Nico Rosberg breaks the streak of poles harvested by Lewis Hamilton at the Grand Prix of Spain and come out first ahead of his fellow Englishman. Sebastian Vettel will start third. Sainz gets a spectacular fifth place, Alonso will start thirteenth and Merhi gets the last position.
Green light to begin the classification of the Grand Prix of Spain at Montmelo circuit. The drivers were reluctant to leave until Merhi broke the silence and gradually more of them were on track although with different tyre choice.
Sainz was leading after the first few minutes, but the Mercedes fixed their mistakes in the first round and they would lead.
The McLaren came out directly with the softer tyres exploiting the little traffic on the track standing both fifth and sixth respectively.
In the absence of two minutes there were a lot of drivers on the track to try to improve his time. The checkered flag fell and were eliminated Ericsson, Hulkenberg, Perez, Stevens and Merhi. Both McLaren entered Q2, Hamilton was leading and Sainz was fourth.
Q2 began and there was a hurry to come out.
Rosberg put himself in front with 6/10 ahead sticking out his partner and Verstappen won Sainz the game. Everyone went to the pits to change tyres and the track was empty.
A lack of 2½ minutes drivers from sixth to the fifteenth went out on trackto see who will be eliminated in Q2.
The session ended and drivers in the area of removing failed to improve. Eliminated in Q2 were Grosjean, Maldonado, Alonso, Button and Nasr.
We reached the Q3 and again the drivers were expecting some minutes to go on track in the absence of 8 minutes. Hamilton came out on track and achieved a 1: 24.9 and then Rosberg got a lap down to 1: 24.6, achieving pole position, the first of the European phase.
Pole for Nico Rosberg breaking the streak of Lewis Hamilton, who is second and Vettel third. Carlos Sainz will start in fifth position ahead of Verstappen and important men as Raikkonen and Massa.
Results;
| Pos. | Car | Driver | Team | Laps | Lap Time | |
| 1 | 6 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 18 | 1:24,681 | |
| 2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 17 | 1:24,948 | |
| 3 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 15 | 1:25,458 | |
| 4 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Williams-Mercedes | 16 | 1:25,694 | |
| 5 | 55 | Carlos Sainz (R) | Toro Rosso-Renault | 17 | 1:26,136 | |
| 6 | 33 | Max Verstappen (R) | Toro Rosso-Renault | 20 | 1:26,249 | |
| 7 | 7 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 16 | 1:26,414 | |
| 8 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 16 | 1:26,629 | |
| 9 | 19 | Felipe Massa | Williams-Mercedes | 16 | 1:26,757 | |
| 10 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull Racing-Renault | 16 | 1:26,770 | |
| 11 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Lotus-Mercedes | 13 | 1:27,375 | |
| 12 | 13 | Pastor Maldonado | Lotus-Mercedes | 13 | 1:27,450 | |
| 13 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | McLaren-Honda | 11 | 1:27,760 | |
| 14 | 22 | Jenson Button | McLaren-Honda | 12 | 1:27,854 | |
| 15 | 12 | Felipe Nasr (R) | Sauber-Ferrari | 14 | 1:28,005 | |
| 16 | 9 | Marcus Ericsson | Sauber-Ferrari | 6 | 1:28,112 | |
| 17 | 27 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India-Mercedes | 6 | 1:28,677 | |
| 18 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Force India-Mercedes | 7 | 1:28,861 | |
| 19 | 28 | Will Stevens | Manor-Ferrari | 6 | 1:31,695 | |
| 20 | 98 | Roberto Merhi (R) | Manor-Ferrari | 4 | 1:32,038 | |