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So, where are we?
Vettel leads on a 1:36.223. Then it's Hamilton two tenths back, followed by Bottas, Verstappen, the impressive Stroll and Hulkenberg.
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Hamilton takes record 69th pole
Stroll second and Ocon third after penalties for Red Bull drivers applied
Qualifying started at 13:00 BST before Grosjean crashed five mins in
Heavy rain meant qualifying did not restart until 15:40 BST
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Massa improves in the Williams, dropping Vandoorne back into the bottom five.
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Bottas goes up to P2 so he's safely through.
Vandoorne's McLaren also improves.
The Toro Rossos of Kvyat and Sainz are now in the drop zone.
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In trouble right now:
Perez, Bottas, Vandoorne, Massa.
Alonso is still in the pits.
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Vettel improves to P1 in the Ferrari, Verstappen second, then it's Hamilton, Ocon, Hulkenberg and Ricciardo in the top six.
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"These tyres aren't working, guys," is the message from the intermediate-shod Hamilton.
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Renault driver Jolyon Palmer: "It was the tyre choice - I got it very wrong. I didn't get a banker on the wet and then we pitted and the inters didn't work for us. That was it."
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Verstappen - on full wets - goes quickest with a 1:37.739.
Yellow flagpublished at 16:04 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
A very brief yellow flag there as McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne suffers a half spin in Parabolica.
He saves it and continues on his way.
Massa's Williams also had a similar moment.
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Red Bull team radio: "There is a risk of increase in rain."
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Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analystThere is a little bit of a conversation that more rain is coming...
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Green lightpublished at 16:01 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Q2 begins.
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The Red Bull of Max Verstappen is again the first at the end of the pit lane. He's on the full wets.
The Mercs go out on inters.
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Q1 summarypublished at 15:59 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
IN: Bottas, Hamilton, Vettel, Verstappen, Stroll, Raikkonen, Ricciardo, Massa, Perez, Vandoorne, Ocon, Alonso, Kvyat, Hulkenberg, Sainz
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For those keeping track of what are fairly meaningless times, Bottas ended that session quickest with a time of 1:35.716.
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OUT: Magnussen, Palmer, Ericsson, Wehrlein, Grosjean.
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Magnussen is unable to improve on that lap so he, too, bows out. A miserable session for the Haas cars.