Spanish Grand Prix 2017 Qualifying Live Score Race Updates

🏁 TOP TEN: END OF QUALIFYING 🏁

1 HAM 📸
2 VET
3 BOT
4 RAI
5 VER
6 RIC
7 ALO
8 PER
9 MAS
10 OCO#SpanishGP 🇪🇸 #Quali pic.twitter.com/DzwzihwSV5
— Formula 1 (@F1) May 13, 2017

Fernando Alonso HAS to be the driver of the day - finishing in P7 for the race tomorrow!

It'll be LEWIS HAMILTON on pole - but Vettel is 51/100ths of a second behind in P2! Valtteri Bottas rounds up P3 for tomorrow's race but for now it's a Mercedes-Ferrari front row!

Alonso is currently in P7 - and it's over in Q3! WAITING FOR POLE!

Alonso's out on track and WHAT a tremendous effort! Final two minutes and ALO is the first onto a flying lap!

Ole!! @alo_oficial He's my hero. #F1
— Damon Hill (@HillF1) May 13, 2017

Vettel is in P4 and having some sort of power problem - not a major one, but not ideal if VET is to extend his championship lead!

Lost a bit of speed there with a bounce over the kerb did Bottas. HAM BOT ...and Raikkonen 3/100ths of a second ahead of Vettel in P3!

BOTTAS TOPS -----and then Hamilton gets ahead with a bounce from the Finn!

BOT starts off his lap - he's won his first ever GP last race in Sochi and has momentum behind him!

Q3 UNDERWAY!

Alonso is a deserving champion and then some. After repeated DNFs, DNS, and that horrendous showing from the car in FP1, the racer till the end keeps his morale up.

Also, HOW GOOD is Fernando Alonso? Brilliant stuff from the former champion to push a struggling McLaren-Honda into Q3. Solid effort doesn't even begin to cover what he just did, despite McLaren having NO pace on the straights.

We now have our top 10 . But who'll be on POLE?

Romain Grosjean almost had Q3 - and absolutely messes up that turn! He's gone somewhere we don't know, and that pushes Alonso into 7th...but wait, there's more.

But despite a first sector that McLaren-Honda cars might struggle with, ALONSO IS IN Q3!!!

Just under 3 minutes to go and Grosjean, Massa, Hulkenberg, Perez and Wehrlein all in the drop zone. Alonso hanging on in 10th by 0.007 of a second.

HAM VET BOT RAI VER RIC SAI OCO MAG ALO top 10 for now!

But let's look at the top of the grid - Mercedes - Ferrari split and it's INSANE. Hundredths of a second close to each other. HAM leads, VET + 0.085, BOT + 0.090.

That's how close.

Red Bull have quite the team! Verstappen up 0.133 on teammate Ricciardo.

HAM BOT RAI at the moment - 1:20.210 HAM, +0.090 for BOT, and +0.411 for RAI. Hulkenberg now out on track as Renault look to set a better lap. Fans still awaiting Vettel with bated breath!

RAIKKONEN: "Last chicane at the corner was bad."

Considering he might have to use those tyres for his race start, that lock-up wasn't great!

Hamilton and Raikkonen on simultaneous laps - might as well be simulating a race!

Woah that was wide! Bottas snags and runs out wide - no issues with tires but that wasn't the greatest...

Q2 underway and Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton are out on track!

A sterling effort from Felipe Massa and from Pascal Wehrlein - who gets his Sauber through to Q2!

End of Q1 - Stroll, Vandoorne, Kvyat, Ericsson out! #SpanishGP
— Anuradha Santhanam (@anumccartney) May 13, 2017

That's the end of Q1!

Grosjean moves up into P7 ahead of Checo Perez of Force India as teammate Kevin Magnussen also makes it through! P7 and P8.

IN THE DROP ZONE: Romain Grosjean (HAAS), Lance Stroll (WILLIAMS), Jolyon Palmer (RENAULT), Kevin Magnussen and Daniil Kvyat!

TYRE UPDATE: Every single driver is on softs. Every single one. Makes you think Pirelli made a mistake making hards available this weekend - not really going to be used much, I reckon.

"All fine with the car" say Scuderia Ferrari engineers over the radio. What a relief!

REMINDER for all of you: Vettel had an engine change, and initially had been asked to box - but stays out to set the top time..for now, as both Mercedes drivers are out on track. Bottas now in P2 behind VET...but HAM is just about half a second faster.

Haas F1's Romain Grosjean spins out at the final chicane. The Frenchman's troubles with braking continue and then some.

Vettel is asked to box box box, but he doesn't - and now it's worked! He continues to stay out on track.

""STOP THE CAR, STOP THE CAR NOW!" say Ferrari to Sebastian Vettel. Oh no...

McLaren's Stoffel Vandoorne first out on track and Sebastian Vettel follows early on!

Q1 is underway!

Home race for Fernando Alonso of the struggling McLaren. P1 was so bad the car failed midway through Lap 1 for the 2-time World Champion - what we know is that it was a rear axle failure. That lead to a LOT ...and we mean a LOT of oil leaking out onto the track - and McLaren WILL have penalties for the next race.

In Monaco.

Taken on by Jenson Button instead as ALO drives the Indy 500.

Live at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya - some lovely lovely weather and if we weren't watching the race we kind of envy the people in the pristine blue waters!