Team Summary:
After a difficult practice leading up to qualifying the Williams Martini team was facing the prospect having a very difficult qualifying. With the start of the first eighteen minute period drivers would start to come out all on the ultra soft tyre. Raikkonen would set a 1m:44.060 to go quickest. Vettel was now second followed by Sainz and Kvyat. Everyone was out on the track with quite a few drivers on their timed laps. Vandoorne would go quickest with Raikkonen second and Alonso now third. At the front Ricciardo would go quickest followed by Verstappen and now Vettel. Perez was fourth followed by Ocon and Vandoorne.

Hamilton would move into second and Bottas now fourth. But Verstappen would go quickest with a 1m:42.010 followed by Ricciardo and Hamilton. With two minutes remaining the Williams drivers were in nineteenth and twentieth. At the front Alonso would go third followed by Sainz and Vandoorne. Hamilton was sixth followed by Palmer, Kvyat, Hulkenberg and Bottas tenth. Both Williams cars were out of qualifying. Both cars would make contact with the wall at different times not helping their efforts.

After two runs in the second period the final ten cars would be Verstappen, Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Vettel, Hamilton, Vandoorne, Hulkenberg, Bottas, Alonso and Sainz tenth. Verstappen had set a 1m:40.332 with Ricciardo a 1m:40.385. It was incredibly close at the front as the top ten prepared for the final period. After their first runs it would be Vettel quickest with a 1m:39.669 followed by Verstappen and Ricciardo. Hamilton was fifth followed by Bottas, Alonso, Vandoorne, Hulkenberg and Sainz. After their second runs it would be Vettel who would retain his pole position with an improved 1m:39.491. Verstappen would remain second followed by Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Hamilton, Bottas, Hulkenberg, Alonso, Vandoorne and Sainz tenth. For the Williams team it is now time to regroup and see if they can achieve a result in a race that has seen unexpected results.

Felipe Massa:
Felipe would wait awhile before coming out also on new ultra soft tyres. Felipe would set a very slow 2m:03.020 having to abandon his first timed lap. But Felipe would have to pit with a broken right rear wheel having told the team that he had hit the wall. Felipe's car was able to return to the track for one final run to see if he could get out of Q1. Felipe was able to set a 1m:44.014 to be fifteenth but would drop to sixteenth. This would become seventeenth and out of qualifying.

Lance Stroll:
Lance would come out for the first period very early running on new ultra soft tyres. Lance would seta 1m:47.414 on his first lap which most likely see him drop down the order. Lance would pit after just two laps. He would get a new set of tyres and would return. Lance would not improve and would pit currently in seventeenth. With under four minutes remaining and Lance would come back out on another set of new ultra soft tyres. Lance would set a 1m:44.745 to be only eighteenth to join his team-mate out of qualifying.