Lewis Hamilton is back out and pushing. Purple through the first sector but he gets held up slightly by a Toro Rosso and he crosses the line second quickest with 1:14.668.

Eight minutes to go and the top 10 looks like this:

1) Vettel 2) Ricciardo 3) Verstappen 4) Rosberg 5) Sainz 6) Perez 7) Hamilton 8) Raikkonen 9) Kvyat 10) Hulkenberg

Max Verstappen scrapes his Red Bull along the side of the wall at Massenet. "I've got damage," he says and he isn't wrong, with his front wing having taken a bit of a whack on the right-hand side. He gets back to the pits for the repairs to be done.

Free of traffic, Sebastian Vettel rattles off the fastest lap of the weekend, a 1:14.659. 

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There's a bit of tinkering going on with Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes as the clock continues to tick down. 

Just a handful of cars on the track at the moment, including the two Ferraris. 

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We haven't seen Jolyon Palmer on the track since his spin earlier, but it looks like he might be getting back out for the final part of practice.

Think the problem with this one is that it might restrict drivers' viewing. 

They don't want to miss a thing...

Twenty minutes to go and both Mercedes are back in the garage. Nico Rosberg is currently third with Lewis Hamilton sixth. Have they got more in hand? Surely, we haven't seen all that they have to offer.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Monaco

There was a scare in practice on Thursday when Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes dislodged an inspection hatch cover, which then flew up and smashed the front wing and suspension on Jenson Button’s McLaren. The offending item has been welded more tightly shut since then, and all similar objects on the track surface strengthened. 

"We have enough risks," Button said. "It is a controlled environment. I have to say normally here it is very good the safety in terms of what they do but that was an incident we definitely don’t want to see again around here. We were lucky in a way it just damaged the car. It stayed quite low on the ground, which was good. We can’t have it happening in open-top cars. The circuit and the FIA know that shouldn’t have happened and it won’t be happening again.”

There was drama at the end of first practice when a drain cover came loose, punctured Nico Rosberg's tyre and heavily damaged Jenson Button's front wing. 

The welders look to have done a decent job in securing the cover back in pace as it didn't cause any bother in FP2 and so far so good in final practice. 

Halfway through final practice and Red Bull is picking up from where it left off on Thursday. Daniel Ricciardo is leading the way ahead of Max Verstappen. Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, is currently sixth quickest and almost seven tenths off the pace of Ricciardo.

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Apologies for the picture of a sumo wrestlers bum on a Saturday morning, but it had to be done after James made the comparison below.

He's not wrong.

Everyone has posted at least one timed lap now. Fernando Alonso goes 11th quickest after a 1:16.269 on softs. Jenson Button, meanwhile, is P15 after a 1:17.039.

Now Daniel Ricciardo goes fastest, dipping below 1:15 with 1:14.807. Max Verstappen then makes it a Red Bull one-two at the top of the timesheet as he posts a 1:15.081.

Max Verstappen is quickest of all through the first sector but he's a bit messy through the latter part of his lap and he crosses the line fifth quickest. 

Not much between the top five, though, with Verstappen's time of 1:15.378 0.197s slower than Nico Rosberg's pace-setting time.

The Red Bulls are out, ultra softs tyres on. It's a slow lap to start with for Daniel Ricciardo - who was fastest on Thursday - but he's ramped things up for his next effort, a very tidy lap that sees him vault into P2 with 1:15.192.