Love for Alonsopublished at 13:33 British Summer Time 15 July 2017
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Summary
Hamilton on pole, Raikkonen 2nd, Vettel 3rd
Equal five British GP poles with Jim Clark
Bottas & Ricciardo receive five-place grid penalties
Race coverage on Sunday from 11:30 BST
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Q2 begins.
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Tom Clarkson
BBC Radio 5 live commentatorI'm sure everyone at McLaren-Honda is taking a picture of that timesheet.
Eliminatedpublished at 13:29 British Summer Time 15 July 2017
Stroll; Magnussen; Wehrlein; Ericsson; Ricciardo
Q2 qualifierspublished at 13:28 British Summer Time 15 July 2017
Alonso, Verstappen, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, Bottas, Ocon, Vettel, Vandoorne, Raikkonen, Sainz, Palmer, Kvyat, Massa, Perez, Grosjean
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So, let's take stock.
Ricciardo, after that breakdown and the subsequent increase in lap times, is eliminated, while also out go Lance Stroll - whose earlier improvment was not enough - Kevin Magnussen, Pascal Wehrlein and Marcus Ericsson.
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Write Alonso off at your peril, eh?
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Jack Nicholls
Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentatorFernando Alonso's out lap must have been rapid to make it around. It didn't seem like he had given himself enough time to make it round for his flying lap. It was tenths of a second between him crossing the line and the chequered flag - astonishing stuff.
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"Nice job Fernando - P1".
"Good job guys," comes the reply.
A replay shows there was just a fraction of a second between Alonso crossing the line and the red lights coming on to end that segment.
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Alonso goes fastest!
That is brilliant - what a stunning call by McLaren.
He's going to start last anyway with that 30-place penalty but what a great boost for the team and the Spaniard.
Chequered flagpublished at 13:23 British Summer Time 15 July 2017
Alonso beats the chequered flag. Watch this space.
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Hulkenberg into P3. Great effort.
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Stroll into 11th! He drops Sauber's Marcus Ericsson into the drop zone.
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Stoll is on a lap now, trying to improve on 17th....
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Did I say Alonso was done?
He's pitting for slicks!
"Let's give it a go," says his team.
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The McLaren of Vandoorne is now in 16th and heading out after Kvyat improves to seventh place.