This session has finished. No further updates will be posted.
That brings an end to a session in which only one significant thing happened. Here’s a run-down of the times, full report coming soon:
1. Pierre Gasly: 1’20.311
2. Kevin Magnussen: 1’20.450
3. Valtteri Bottas: 1’21.155
4. Lando Norris: 1’21.387
5. Fernando Alonso: 1’21.461
6. Esteban Ocon: 1’21.643
7. Oscar Piastri: 1’21.850
8. Lance Stroll: 1’21.941
9. Nico Hulkenberg: 1’22.354
10. Carlos Sainz Jnr: 1’22.589
11. Zhou Guanyu: 1’23.240
12. Logan Sargeant: 1’23.287
13. George Russell: 1’23.958
14. Alexander Albon: 1’24.007
15. Lewis Hamilton: 1’24.098
16. Charles Leclerc: 1’24.158
17. Max Verstappen: 1’24.360
18. Daniel Ricciardo: 1’25.433
19. Yuki Tsunoda: No time
20. Sergio Perez: No time
Verstappen has shown the given a black-and-white flag for crossing the white line at pit exit. Hamilton makes a point of passing him at turn eight on the in-lap.
The chequered flag has fallen and Pierre Gasly is surprisingly quickest for Alpine, following by Kevin Magnussen and Valtteri Bottas.
Perez was the first driver to take the chequered flag so he doesn’t have time to do a flying lap, along with those behind him.
Replay shows Max Verstappen overtook Piastri and Russell at the pit exit when he joined the track. His left-rear wheel ran onto the pit lane exit line and he’s been noted by the race director for a potential violation.
The session has restarted with two minutes remaining. Cars are filing out of the pits but they’re going to have to do quick out-laps to get flying laps in.
Drivers now queueing at the pit lane exit and it’s intermediates all around so far. There’s been a further one-minute delay putting the restart time back to 12:28.
We’ve had a further two-minute delay. Will any drivers risk slicks? It looks like Perez, Alonso and Hamilton are on intermediates.
Race control say “session will restart at 12:25 TBC”. That’s five minutes from now, with five minutes remaining.
Still under red flag with now less than 20 minutes to go. FOM saying the session will resume “shortly after barrier repairs are completed” but not indicating when they expect that will be.
Sargeant’s car has been brought back to the pits. However the marshals needs to replace a section of barrier he hit, so it could be a while until the session resumes. There are 29 minutes remaining until the end of the session, and is this is practice that clock continues to count down regardless…
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