article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton was four-hundredths of a second ahead of Lewis Hamilton Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg –
article_snippet.sent: his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg will start second.
article_snippet.sent: Lewis Hamilton will start ahead of his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg .
article_snippet.sent: Jenson Button will start 17th and Fernando Alonso 18th.
article_snippet.sent: Jenson Button Jenson Button said: 'The car didn't feel bad so it's interesting when you find a good balance but the lap time is not there.
article_snippet.sent: We've made good improvements this weekend, but qualifying just wasn't for We. '
article_snippet.sent: Hopefully We'll be racing the cars in front tomorrow, but We hoped to be competing with the cars in qualifying as well.'
article_snippet.sent: Sebastian Vettel qualified third but could threaten Rosberg's supremacy with the Ferrari stronger than Mercedes over a long run .
article_snippet.sent: Sebastian Vettel starts ahead of Williams pair Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas, with Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen down in sixth place as Sebastian Vettel struggled in Q3, with Sebastian Vettel best lap in Q2.
article_snippet.sent: Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was seventh quickest ahead of the Lotus of Romain Grosjean, with Sauber pair Felipe Nasr and Marcus Ericsson performing superbly to claim ninth and 10th.
article_snippet.sent: Pastor Maldonado lines up 11th, missing out on a place in the top 10 by seven thousandths of a second, with Daniil Kvyat a surprisingly lowly and disappointing 12th in Pastor Maldonado Red Bull.
article_snippet.sent: Jenson Button out-qualified Fernando Alonso for the second consecutive race, but will only start 17th for McLaren .
article_snippet.sent: Fernando Alonso starts 18th in Shanghai and will have the Manor cars of Will Stevens and Roberto Merhi for company at the back of the grid .
article_snippet.sent: Toro Rosso rookies Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz Jr
article_snippet.sent: start 13th and 14th, with Sergio Perez 15th in a Force India that is off the pace as the team's financial issues means the team will not have the team new car on the grid until June.
article_snippet.sent: From the initial 18-minute session, Force India's Nico Hulkenberg led the list of departees, finishing three tenths of a second behind team -mate Perez.
article_snippet.sent: For the first time this season Manor had both cars taking part in qualifying, with both cars also comfortably finishing within the 107 per cent rule.
article_snippet.sent: The 23-year-old Briton will start 19th, eight tenths of a second ahead of Roberto Merhi, albeit three seconds behind Alonso, underlining that whilst Manor are fighting, Manor are fighting still have a lot of work to do.
highlights_snippet.sent: Nico Rosberg was just 0.042secs slower than Nico Rosberg Mercedes team-mate .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Sebastian Vettel will start third with Felipe Massa fourth...
highlights_snippet.sent: Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen complete third row .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: McLaren endured another difficult day with Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso only 17th and 18th on the grid .