Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.

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So, Lewis Hamilton is on pole after what you could call a disastrous qualifying session for Red Bull!

Webber manages to get round and post a time, but Vettel does not have one, so he drops to the bottom, where only Hulkenberg is below him by virtue of the Red Bull driver completing more laps than the Sauber man.

Top 10: Hamilton, Raikkonen, Alonso, Rosberg, Massa, Grosjean, Ricciardo, Button and Vettel and Hulkenberg.

Vettel ran wide at Turn 14 and aborted before coming into the pits. And it seems Button did likewise.

That's it! Over very quickly indeed and no one can match Hamilton! LEWIS HAMILTON CLAIMS POLE POSITION FOR THE CHINESE GRAND PRIX!

Hamilton's equal to it and takes over provisional pole with a 1m34.484!

The Finn sets a 1m34.761s to lay down the gauntlet to his rivals!

Raikkonen looks fast through sector one, Vettel less so.

The flag is out, but still no times have been set!

Here we go then, all 10 drivers are out on track and we're ready to find out who will sit on pole tomorrow!

Vettel and Button have opted for medium compound tyres.

With just three minutes remaining, Raikkonen breaks the silence, followed by Rosberg and Hamilton, for this one-lap shoot-out.

No other takers for the time being. It's going to be a busy final five minutes.

The Red Bull driver aborts his lap after being told to come in.

Vettel is out there quickly on some soft rubber.

There's no respite and we're green once again! Q3 under way!

Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton was the quickest once again. Can the Briton claim pole position in Shanghai?

Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Kimi Raikkonen, Jenson Button, Romain Grosjean, Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg will contest the final shoot-out.

Questions are going to be asked about Webber's issues there. He'll be unhappy about missing out on Q3.