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. The top four - Verstappen, Bottas, Hamilton and Leclerc - are a bit adrift of the rest.

  2. Bottom five with seven minutes to go - Grosjean, Magnussen, Raikkonen, Giovinazzi and Hulkenberg.

    Both Williams are looking good - Nicholas Latifi 13th, George Russell 14th.

  3. 'Hulkenberg has his seat'

    Jennie Gow
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    Racing Point did have Nico Hulkenberg's race seat ready to go - so he is in his own seat, which is good news.

    It was Lance that felt ill yesterday, didn't have a good night. He's not showing any Covid-19 symptoms, he tested negative pre-event and he's getting another test.

    They discussed it with Lance - and did leave it late - but that's why Nico is in the car now.

  4. Both Renaults in the top 10 - Ricciardo sixth, Ocon 10th - and both McLarens - Norris seventh, Sainz ninth.

  5. Max Verstappen top of the times with a 1:26.319. Charles Leclerc also nails a good one to go up to third. That's Verstappen, Hamilton, Leclerc and Bottas all through to Q2.

  6. Get Involved

    #bbcf1

    Rimal: Shouldn't the teams band together and have a pool of reserve drivers that attend all races? E.g Mercedes engined teams share 1-2 drivers, Ferrari teams share another, Red Bull / AT another?

    David Hardwick: Nicccco Huuuuuulkenberg!

  7. No messing about from the Mercedes pair. Lewis Hamilton with a 1:26.703, two tenths better than Valtteri Bottas.

  8. An early sighter from Nico Hulkenberg in his first F1 effort since August. He's three seconds worse off than everyone, with 13 minutes left to find the optimum racing line.

  9. As expected, Nico Hulkenberg is straight out there. All the others have the advantage of taking part in FP3, although both FP1 and FP2 yesterday were washouts.

  10. Here we go. Q1. Eighteen minutes, all 20 take part with the top 15 advancing and the bottom five sulking and moaning for the rest of the day.

  11. Risk of rain - 40%

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  13. Can Max split the Mercedes' pair? We'll find out soon.

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  14. 'Nice to finally get out there'

    Valtteri Bottas got his win last time out in Russia, albeit helped with Lewis Hamilton picking up a 10-second penalty.

    Bottas was quickest earlier today and another win tomorrow would breathe a bit of life into the title race, which looked done and dusted not so long ago.

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  15. Not long now. Qualifying gets going at 14:00 BST. What a great story it would be if Nico Hulkenberg gets himself out of Q1 after coming in from the cold.

    Not what he expected when he had his breakfast this morning.

  16. Unlucky, Stoffel

    Not to be for former McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne on this occasion. Call Of Duty it is. Still, in this crazy year, there will probably be more opportunities for a shock F1 return for the popular Belgian.

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  17. It's a strange situation for Nico Hulkenberg as he has no chance of driving next season for Racing Point (who will be known as Aston Martin) as Lance Stroll and Sebastian Vettel have already been named as their drivers for 2021.

    Maybe Hulkenberg could nudge one of the Haas guys out if he impresses. Alfa Romeo? Williams? Or another season on the bench waiting for late call-ups?

    Still, a third race weekend for the German, which he couldn't have expected at the start of 2020. He must have the biggest of smiles on his face.

  18. Some fans in Italy, but not in Turkey

    There was more news earlier this week regarding fans at two more races this season.

    Good news

    More than 13,000 spectators will be able to attend both days of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola in Italy over the weekend of 31 October and 1 November.

    But also some bad news

    Organisers of the Turkish Grand Prix have abandoned plans to invite fans to November's race because of Covid-19 after they had originally hoped to have a crowd of up to 100,000. A statement on Monday said the event at the Istanbul Park track on 13-15 November would be held without fans.

  19. Great news for the home fans - we've got up to 20,000 in the stands at Nurburgring after 30,000 at Russia last time out.

    The spectators got cold and wet yesterday, now they have a bonus German racer to cheer on.

    By the way, this race is known as the Eifel Grand Prix and not the 'German Grand Prix' as the Hockenheim promoters (where that race is usually staged) have the naming rights to that.

    Therefore, this race has the 'Efiel' tag to reflect the region of the country, similar to the Styrian Grand Prix in Austria back in race two

  20. The incredible...

    Time to dust down the old graphics.

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