F1 Chinese Grand Prix LIVE: Qualifying updates in Shanghai as Max Verstappen claims Red Bull’s 100th pole

Verstappen has gone top, and 0.6 seconds faster than Norris in second, Russell is in third after his flying lap.

Lewis Hamilton has been interviewed after finishing 18th: “Struggled, I couldn’t get it going to start with into turn 14. This morning, George and I had very similar cars, but this afternoon I went a long way one way and he went the other way. It didn’t work.

“I’ll give it my best shot, 18th is pretty bad. When I was making the set up changes I thought ‘it can’t get any worse’, but it did”

Russell was the first one out after that delay, he has yet to post a time so he will want as much time as possible to do so.

The teams are back out on track for the final 6 minutes and 44 seconds of qualifying after that Carlos Sainz incident.

Mercedes made changes to help improve the car in low and mid-speed corners between sprint and qualifying, did that affect the lock up that caused Hamilton to run wide and finish in 18th place?

Carlos Sainz might have massively got away with one there as it looks like the front wing absorbed most of the impact. He had to make his way back to the pits without one, but it remains to be seen how severe the damage is.

While Sainz crawls his way back to the pits, but it remains to be seen if he will be able to get his car up and running again.

Sainz was well wide there. There is a red flag with 6 minutes 44 seconds left in Q2. But somehow Sainz has restarted the engine and got his car going again.

There is no front wing however as he makes his way back around the track to the pits

Carlos Sainz has spun out! He was coming out of the final turn and this has been red-flagged.

Sainz is out of qualifying. He looks good, but just went too wide into the final corner and into the gravel.

Norris goes top, ahead of his teammate, but Verstappen has just overtaken everyone and is half a second clear of the British driver at the top of the standings.