Gaming buddiespublished at 15:06 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas passing the time away in the Mercedes garage live on Instagram.
Image source, Lewis Hamilton InstagramSummary
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
Listen to 5 live commentary online
Gaming buddiespublished at 15:06 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Image source, Lewis Hamilton Instagram15:15 BST before we get more newspublished at 15:04 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Someone fetch me snacks. Instanter.
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Go on...
J'adore l'Aerocatpublished at 15:02 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
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Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, speaking to Sky Sports: "If we were to do qualifying in the morning, it wouldn't be that difficult for us because we are starting from the back of the grid and we won't do much in qualifying anyway [Red Bull's cars will take grid penalties owing to too may engine-part changes].
"But for others, it's very intense for the team to get the car prepped straight out of qualifying for the race".
Can qualifying be called off?published at 14:55 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
If qualifying is suspended for the day it can take place on Sunday morning.
The last time this happened was in Austin in 2015 when heavy rain caused a series of delays not unlike today's.
It would be the fifth time qualifying has taken place on the Sunday before the race after Japan 2004, Japan 2010, Australia 2013 and Austin two years ago.
Image source, Getty Imagesget involved Get Involved - Any chance of racing?published at 14:51 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
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Derek Hall: Does the fia not realise that 10 F1 cars running around for 3 laps would lift enough water
Steve Henderson: I take it the weather conditions are not to severe for helicopter emergency flying? Is this taken into consideration? Just wondered
Julian Hutchings: We have bets going on at work now, what finishes first? Our shift or qualifying?
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This amused me.
Session delayed, etcpublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
More info at 16:00 local, 15:00 BST.
Sir Jackie on manoeuvrespublished at 14:46 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
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End of twitter postget involved Get Involvedpublished at 14:42 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
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Lauda on rain delaypublished at 14:37 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Mercedes team boss Niki Lauda, speaking to Sky Sports: "The weather doesn't look like it will improve. This is a difficult afternoon for all the drivers and all the teams. I would rather wait until tomorrow and have a dry qualifying and dry race.
"Mercedes need to have a one-two tomorrow because in Singapore we will lose for sure."
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get involved Get Involved - Rain, rain, rainpublished at 14:32 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
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PhilSlocombe: Prost is absolutely right; shame on those people who want to drivers risk their lives for their to satisfy their voyeurism
Andy Roberts: Just get on with it! Drive according to the conditions, if too wet slow down a bit! Not difficult!
Quixoticgeek: To the people claiming their car can drive in the rain, why can't F1 cars? Do their cars do 300+kph in the rain? Really?
Image source, EPAPostpublished at 14:31 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer in MonzaBelting it down again. Don't think the news at 14:30 is going to be good...
It wasn't.
Further update in 15 minutespublished at 14:30 British Summer Time 2 September 2017
Ironic cheers and applause from the soggy grandstands.
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One minute until we hear those fateful words....
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