Ahead of today's qualifying session, the air temperature is 30 degrees C, while the track temperature is 36 degrees. Though bright, Race Control claims there is a 40% chance of rain. Sebastian Vettel topped the timesheets in FP3 earlier - posting the fastest lap ever seen here - but in all fairness most of his rivals failed to get a qualifying run as a result of the red flag that followed Lance Stroll's crash. That said, it was unlikely that the German's 1:23.380 lap - the fastest ever seen here - would have been threatened, with the Mercedes duo both over 0.47s off the pace - Valtteri Bottas out-pacing his illustrious teammate Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen was fourth ahead of the...
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