Summary

  • Bottas on pole, Hamilton 2nd, Verstappen 3rd

  • Hulkenberg replaces unwell Stroll for Racing Point

  • Race taking place at the Nurburgring in Germany

  • Get involved using #bbcf1

Live Reporting

Michael Emons

  1. Daniel Ricciardo jumps quicker than the Red Bull of Alexander Albon and the Australian is fourth. Esteban Ocon is currently in the top 10 as are both McLarens.

  2. Valtteri Bottas secures his qualification, although Lewis Hamilton, who has gone on the softs, moves to the top.

    So Hamilton, Verstappen and Bottas will all be on the softs tomorrow.

    Everyone who tried on the mediums has had to move on to the softs. Worth a try, but soft tyres everywhere. Sebastian Vettel is 11th and needing to improve with two minutes to go.

  3. Better from Alexander Albon in this session as he is currently third. Lando Norris again superb. Fourth so far with five and a half minutes to go.

  4. Bottas jumps on to the softs so it may well be him on the softs and Lewis Hamilton on the mediums when we start tomorrow.

  5. 'Stroll must be quite ill'

    Andrew Benson
    BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

    We don't know what is wrong with Lance Stroll - Racing Point wont tell us - but usually, you have to be pretty ill as a Formula 1 driver not to drive an F1 car.

    Think back to Germany last year, Hamilton was quite poorly and put the car on pole, in Japan 2007 Mark Webber was sick in his helmet and carried on, then Fernando Alonso in Malaysia in 2003 asked for a doctor at the end and still finished second.

    Lance Stroll must be quite ill for him not to be taking part this weekend - unless he's got some. sort of dizziness or balance kind of issue like Felipe Massa had a couple of years ago.

  6. Charles Leclerc ninth, Daniel Ricciardo 10th and Sebastian Vettel 11th are all on the mediums. Eight and a half minutes to go.

  7. The medium tyre gamble looks to have worked for Lewis Hamilton, who is second behind Max Verstappen on the softs. But Valtteri Bottas, also on the mediums, may feel he has to go again as he's eighth, 1.2 seconds off the top and maybe getting a bit nervous.

  8. Q2 is under way - 15 remain.

    As always, a quick reminder that the tyre you set your best time on (if you get in the top 10) in this section is the tyre you begin the race on.

    Both Mercedes, both Ferraris and the Renault of Daniel Ricciardo are trying their luck on the mediums.

    Top 10 advance into the shootout for pole.

  9. 'Scruffy lap'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    It's all a learning process for Hulkenberg and unfortunately it was just a bit of a scruffy lap.

    I think he under-drove in some areas the lap, then the only option is to just push like mad and then that ends up being a bit over-driving and scruffy.

    Four flying laps is just so hard to get the most out of it.

  10. Moving on...

    At the top of Q1 - Verstappen, Bottas, Hamilton, Norris, Ricciardo, Leclerc, Gasly, Ocon, Vettel, Perez, Albon, Magnussen, Kvyat, Sainz and Grosjean.

    Great stuff from Lando Norris.

    Not so great from Alexander Albon.

  11. Out in Q1

    • 16th Romain Grosjean (Haas)
    • 17th George Russell (Williams)
    • 18th Nicholas Latifi (Williams)
    • 19th Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo)
    • 20th Nico Hulkenberg (Racing Point)

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    quixoticgeek: Is the 2020 season showing us how great the older circuits are, or just how poor some of the modern ones have become?

    Philip West: Get this track back onto the F1 calendar permanently, please. It’s a great circuit, and miles better than many of the soulless facilities that Grand Prix cars race at nowadays.

    Andy Flowers: Whoever goes fastest on the slowest tyre this race should win a one off trophy called The Eifel Tyre.

    Boom boom!

  13. Grosjean out and Russell too in Q1.

  14. Hulkenberg out in Q1 and will start last. It was always the toughest of asks.

  15. Latifi out in Q1.

  16. Raikkonen out in Q1.

  17. 'Hulkenberg looking under the limit'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    Racing Point have given Nico Hulkenberg the chance of another run. He looked a bit under the limit at Turns 10 and 11. He's obviously not quite up to speed - very understandably - but he just looks slightly passive through those fast corners.

  18. Nico Hulkenberg improves and is quickly competitive. He's up to 19th. One last chance to haul himself into an unlikely Q2. He needs to find five tenths at least.

  19. 'Hulkenberg can use Perez's data'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    Nico Hulkenberg can look at Sergio Perez's data - even Perez's data from practice earlier - and think 'OK, I need a gear up here' or 'I need to break a little bit later there' and basically coach himself based on Perez's time earlier on - which are more competitive then they are now.

  20. Bizarrely, Sergio Perez went out on the mediums with everyone else on the softs on their first runs.