
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Work for Massa to dopublished at 16:36 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Having said that the Williams cars should make it into Q3, Felipe Massa - contesting a race he has won twice of the final time - does have work to do.
He's 11th with four minutes left and need to find a couple of tenths to get ahead of those Force Indias.
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Mercedes are flying (again)published at 16:35 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentator
"That's quite a scary gap between the Red Bulls and Mercedes."
Currently half a second between Hamilton in first and Verstappen in third...
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The make up of the top 10 looks pretty predictable at this stage.
Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari and Williams look like they will be there. But who will join them?
Fernando Alonso continues to impress in the McLaren and is eighth ahead of the final runs, while the Force Indias are also up there right now.
Tom Clarkson says the cut-off to reach Q3 is a time in the mid-1.12s, which is more or less the way it's panning out.
Button baffled by carpublished at 16:31 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Jenson Button, speaking to Sky Sports F1: "The car was well balanced yesterday and today it's a completely new car... at high speed it's just so on the nose and then you destroy the rears at low speed.
"It's annoying."
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Hamilton ahead - for nowpublished at 16:30 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
So the Mercedes drivers have mounted their customary perch at the head of the standings.
Hamilton has the edge at this stage, he does a 1m11.238. Team-mate Rosberg sweeps through second later in a time 0.145s.
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Sao Paulo
Manor's Esteban Ocon is going to be investigated after the session for potentially blocking Jolyon Palmer in Turn Four.
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Go! Go! Go!published at 16:26 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Q2 begins. Title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are the first cars out.
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Get Involvedpublished at 16:24 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
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Farewell, Interlagos?published at 16:23 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Mark Gallagher
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst
"This is Jenson Button's - potentially - final Brazilian Grand Prix, along with Massa... I think for both men this will be an emotional weekend."
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Team radiopublished at 16:22 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Jenson Button: "I had oversteer snap and then understeer. No front-end grip"
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Into Q2 go...published at 16:22 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Hamilton, Rosberg, Verstappen, Raikkonen, Vettel, Ricciardo, Hulkenberg, Massa, Bottas, Perez, Alonso, Grosjean, Sainz, Gutierrez, Kvyat, Palmer
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Q1 eliminationspublished at 16:21 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
OUT: 17 Button; 18 Magnussen; 19 Wehrlein; 20 Ocon; 21 Ericsson; 22 Nasr
Sarcastic, much?published at 16:21 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
Jenson Button is told by his team he will start in P17.
"Yeah we've definitely sorted those problems out, haven't we?" comes the heavily Ironic reply from the cockpit.
Not a happy chap.
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All eyes on Magnussen now...published at 16:18 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
The Dane was dead last after a poor first run but can only improve to 18th after that latest run. He sets a time two tenths slower than team-mate Palmer
Jenson Button again fails to improve and he is also out.
So there was no changes to the cars in the drop zone to what we brought you earlier. Palmer survives and makes it to Q2.
Two minutes to gopublished at 16:17 Greenwich Mean Time 12 November 2016
... and Jenson Button's first attempt at getting out of the drop zone ends in disappointment.
The McLaren man fails to improve his time and is still a tenth of a second behind 16th place - occupied at present by Renault's Joylon Palmer.
Not looking good for the Briton. Team-mate Alonso, meanwhile, is sitting pretty in ninth and not even on track at this stage.
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