Daniil Kvyat tells his Toro Rosso team his rear tyres are "really bad".

Daniel Ricciardo is the latest to get familiar with the gravel at Turn Six. He uses the perimeter road to find his way back on to the track and decides he's in good enough shape to knock out a couple more laps before P1 closes.

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Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

It loos like the top area of the wishbone is broken. Max is at the back of the garage and he is nonplussed. He'll bounce back from it.

How long ago did Verstappen go off? They're only just now wheeling his car it into the Red Bull garage.

We know he suffered front-right suspension issues. It's tricky to see how bad that is, as the Red Bull is covered in a mysterious blue sheet.

The teasers.

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Can Hamilton make a late charge to scupper his team-mate in the final seven minutes?

About half the field are out on track and there's more joining.

Rosberg, in P1, is on track. Hamilton is just joining him.

But Vettel and Raikkonen - in P3 and P4 - are in the pits.

Not a great session for Manor.

Rio Haryanto is already under investigation for rejoining unsafely.

And now Pascal Wehrlein is being investigated for not meeting minimum lap-time requirements.

That looks like the BBC weather iconography - nice work Renault.

Oh, but bad news on the thunderstorms. Sad face.

Dowel Ahmed: Jim Clark and Sir Jackie Stewart in any car and weather

Tim Singleton: Gilles Villeneuve & Ayrton Senna. By a mile (at least).

Very little changing on the time sheets - Rosberg still top with 1:07.373. Hamilton is 0.357 seconds further back and we have 16 minutes to go.

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Because Kimi does what Kimi wants, Seb. When will you learn?

Rio Haryanto is being investigated for rejoining unsafely in front of Daniel Ricciardo after that spin.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer

As has become the norm this season, there are complaints again this weekend about what teams and drivers see as unnecessarily high mandatory minimum tyre pressures. The higher limits were introduced on safety grounds following the failures at last year’s Belgian Grand Prix, making more robust tyres which many teams and drivers regard as simply not good or robust enough for F1.

This weekend, Jenson Button is the first to complain before he has even sat in the car. “We are 4psi higher on the front pressures here,” he said, “which is unbelievably high considering we didn't have any issues here last year. Front graining is going to be a massive issue, so that is tough considering we have soft, super-soft and ultra-soft here.

It is going to make the weekend reasonably tough for everyone. So it is about cooling as much as you can and driving in a certain way and running loads of engine braking. It is a shame but is a fun place to drive, proper old school.” He added: “You overheat the tyre and nothing works. It doesn't matter how much downforce you have got sometimes, the straights never change but the corners do. It is tough. At the end of last year I thought we would have lower pressures this year, we were told we would have lower pressures, and we haven't - so it is really difficult. They are not in a range where they work, I think. Maybe for one lap, but after that…”

Literally 90 seconds after being told not to go over the yellow kerbs, Haryanto comically spins over the yellow kerbs.

Brilliant.

Manor get on the radio to tell Rio Haryanto "not to use the yellow kerbs".

Clever that. It's called watching and learning.

Oh, wait, he's not listening. Rio goes off at Turn Eight. Sigh.

Max is out the car and marching through the paddock back to the Red Bull garage.

He's still git his helmet on, so it's impossible to tell if he's miffed or not, but he has the gait of someone with a chip on his shoulder.

Oh it's an absolute gravel-fest.

Max Verstappen goes wide at Turn Five and hits these new yellow kerbs in Austria.

It snaps his front right suspension and he goes straight on into Turn Six. The Red Bull sits in the gravel, wheel spinning away as it tries to climb out.

He'll be lifted out.

"Unbelievable those yellow things," Verstappen says on the radio.

Nico Rosberg is in a spot pf bother. He locks up going into Turn Three and careers over the gravel all the way to a service road on the other side and comes back on over the grass.

He's likely to pit.

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Jim.i.am: My fantasy go line up: Senna & 1986 version of Piquet Snr - light the blue touch paper and stand well back!!

Kathleen Jowitt: Alonso and Button at McLaren IS my dream team... I'd just like it to be McLaren of about a decade ago

Jon Sayer: F1 dream team? Suggs (he likes driving in his car) and Gary Numan (he likes cars in general)

And all those factors combine to create the fastest lap of the day - 1:07.644. That's almost a second quicker than his previous fastest.

Felipe Massa is the next man out.