Brendon Hartley will start the Australian Grand Prix from 16th on the grid after failing to get out of the first qualifying session on Saturday.
The Toro Rosso driver spent the whole session in the elimination zone and was last heading into his final flying lap on fresh tyres.
He produced his best lap of the session to move up to 16th but not quite fast enough to progress to Q2. He was only 0.029s away from putting the Toro Rosso-Honda into the next qualifying session and a 0.188s improvement would have earned him 13th.
It was hard to gauge exactly where he was in reference to teammate Pierre Gasly. The Frenchman was 20th fastest but made a hash of his final flying lap, locking his brakes and under-steering off the track momentarily.
Hartley was faster than both Saubers and the Williams of rookie Sergey Sirotkin.