Chequered flagpublished at 07:10 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2017
LEWIS HAMILTON SECURES POLE POSITION FOR THE AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX.
Summary
Lewis Hamilton secures pole position
Vettel 2nd, Bottas 3rd, Raikkonen 4th
Ricciardo crashes out
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Chequered flagpublished at 07:10 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2017
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It's P2 for Sebastian Vettel. He's 0.268s down on Lewis Hamilton but a great lap nonetheless.
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No! Lewis Hamilton does a 1:22.188.
Only Sebastian Vettel can prevent Hamilton taking pole position now...
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Valtteri Bottas is fastest of all through the middle sector but loses time in the final sector. It's a 1:22.481 is it enough for pole position?
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Here. We. Go.
Who will take the first pole position in 2017?
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Romain Grosjean is the first to cross the line as he does a 1:24.074. Fifth quickest for now, but the rest are heading out now.
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We've just had an issue with the leaderboard so I'll provide updates best I can here.
Romain Grosjean is the first to return to the circuit.
Go! Go! Go!published at 07:00 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2017
The session has restarted with eight minutes to go...
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Adeel Ejaz: Those 10s between Bottas and Lewis finishing their laps was exciting. Ferrari ever so close! This is good watch!
Reece Young: These cars really bite when you make a mistake.
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Three tenths of a second separate the top three and there was practically nothing between Sebastian Vettel (1:22.796) and Valtteri Bottas (1:22.798).
It's going to be so, so tight when this session gets back under way.
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Daniel Ricciardo was flat out on the approach to Turn 14 before losing the rear end. The Australian climbs out of the Red Bull and sounds forlorn as he apologises over the radio.
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The clock stops at eight minutes so a quick catch up of where we are.
1) Lewis Hamilton 2) Sebastian Vettel 3) Valtteri Bottas 4) Kimi Raikkonen
No time: 5) Daniel Ricciardo 6) Max Verstappen 7) Felipe Massa 8) Romain Grosjean 9) Daniil Kvyat 10) Carlos Sainz
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Red flagpublished at 06:53 Greenwich Mean Time 25 March 2017
Oh no! Home favourite Daniel Ricciardo spins and ends up in the barriers.
The Australian is OUT of qualifying.
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Wow, All close at the top as Valtteri Bottas and Sebastian Vettel both have spells at the top of the timesheet before Lewis Hamilton knocks them all off with a 1:22.496, three tenths quicker than Vettel's time.
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Max Verstappen's engineer asks: "How are conditions, Max?
Verstappen responds: "Oh, OK. Just small drizzles."
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Here we go. The final part of qualifying is under way.
This promises to be fascinating.
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in MelbourneHamilton was on new tyres in Q2, Mercedes say - there was an error on the information on the official timing app.