Summary

  • Vettel on pole in first Ferrari lock-out for nine years

  • Bottas 3rd, Hamilton 4th

  • Palmer crashes out in Q1

  • Sunday's race coverage from 11:30 BST

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. IN

    1) Bottas 2) Hamilton 3) Vettel 4) Raikkonen 5) Verstappen 6) Ocon 7) Hulkenberg 8) Ricciardo 9) Sainz 10) Massa

    11) Kvyat 12) Perez 13) Stroll 14) Alonso 15) Magnussen

  2. OUT

    16) Palmer 17) Vandoorne 18) Wehrlein 19) Ericsson 20) Grosjean

  3. chequered flag

    Chequered flag

    Valtteri Bottas finishes fastest in the first part of qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix.

  4. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    He's damaged the nose, and damaged the rear and Palmer will now be out, and these are things that happen when you're pushing.  

  5. Jolyon Palmer went trundling over the sausage and took off, flew into the gravel before ending up spinning into the barrier.

    Actually looks like Pascal Wehrlein just managed to avoid hitting the wall. He lost the rear end as he took a corner and spun.

  6. yellow flag

    Yellow flag

    Out comes the flag and there's two cars into the wall! Jolyon Palmer and Pascal Wehrlein are both pushing, too hard it seems as they end up in the tyre wall.

  7. Jack Nicholls
    Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentator

    Kvyat and Palmer need to pull something out of the bag with a minute remaining and won't get another shot at this. 

  8. Romain Grosjean has his customary grumble about some such issue with his Haas. He's bottom of the order at the moment.

  9. Nervous times for the Russian fans as home favourite Daniil Kvyat is dropping down towards the elimination zone. He is currently 14th, with Jolyon Palmer 15th and right on the bubble.

  10. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    It is a circuit Williams have done well at and they are slightly off last year's pace at the moment but still expecting a good performance. 

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  11. Valtteri Bottas, Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen all pit. They are safely into Q2.

  12. McLaren need an improvement if they are to get through to the next part of qualifying. They are currently getting prepped for one final stab at avoiding an early exit.

  13. Lewis Hamilton puts it together on his next run and goes second quickest with 1:34.409, four tenths down on his team-mate Valtteri Bottas.

    Everyone has done a timed lap now so the drivers in danger of being eliminated are:

    16) Alonso 17) Vandoorne 18) Wehrlein 19) Grosjean 20) Ericsson

  14. Get Involved #bbcf1

    Sophie Maton: Quali...quali..quali..who's it going to be? Mercedes or Ferrari? 

    Charles A: This is one of those modern tracks you eventually grow to like I think

    Kevin Kelly: Morning guys, from the only F1 fan in Arkansas! 

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  16. Valtteri Bottas lowers the benchmark with a 1:34.177. Sebastian Vettel, on supersofts, goes P2, a second down on Bottas.

    A scruffy lap by Lewis Hamilton as he gets the Mercedes out of shape coming out of Turn 8. The Briton is yet to set a lap time.

    Eight minutes to go in Q1.

  17. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

    Track temperature has gone up and is a big factor on how the tyres will work but it is definitely a swing in favour of Ferrari.  

  18. The times are coming down now as Max Verstappen moves to the top of the order with a 1:36.021.

  20. Fernando Alonso's first time is a 1:37.026, putting him third quickest. Expect times to tumble on their second runs on the ultrasofts.