Lewis Hamilton scooped his third pole position of three races this year, with just four hundredths of a second between his pole winning time and that of Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg. The real fight in the top ten came for third place, with both Williams drivers scrapping for position but ending up missing out to Sebastian Vettel.

At the other end of the field, the McLaren drivers were even closer, with just four thousandths of a second between them - but both dropped out in Q1. Manor were also well off the pace, but squeezed inside the 107% cut off to guarantee a spot on the grid for both drivers. Ahead of them, Force India were disappointed to only get one driver into Q2, and even then Sergio Pérez couldn't make any impact on the second session.