Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

In the Haas, Ollie Bearman is sitting inside the top 10 in eighth. He has had a run on the soft tyre, which most people haven't done yet.

Max Verstappen has gone fastest, while the Williams engineers work on rookie Franco Colapinto's car.

Charles Leclerc sets a fast lap time but only manages third spot.

It's quiet on track as 11 drivers remain in their garages.

Oliver Bearman is the only driver on the soft tyres. The rookie driver remains in 10th spot in the Haas.

The American based team have been making improvements this season, they moved up to seventh in the teams' standings after their drivers Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen picked up points in Austria.

What's this?

2022 British Grand Prix winner Carlos Sainz tops the time sheet!

He's on a lap time of 1:27.925.

Meanwhile his Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc is in seventh spot.

Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

As much as I would like Lando to do it [win the title], it's an awfully long way back that he's starting from. Max Verstappen is not going to not finish on the podium, realistically. If Lando wins, Max will probably come second - that's kind of the way it's looking right now.

Lando would have to beat Max pretty much every weekend until right at the end of the season to be there or thereabouts. Can I realistically see that happening? I'd love to say yes, but I think it's a very tall order.

Lewis Hamilton goes fastest on the track, his team-mate George Russell is just 0.003 seconds behind him.

Max Verstappen in his Red Bull is behind the pair.

George Russell won last time out in Austria and he'll be hungry for a win at his home grand prix.

He's also a football fan...

Luckily for him qualifying on Saturday should be done and dusted before England face Switzerland in the Euro 2024 quarter-final.

Jennie Gow
F1 pit-lane reporter

I'm just walking down to the McLaren garage, which is almost hidden, actually, which is a bit of a shame. They're at the far end of the paddock in the pit lane so the fans that want to see them, can't really get a good view into their garage because they're under the pit lane exit.

As we walked in this morning, so many McLaren fans - like nothing I have experienced in the past. I've been coming here for quite some time - it was black and white when I first started coming! - but now it's very much papaya.

1. George Russell

2. Max Verstappen

3. Lewis Hamilton

4. Charles Leclerc

5. Carlos Sainz

Lance Stroll is back on track after a brake issue.

Lando Norris goes wide on the track in turn five but quickly rejoins the rest.

Max Verstappen only managest second spot, 0.214 seconds behind George Russell.

Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

A slow-speed spin at what used to be the final corner of the Silverstone circuit. For me, that looks like... with these cars being so high-tech now, the engineers will work together to maybe have different brake biases, and then the way brake bias then shifts through the corner at any given corner on the track.

It looks to me at that specific corner (Turn Seven), Tsunoda has had too much of a shift going rearwards on the brake bias as he's blending into to the corner. And as he's just squeezed onto the brake pedal, it's immediately sent the rear overtaking the front.

Bottas and Hulkenberg are on the medium tyres, everyone else on track are on the hard compound.

Russell tops the time sheet as Verstappen is on a fast lap, can he bump the brit to top spot?

What tyres have Pirelli picked out for the trip to Silverstone?

The hardest range of tyres, of course, for an exciting circuit!

The C1 (white, hard), C2 (yellow, medium) and C3 (red, soft) are the tyres of choice for the British Grand Prix.

As always, drivers will get eight sets of the soft tyre, three sets of the medium tyre and two sets of the hard tyres.

The green intermediates and blue full wets are also on hand if needed, you never know with the British weather

Image source, Pirelli

We're back out on track.

Current time sheet topper George Russell is making his outlap, as well as his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

As I mentioned, Oliver Bearman is currently in 10th place, Jack Doohan in 13th, Isack Hadjar in 16th and Franco Colapinto is yet to set a time in the Williams.

The track marshals are working hard to get Tsunoda's car off the track.

Unfortunately his session is over.

Everyone else is sitting patiently in their garages.

George Russell was topping the timesheet before the practice session was red flagged.

Next year's Haas driver, Oliver Bearman sits in 10th spot.

Yuki Tsunoda has made a trip to the gravel and has stopped.

He losses the rear, missing the apex before he spins on to the gravel.

Lewis Hamilton goes fastest on the track where he holds the record for most wins.

He sets a time of 1:29.035.

Team-mate George Russell is yet to set a time.

Brief yellow flag but we're back on track with the practice session.

Sergio Perez watches on as rookie Isack Hadjar hops into his car for FP1.

Meanwhile, Max Verstappen is the fastest on track.