Summary

  • Hamilton takes sixth pole at Spa, Bottas 2nd, Verstappen 3rd

  • Ferraris out in second session, Verstappen could spring surprise

  • Get involved #bbcf1

Live Reporting

Michael Emons

  1. Is the rain coming? Maybe. Looking miserable overhead.

  2. 'Headache'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    Headache for Racing Point, they're just not quick enough on the medium tyre, so they'll have to switch to the softs.

    They are going to have to find a good three tenths improvement to get themselves into the top 10.

  3. Just over seven minutes to go and the bottom five as it stands are Lance Stroll, Sergio Perez, Sebastian Vettel, Charles Leclerc and George Russell.

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    John Wilkinson: I wonder if Carlos Sainz Jr has a clause in his contract - similar to Lionel Messi for FC Barcelona - to get out of driving for Ferrari next year. If he doesn’t, I can’t help thinking he’d like one.

    R Whittle: I’d love to see Russell in a more competitive car.

  5. Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc are 13th and 14th with no time for Russell so far

    If you're a glass half full person you will say it's better for Ferrari than it could've been. If you're a glass half empty person you will be wondering just how Ferrari are seven tenths slower than the Alpha Tauri of Daniil Kvyat in 10th.

  6. Hamilton top with a 1:42.014, then comes Bottas +0.112, then Verstappen +0.459.

  7. 'Bizarre set of circumstances'

    Jack Nicholls
    BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator

    Ferrari were on pole position and won the race last year and here we are, a year later. Things have not gone well.

    All because of an engine change that obviously they said didn't do anything. It's a bizarre set of circumstances.

  8. Hamilton, Bottas and Verstappen are all on the mediums.

  9. Q2 - 15 minutes with the fastest 10 moving on.

    The tyre you set your best time on in this section is the one you start the race on.

    It can prove to be the difference between glory and missing out. Max Verstappen and Red Bull produced a stroke of genius in the second race at Silverstone as their tyre choice in qualifying played a massive part in him then winning the race.

  10. Team radio - Leclerc

    "It's a fine line between traffic and tow."

  11. The clouds overhead are getting darker. Remember, chance of rain is rated at 40%.

    Ferrari will be still performing a rain dance.

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    Russell through to Q2 along with Ferrari

    Josh Earl: George Russell delivers again!

    Phil: Ferarri might have survived Q1 but unlikely to be top 10 in Q2.

  13. Into Q2

    1. Hamilton
    2. Bottas
    3. Verstappen
    4. Gasly
    5. Stroll
    6. Kvyat
    7. Ricciardo
    8. Sainz
    9. Perez
    10. Albon
    11. Ocon
    12. Norris
    13. Vettel
    14. Russell
    15. Leclerc

  14. 'Great job'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    That's a classic from George Russell. He is good at pulling these laps out and he got himself ahead of Charles Leclerc in that one. Great job.

  15. Team radio - Russell

    "Woo! Nice... I was not expecting that."

  16. Out in Q1

    • 16th Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo)
    • 17th Romain Grosjean (Haas)
    • 18th Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo)
    • 19th Nicholas Latifi (Williams)
    • 20th Kevin Magnussen (Haas)

  17. Both Ferraris scrape into Q2 only just - with Vettel 13th and Leclerc 15th. George Russell is in the middle.

    There was a late yellow flag after Magnussen went into the gravel and that may well have saved the Ferrari two.

  18. Vettel faster than Leclerc, who is now in trouble.

  19. Leclerc goes 12th, but is the first to finish of those still to go.

  20. Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    They all want the slipstream. No one wants to be the car that's punching the hole through the air for everyone else to have a better straight line speed.