Pos	Driver	Car	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:17.633	1:17.166	1:16.173
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:17.674	1:17.111	1:16.213
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:17.031	1:16.802	1:16.305
4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:17.483	1:17.071	1:16.612
5	DH Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1:17.411	1:17.266	1:16.816
6	Smiley Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	1:17.623	1:17.638	1:16.818
7	DP Magnussen	Haas Ferrari	1:18.169	1:17.618	1:17.676
8	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Renault	1:18.276	1:18.100	1:17.721
9	Carlos Sainz	Renault	1:18.480	1:17.803	1:17.790
10	Lettuce Grosjean	Haas Ferrari	1:18.305	1:17.699	1:17.835
11	Stoffelwaffle	McLaren Renault	1:18.885	1:18.323
12	Pierre Ghastly	Toro Rosso Honda	1:18.550	1:18.463
13	False Esteban!	Force India Mercedes	1:18.813	1:18.696
14	Charles AMX-30	Sauber Ferrari	1:18.661	1:18.910
15	Sergio Perez	Force India Mercedes	1:18.740	1:19.098
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1:18.923
17	Sony Ericsson	Sauber Ferrari	1:19.493
18	Sergey,  Sir Otkin	Williams Mercedes	1:19.695
19	Pleasant Stroll	Williams Mercedes	1:20.225

You'll note only 19 cars listed.  The 20th, Brendan Hartley's Toro Rosso, had a unfortunate vehicle/barrier interface right at the end of Practice 3 and the team could not get the car back together in time for Quals.

To be fair, the rear of the car was still attached until the workers picked it up.  THEN it fell off.

I'm not entirely sure how the two Mercs ended up on the front row, since at no time during the practice sessions or the other two Qualy periods did they look faster than the Ferraris.  Well, that and my DVR timed out with two minutes left in the session.  Apparently ESPN does not designate Formula 1 as "sports", thus not activating the automatic "extra hour" mode on my DVR.  Anyway, I've not seen the final runs of Q3 because of that.  I'm not gonna go out of my way to find 'em, either.  I'm grumpy that way.

So, an interesting grid for Sunday's race... let's see how it goes!

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