RACE REPORT
The top six as well as seventh-placed Felipe
Massa of Williams all stayed in their garages for the
final runs and it was left to the rest to tussle over the
remaining Top 10 spots.
And it was Jenson Button who did the most to
claim one of those spots. The Briton, who would
become just the third man in F1 history to start his
300th grand prix, jumped from P11 to P8 to seal a
Q3 berth ahead of Hulkenberg and Perez. All of the
top 10 in Q2 set their fastest time on soft tyres, so
they will start the race on that compound.
Out then, from P11 bac
Grosjean, Gutierrez, Magn
Mercedes were again
final top 10 shootout but R
himself by making a mistak
would see him fifth after th
Hamilton though was fi
and at the end of his first r
time of 1:32.850 to claim p
was almost six tenths clea
Verstappen, with Ricciardo