Qualifying for Sunday's British Grand Prix began in wet conditions, with light rain dampening the 5.891-kilometer18-turn track enough that teams used the intermediate tyre throughout Q1.
Drivers tiptoed on the wet surface as traction was hard to come by.
HaasF1 driver Romain Grosjean eked his way into Q2 by securing the 15th fastest time with a 1:42.042.
The rain abated in Q2, allowing the track to dry enough for a return to slicks and Grosjean's VF-17 was fitted with the supersoft rubber and he used them to secure the ninth-fastest time with a lap of 1:29.966.
The lap put Grosjean into Q3 for the second straight race and the fifth time this season.
Grosjean's Q3 time was a 1:29.549, which placed him 10th. An attempt to better that time ended when Grosjean was held up by eventual pole winner Lewis Hamilton.
Grosjean lost three-tenths of a second to the Mercedes driver and the matter was referred to the FIA race stewards for investigation.
Ultimately, the stewards determined Hamilton caused no infraction.
“I'm not totally happy with P10. The first run in Q3, I got completely blocked by Lewis Hamilton on the last corner losing me at good three-tenths,” he said. “It cost me a least one position. With the second run I thought it was going to be fine, but I got to turn three and out of the blue I had massive rear-lock, so I lost almost half a second."
" made it back over the lap, so I think we had much more performance than we were showing. I'm very unhappy with my first attempt being completely ruined at the last corner. Apart from all that, we were doing okay and doing a good job. It's great to be in Q3 but there could've been so much more, so I'm a bit disappointed.”
