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That concludes our coverage of final practice. Our full report is coming up shortly, here’s a summary of the times and the gaps between the drivers:
1. Lando Norris: 1’29.646
2. George Russell: 1’30.125
3. Oscar Piastri: 1’30.431
4. Max Verstappen: 1’30.540
5. Charles Leclerc: 1’30.559
6. Carlos Sainz Jnr: 1’30.807
7. Lewis Hamilton: 1’30.864
8. Alexander Albon: 1’30.949
9. Franco Colapinto: 1’30.989
10. Fernando Alonso: 1’31.082
11. Yuki Tsunoda: 1’31.114
12. Nico Hulkenberg: 1’31.187
13. Kevin Magnussen: 1’31.265
14. Pierre Gasly: 1’31.367
15. Sergio Perez: 1’31.440
16. Esteban Ocon: 1’31.559
17. Daniel Ricciardo: 1’31.561
18. Lance Stroll: 1’31.719
19. Valtteri Bottas: 1’32.098
20. Zhou Guanyu: 1’32.652
Max Verstappen -0.9s Sergio Perez
Lando Norris -0.785s Oscar Piastri
George Russell -0.739s Lewis Hamilton
Fernando Alonso -0.637s Lance Stroll
Valtteri Bottas -0.554s Zhou Guanyu
Yuki Tsunoda -0.447s Daniel Ricciardo
Charles Leclerc -0.248s Carlos Sainz Jnr
Pierre Gasly -0.192s Esteban Ocon
Nico Hulkenberg -0.078s Kevin Magnussen
Alexander Albon -0.04s Franco Colapinto
Race control have noted a potential impeding incident involving Perez and Norris.
The chequered flag drops an Norris ends the session four tenths of a second quicker than anyone, and seven tenths of a second quicker than anyone who isn’t Russell. The McLaren driver looks in a strong position heading into qualifying – but conditions will be very different then.
Leclerc: “Let’s focus on driving instead of focusing about scrub and whatsoever. And to be honest about feeling also because the feeling is [censored by FOM]. We are very slow.” He adds: “I just have no grip”
Leclerc strings together three personal best sectors but is only fifth, nine tenths of a second off Norris. Not looking great for Ferrari.
A clean lap from Sainz but not particularly fast – far from it, in fact, he’s 1.1 seconds off Norris in fifth. Leclerc appears to doing an extra preparation lap before he tries for a time.
Now the Ferrari drivers join the track on softs. With the track conditions improving, they will expect to see lap times up there with McLarens. Russell briefly causes a yellow flag by going off at turn seven.
Norris’ McLaren looks like it has a much more positive front end on it and he produces a superb lap, 1’29.646, first driver under the 90 second mark. He was almost nine tenths of a second faster than…
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