After a forgettable weekend in Singapore, Mercedes bounced back in the best way possible by annexing the front row of the grid for the Japanese Grand Prix with Nico Rosberg set to start from pole and teammate Lewis Hamilton beside him – the session was cut short after Daniil Kvyat ploughed into the barriers just as they all filed out for their second runs in Q3. Rosberg seemed to have the edge all day over Hamilton and in his first run popped a 1:32.584 which in the end was only seven hundredth of a second up on his world championship teammate, who made a couple of telling mistakes on his first flying lap. The scene was thus set for an interesting pole shootout between the Silver...
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