Right. Three minutes and 41 seconds to bank a lap. This would be the perfect time for the F1 gods to give us a surprise driver on pole. Lando Norris is on the softs, so is Max Verstappen. Provisional pole sitter Carlos Sainz is sticking with his yellow mediums.

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent

Seven drivers have crashed in one qualifying session, I think that says a lot by just how tricky the conditions are.

Three minutes until we start again! Do what you need to do now.

Yellow flagpublished at 14:50 BST

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Not that it's at all important but I'm really hungry. Only had my breakfast early this morning. Could do with no more red flags in this session. The fans are in good spirits in the grandstands, as Max Verstappen is cleared of any wrongdoing under the red flag.

Isack Hadjar is having a little nap in the Racing Bulls garage - is he going to start third tomorrow?

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Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton spoke to Sky Sports after finishing P12: "Honestly, I'm so disappointed. Yesterday the car was feeling good but today there was a direction that we ended up going which on paper looked like it was the best place to be.

"Our pace had been good, we were progressing and I was feeling really on it, I didn't make any mistakes, didn't go down an exit road, it was just that we didn't have the right tyre underneath us.

"Everyone ahead of me basically had the medium tyre on and I lost a medium tyre in P2 due to run-time schedules and that put me on the back foot."

If he didn't have a medium to put on: "Yeah [I did], but the choice wasn't taken to take it.

"I wanted to do but they said that the warm-up was too long or something like that so we ran out of time and out of fuel, so not great.

"We will take it internal and as I said there has been lots of positives this weekend and I've really felt on it.

"I honestly thought I was going to be shooting for pole today and so it's come as a bit of a shock. I will take it on the chin and keep trying."

Max Verstappen does exactly the same thing as Kimi Antonelli and misses the pit entry under the red flag. The Dutchman gives his apologies to his engineer GP, and he has been noted for an infringement, but he should escape punishment like the Italian did.

Ben Edwards
F1 commentator on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

In theory there is a enough time to get out, do one flying lap and that's it.

If someone hits the barrier again when we get out there and there's another red flag and everyone else has to back off, it's going to make a difficult situation.

Piastri out of qualifyingpublished at 14:45 BST

14:45 BST

The track has gone quiet as everyone returns to the pits. This has opened the door for team-mate Lando Norris, if he has time to grab pole position. There are three minutes and 41 seconds left on the clock. Gulp.

Abbi Pulling
F1 Academy champion on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

Oscar Piastri locked up the front left while turning in and completely sailed past the corner.

Piastri hits the wallpublished at 14:43 BST

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This has been bonkers. Oscar Piastri is safely out of the car but the Australian, leading the championship by 31 points, has smashed the wall at Turn Three. He was carrying too much speed and that ended up being a hefty hit for the McLaren driver.

Yellow flagpublished at 14:41 BST

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Carlos Sainz is on provisional pole position but the skies have cleared and the front cars are out on track.

Yellow flag! Is it for Oscar Piastri? Yes. He's in the wall!!

It would be a great result if at least one of Carlos Sainz, Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar - the three who have set a banker lap - stayed in those positions. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are now soft-tyre runners. Less than five minutes to go.

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent

With the sun setting it means that the track dries quite a lot slower than it would do in the middle of the day, so that's another thing to factor in.

Is it wet tyres or is it slick tyres? Is it going to get quicker or is it not?

Lewis Hamilton tells Sky Sports he thought he had a shot at pole position today, so he's disappointed to be eliminated in Q2. It's been a bruising day all round for Ferrari, with Charles Leclerc also crashing out.

OK, here we go again...

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent

I think this is it I can't see with that amount of rain how the conditions are going to improve with the seven minutes of track time we've got left.

Who is going to take pole in Azerbaijan? The session will resume in four minutes, so place your bets now. The rain has also cleared, so Carlos Sainz's dance moves didn't work on this occasion.

Yellow flagpublished at 14:33 BST

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Kimi Antonelli can carry on with his day - no further action to be taken by the stewards.

Abbi Pulling
F1 Academy champion on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

This is so interesting to see the drivers struggling with the wind at first and then the temperature of the track coming down, lots of lock ups and going off through the exit roads, and now the rain.

It's a lot for the drivers to react to and this really separates the drivers and who can adapt the quickest.

Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli has been noted for a red-flag infringement. The Italian did back off but he just missed the pit entry.

"You can start dancing to see if it rains a bit harder, no?"