Hamilton edges out Rosberg for home pole

Lewis Hamilton edged out team-mate Nico Rosberg to take pole position for the British Grand Prix for the third time in his career.

The championship leader delivered an impressive lap of 1:32.248 on his first run in Q3 to sit 0.113s quicker than Rosberg in a straight fight for pole at Silverstone. With neither driver improving on their second attempts, Hamilton secured his eighth pole position of the season at his home grand prix and moved up to outright third in the all-time list behind Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna.

Rosberg complained of a lack of front grip on his final run but there was a lack of significant improvement throughout the field. One driver to improve was Felipe Massa who beat team-mate Valtteri Bottas to third place, with Williams locking out the second row ahead of Ferrari.

Kimi Raikkonen will start from fifth ahead of Sebastian Vettel, as the German has struggled with his Ferrari in high speed corners throughout the weekend so far, most notably running wide at Copse on numerous occasions.

Copse was the focus of the stewards' attentions throughout the session as drivers had their times deleted if they went off track with all four wheels. Daniel Ricciardo was the only driver to suffer in Q3, with his final time erased which dropped him from seventh to tenth place.

Daniil Kvyat was promoted to seventh as a result ahead of his team-mate's error, with Carlos Sainz eighth and Nico Hulkenberg ninth in the updated Force India.

Raikkonen almost fell foul of the clampdown on track limits in Q2 as Ferrari opted for one run in the second part of qualifying. Raikkonen's first lap saw his best time deleted and he could only go ninth on a final attempt but saw nobody else go above him.

While Sainz scraped through in P10, Max Verstappen dropped out in 13th place despite Toro Rosso looking quick through the weekend. The Dutch rookie complained of a lack of grid, saying the feeling was "totally different to practice".

Also dropping out in Q2 were Sergio Perez - who was 11th even before his best time was deleted for exceeding track limits - Romain Grosjean, Pastor Maldonado and Marcus Ericsson.

McLaren's woes continued as both drivers dropped out in Q1, with only the two Manor drivers slower. Fernando Alonso was close to making it through but ended up less than 0.1s away from a spot in the second part of qualifying. It was even closer for Felipe Nasr, who dropped out by just 0.011s on his final attempt.

Jenson Button was 0.3s adrift of his team-mate in 18th place and both McLarens will start from the penultimate row, while Will Stevens starts one place behind his fellow Brit having outqualified team-mate Roberto Merhi by two seconds as the Spaniard had his best time deleted.

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