Summary

  • Verstappen passes Leclerc on penultimate lap to win sprint race at Imola

  • P3 Perez, P4 Sainz, P5 Norris, P6 Ricciardo, P7 Bottas, P8 Magnussen

  • Both Mercedes finish outside top 10

  • Top 8 finishers receive points: 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

  • Verstappen to start Sunday's main race from pole position

  • First of three sprint race weekends in 2022 season

Live Reporting

Gary Rose

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  2. Sebastian Vettel is out on the hard tyres as he squeezes in a bit of homework for tomorrow's full race distance.

  3. Guanyu Zhou has got the sprint race distance of 21 laps out of his soft tyres in this session. Lewis Hamilton is up to 19 with two minutes remaining.

  4. Andrew Benson
    BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

    If I was Sainz and Perez, I'd go for the soft and bank the early grip [in the sprint race] but for Verstappen and Leclerc it's a much more complicated decision.

  5. Good pace from Fernando Alonso as he sets the fastest first sector time on his way to going fifth quickest on his soft-tyre run. He's within seventh tenths of George Russell's time.

  6. Both Mercedes are back in the pits. The porpoising, the amount the car bounces, appeared less severe than it did yesterday in the moments I saw them on track.

  7. Ten minutes to go and there could be good news at McLaren because Lando Norris has his helmet on and looking at his car being readied eagerly.

    Meanwhile, Sergio Perez is up into second having got to within 0.081s of George Russell's time on mediums.

  8. Lewis Hamilton reports that his rears are overheating.

    Most of the drivers are on softs and are looking to see how long they can go on them.

    Sergio Perez did 18 laps, three short of the length of the sprint race, on the softs earlier in this session and there didn't appear to be a significant drop off during that run.

  9. Charles Leclerc is also on the softs and he goes second quickest with 1:19.740.

  10. Esteban Ocon's first soft tyre run is a 1:21.526 to put him 12th.

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  13. Andrew Benson
    BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer

    Verstappen is lapping two laps quicker than Charles Leclerc so maybe this is his sprint-race simulation.

  14. Max Verstappen is out on the track with mediums on his Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are out there as they continue to see if their setup for today is as good as it appears.

  15. Twenty five minutes remaining and things are a little quieter on the track as teams and drivers go through the data gathered in the first part of final practice.

  16. Ferrari don't appear to be looking for the headline-grabbing quick times today. Carlos Sainz is currently ninth quickest with Charles Leclerc 10th.

  17. Charles LeclercReuters

    Charles Leclerc is testing out the new hover setting in his Ferrari it seems.

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  19. Jamie Chadwick
    Williams F1 development driver and W Series champion

    The Mercedes looks to be pretty handy in the second sector, however I think that does mean their straight-line speed is a limitation in sectors one and three.

  20. Mercedes go fastest

    This is looking encouraging for Mercedes as George Russell goes fastest with 1:19.457.