Hello and welcome to our live coverage of qualifying for Sunday's season-opening Australian Grand Prix!

Thanks for joining us today. We'll be back with the race on Sunday - it promises to be a corker so join us again then.

Schumacher, Webber, Vettel, Rosberg, Maldonado, Hulkenberg and Ricciardo complete the top 10.

It's a McLaren one-two on the front row with Grosjean a surprising third on the grid!

Schumacher goes second before Grosjean displaces him! But Button trumps them both to take the front row place behind McLaren team-mate Hamilton! Vettel can only manage sixth!

Rosberg locks up at turn 3, sending a cloud of smoke into the air as the chequered flag comes out!

Vettel will however do one more lap...

Webber is down after the first sector and he has ground to make up in the next two... and Hamilton remains untouched by the Australian! Webber does however, knock Red Bull team-mate off the front row!

It's all about saving tyres for tomorrow's race.

Webber heads out with five minutes left and it looks like the Aussie is just going to complete one lap.

Vettel then goes into second, but still Hamilton is on provisional pole with that time of 1:24.922!

Hamilton goes top before Button fails to match him. Schumacher soon splits them.

Schumacher joins Rosberg on track as the German posts a 1:25.847.

Rosberg heads out and immediately zigzags across the track to heat his tyres up.

Here we go then! The final 10 minutes of qualifying the Australian Grand Prix! We are green!

Here we go then! The final 10 minutes of qualifying the Australian Grand Prix! We are green!

It's a disappointing day for Ferrari, for sure. Australia, on the other hand, with Webber and Ricciardo to start Sunday's race in the top 10, is having a cracking day so far.

And competing the top-10 shootout will be: Rosberg, who paced Q2, Schumacher, Hamilton, Button, Grosjean, Vettel, Maldonado, Webber, Hulkenberg and Ricciardo.

So, the two Ferraris go out! Here's the complete list from 11th down: Vergne, Alonso, Kobayashi, Senna, Massa and Perez.

Kobayashi can only manage 12th best, but Alonso is dumped out with Ricciardo and Hulkenberg making it through!

Kobayashi is flying - and Alonso must be sweating.