Pit Lane F1
Round 15 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2014-10-05
Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) took pole for the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix with a 1:32.506 lap.
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) joined the front row, 0.197s shy of pole, with Valtteri Bottas (Williams) third on the grid. Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Jean-Éric Vergne (Toro Rosso) missed the cut by 0.436s.
Q3 was settled inside 2.042s — pole to P10 — with Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:33.671 | 1:32.950 | 1:32.506 | 1:32.506 |
| 2 | 44Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:33.611 | 1:32.982 | 1:32.703 | +0.197 |
| 3 | 77Valtteri Bottas | Williams | 1:34.301 | 1:33.443 | 1:33.128 | +0.622 |
| 4 |
| 19Felipe Massa |
| Williams |
| 1:34.483 |
| 1:33.551 |
| 1:33.527 |
| +1.021 |
| 5 | 14Fernando Alonso | Ferrari | 1:34.497 | 1:33.675 | 1:33.740 | +1.234 |
| 6 | 3Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | 1:35.593 | 1:34.466 | 1:34.075 | +1.569 |
| 7 | 20Kevin Magnussen | McLaren | 1:34.930 | 1:34.229 | 1:34.242 | +1.736 |
| 8 | 22Jenson Button | McLaren | 1:35.150 | 1:34.648 | 1:34.317 | +1.811 |
| 9 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Red Bull | 1:35.517 | 1:34.784 | 1:34.432 | +1.926 |
| 10 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:34.984 | 1:34.771 | 1:34.548 | +2.042 |
| 11 | 25Jean-Éric Vergne | Toro Rosso | 1:35.155 | 1:34.984 | — | +2.478 |
| 12 | 11Sergio Pérez | Force India | 1:35.439 | 1:35.089 | — | +2.583 |
| 13 | 26Daniil Kvyat | Toro Rosso | 1:35.210 | 1:35.092 | — | +2.586 |
| 14 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Force India | 1:35.000 | 1:35.099 | — | +2.593 |
| 15 | 99Adrian Sutil | Sauber | 1:35.736 | 1:35.364 | — | +2.858 |
| 16 | 21Esteban Gutiérrez | Sauber | 1:35.308 | 1:35.681 | — | +3.175 |
| 17 | 13Pastor Maldonado | Lotus F1 | 1:35.917 | — | — | +3.411 |
| 18 | 8Romain Grosjean | Lotus F1 | 1:35.984 | — | — | +3.478 |
| 19 | 9Marcus Ericsson | Caterham | 1:36.813 | — | — | +4.307 |
| 20 | 17Jules Bianchi | Marussia | 1:36.943 | — | — | +4.437 |
| 21 | 10Kamui Kobayashi | Caterham | 1:37.015 | — | — | +4.509 |
| 22 | 4Max Chilton | Marussia | 1:37.481 | — | — | +4.975 |