Summary

  • Hamilton on pole, Perez 2nd, Verstappen 3rd

  • Vettel, Alonso & Sainz out in Q2

  • Tsunoda crashes in Q1, both Williams through to Q2

  • Verstappen fastest in final practice

Live Reporting

Michael Emons

  1. Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    That's a good margin by Valtteri Bottas. He hooked up all three sectors on a flying lap and he's found three tenths to Lando Norris.

  2. With six minutes to go...

    The top five - 1. Bottas, 2. Hamilton 3. Norris, 4. Verstappen, 5. Perez.

    The bottom five - 16. Schumacher, 17. Latifi, 18. Mazepin, 19. Russell, 20. Tsunoda (no time)

  3. Jack Nicholls
    BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator

    Lando Norris is absolutely on it!

    Again, he's seven tenths clear than team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.

    That's a baffling margin!

  4. Pierre Gasly and Nicholas Latifi both have not set a legal representative time. They could be in trouble.

  5. Lando Norris was second in third practice and second with eight minutes to go in Q1. Brilliant from the Briton. He's seven tenths ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo.

  6. 'Tsunoda hasn't looked hooked up'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    Yuki Tsunoda was spectacular in Bahrain. He had his own standout moments - particularly his Q1 lap was mighty to split the Mercedes and go second.

    During the race he recovered to make some audacious lunges to get back in the points.

    He's going to have to get those lunges out again here because it's a harder track to overtake - and he hasn't really looked hooked up this weekend. This is a more punishing, technical circuit than Bahrain.

  7. Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, Valtteri Bottas all get fine times on the board. Sergio Perez has a time wiped out for going over track limits.

  8. 'Track is going to be busy'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    This is going to be busy session when we go green again. Effectively everyone has to get a time on the board. It's a short lap to try and get yourself some clean air.

  9. We're back under way as Tsunoda's car has been collected.

  10. 'Not a regular place for a crash'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    Not a regular place where you do see a crash.

    Yuki Tsunoda has had a tricky weekend so far and he's smashed the back end of that Alpha Tauri into the wall hard.

    He's gone in hot, he's oversteered to the right end, catches it through the left and oversteers into the barrier - overcorrection really.

    Hero in his first qualifying last time in Bahrain, villain this time around.

  11. Only five drivers - Lance Stroll, Kimi Raikkonen, Mick Schumacher, George Russell and Nikita Mazepin - have a time to their names.

    This is going to be a frantic and frenetic final 12 minutes as the other drivers look to get something and move into Q2.

  12. Before the red flag, Sebastian Vettel went off to make a mess of that lap.

  13. red flag

    Red flag

    The clock is stopped and we have 12 minutes and one second of action when we get going again.

  14. Tsunoda crashes

    Yuki Tsunoda, one of the stars of race one, is going to start at the back of race two.

    The back of his Alpha Tauri is absolutely ruined and that's a heavy impact. Luckily he says he is OK over team radio.

  15. Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    One second exactly between Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin.

    Mazepin has got his head down after two spins and a crash in first practice but he is still trailing his team-mate.

    It's a good, promising first lap from Mick.

  16. Mick Schumacher a full second better than team-mate Nikita Mazepin, who is continuing to struggle.

  17. The Haas pair are the first ones out there. It would be a big surprise if either man gets out of Q1.

  18. Here we go for Q1. Eighteen minutes, everyone goes out there with 15 moving into the next phase and the other five occupying the back five spots on the grid tomorrow.

  19. 'Pecking order hard to call'

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra

    I'm very excited for qualifying. The clouds are thickening slightly, the sun isn't beating down here at Imola but it is a similar temperature to before.

    The pecking order hard to call. Max Verstappen did the table-topping time but we didn't see the true pace of the Mercedes.

    We did the true pace of the McLaren, the Alpha Tauri and the Ferrari. Maybe not to take pole but to just nibble at the heels of the front runners.

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