Max Verstappen is coming round now. He's fastest through the first two sectors.

Kimi Raikkonen is also on the track with ultrasofts on and he is faster than Nico Rosberg through sector one.

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P2 for Daniel Ricciardo after a 1:44.903, half a second down on Nico Rosberg. The Australian lost a bit of time in the final sector.

So Nico Rosberg is fastest having done a 1:44.352. Here comes the Red Bulls with the ultrasofts on though. Time to see what they can do.

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Chief F1 writer

Ultra-soft run. Purple S1, straight on T7. Early days, but at moment this weekend has echoes of Baku for Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton is two tenths up on Nico Rosberg after the first sector but his lap is scuppered as he once again finds himself heading down the escape road down at Turn 7.

 Not been a great weekend for the Briton so far...

Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton are back out with the purple-lined ultra softs on their cars. Should see those times come down.

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'Large lizard invades track' is probably my favourite ever key point on this page.

Is it the biggest thing, apart from humans, to have found its way onto a track? 

Almost everyone back into the pits as we head into the latter stages of final practice as drivers prepare for qualifying simulations in the closing stages.

Daniil Kvyat, currently an impressive fifth, and Sergio Perez (ninth) are the only two still out on track.

Here's a picture of Max Verstappen power sliding like a boss a little earlier.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer

Toro Rosso have an upgraded aerodynamic package in Singapore. And Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat were an encouraging eighth and 10th fastest in second practice. That’s the good news. Carlos Sainz ran it on Friday, while team-mate Daniil Kvyat - who was 0.5 seconds slower in the second session - stuck with the previous spec. But the team could not tell from the data whether the new parts were giving the advantage expected. So the two cars will remain in different specs for the rest of the weekend to try to gather more data. “It is not ideal as it means the new package hasn't brought as much as we thought,” Sainz said. “That is it really.” 

Kvyat, whose career is hanging by a thread, needs to up his game in these final seven races, so the confusion - and the gap between the drivers - was not a good sign for the Russian.

Carlos Sainz is up among the front runners midway through second practice. He is fourth quickest, having done a 1:46.279 on ultra softs. 

Nico Rosberg leads from Lewis Hamilton, with Sebastian Vettel third. The two Mercedes have yet to go out on ultras.

Huge drift from Max Verstappen at Turn 7. He's currently sixth quickest, having set his time on the softs. 

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A big lock up for Lewis Hamilton as he passes Nico Rosberg and he heads down an escape road at Turn 7. He turns around and gets going again, but Rosberg will have been happy to have watched that.

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Chief F1 writer at Monza

There is a bit of a gulf between the top three teams and the rest. Jenson Button predicted before the weekend that McLaren could be at the head of the next group, but it has not worked out that way. Button was struggling badly with a lack of grip and was down in 13th and 0.8secs slower than team-mate Fernando Alonso in ninth - more or less the same gap as there was between them in qualifying at this race last year.

“It’s a long way from all right,” Button said. “A lot of work needed. Struggled this weekend so far. Just feels like really low grip compared to the people we thought we’d be racing. Toro Rosso on long run pace is phenomenally quick compared to us. It’s a big surprise. It is going to be a bit more difficult this weekend than we thought.”

Alonso, to be fair, had been saying since Spa that he felt there would be better tracks to come for McLaren than Singapore, and he wasted no time pointing this out. “The expectations were quite high before coming here, but not in my case,” he said. “I was repeating the same thing that there are better circuits than Singapore for us - Suzuka, Austin and Abu Dhabi. We will fight for Q3 but Force India and Toro Rosso look strong. But we can find a couple of tenths and battle with them for the last positions in Q3. The biggest problem is poor grip. We need to find a bit more downforce will be key.”

It's not been a great weekend for McLaren so far, with Jenson Button saying the car has been struggling with low grip. He's still not happy.

"Big understeer, can we box this lap?" he says over the radio.