Lewis Hamilton's late flyer in the third and final segment of qualifying for the British Grand Prix at Silverstone secured Mercedes's fifth pole position out of eight Formula 1 race weekends this season.
Hamilton was tailed by teammate Nico Rosberg whose provisional pole position time the 2008 world champion beat by 0.452 seconds.
A further 0.152 and 0.161 seconds behind in third and fourth place in the classification were the Red Bull Racing drivers Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.
Early championship challengers to Vettel's crown Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso had a subdued qualifying session, taking ninth and tenth place on the starting grid.
Also grabbing the headlines in qualifying on the 5.901 km long circuit was Force India's Paul Di Resta who set the fifth fastest time.
Di Resta was trailed by the impressive Toro Rosso driver Daniel Ricciardo and his teammate Adrian Sutil.
Romain Grosjean placed ahead of Lotus F1 teammate Raikkonen in eighth.
Classification
Unofficial classification:
1) Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – 1:29.607
2) Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) – 1:30.059
3) Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull-Renault) – 1:30.211
4) Mark Webber (Red Bull-Renault) – 1:30.220
5) Paul Di Resta (Force India-Mercedes) – 1:30.736
6) Daniel Ricciardo (Ferrari) – 1:30.757
7) Adrian Sutil (Force India-Mercedes) – 1:30.908
8) Romain Grosjean (Lotus-Renault) – 1:30.955
9) Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus-Renault) – 1:30.962
10) Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) – 1:30.979
11) Jenson Button (McLaren) – 1:31.649 (Q2)
12) Felipe Massa (Ferrari) – 1:31.779 (Q2)
13) Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso-Ferrari) – 1:31.785 (Q2)
14) Sergio Perez (McLaren-Mercedes) – 1:32.082 (Q2)
15) Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber-Ferrari) – 1:32.211 (Q2)
16) Pastor Maldonado (Williams-Renault) – 1:32.359 (Q2)
17) Valtteri Bottas (Williams-Renault) – 1:32.664 (Q1)
18) Esteban Gutierrez (Sauber-Ferrari) – 1:32.666 (Q1)
19) Charles Pic (Caterham-Renault) – 1:33.866 (Q1)
20) Jules Bianchi (Marussia-Cosworth) – 1:34.108 (Q1)
21) Giedo van der Garde (Caterham-Renault) – 1:35.481 (Q1)
22) Max Chilton (Marussia-Cosworth) – 1:35.858 (Q1)
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