article_snippet: Lewis Hamilton finished with a lap of one minute 26.327secs, a staggering 0.6secs clear of Rosberg as Mercedes locked out the front row, with Williams' Felipe Massa the best of the rest, but 1.4secs down on the 30-year-old Briton.
article_snippet: even team-mate Nico Rosberg had an awful first sector, but was quicker than Lewis Hamilton in an awful first sector.
article_snippet: 6 Bottas wobbles out of the final corner, but even team-mate Nico Rosberg still does enough to qualify fourth and Lewis Hamilton is going even quicker...
article_snippet: Neither Rosberg nor Bottas have posted a time.
article_snippet: The Briton is some two tenths quicker than The Briton Mercedes team-mate.
article_snippet: It is Bottas up next, albeit over one second down on Hamilton.
article_snippet: a 1:30.402 which is good enough for P13... but what can the McLarens do?
article_snippet: But Rosberg, still on the medium compound tyres, pops in a 1:28.906 to go fastest.
article_snippet: So, with eight minutes to go in Q1, Vettel leads from Bottas, Raikkonen, Hamilton, Massa, Rosberg, Hulkenberg, Verstappen, Grosjean and Perez.
article_snippet: Rosberg, on the medium compound - remember Ferrari are on the softer, quicker compound - goes fourth, a second slower than Vettel.
article_snippet: and it is Kimi Raikkonen with a 1:30.188 who goes easily fastest.
article_snippet: And Kimi Raikkonen new Ferrari team-mate, the four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel, is even quicker.
article_snippet: The non-McLaren pair, hampered by reliability problems to reliability problems new Honda engine, managed only 13 laps between reliability problems in Friday’s opening session and were five seconds down on Rosberg’s best time for Mercedes.
article_snippet: And they, along with the Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat, were slowest again this morning.
article_snippet: Lewis Hamilton ended both practice sessions behind Rosberg yesterday, but The Briton was back on top this morning.
article_snippet: Lewis Hamilton was almost one second clear of Vettel in third.
highlights_snippet: Lewis Hamilton was over half-a-second quicker than Nico Rosberg in qualifying .
  