2013 Italian Grand Prix Friday practice one

6 min: Calado, Webber and Hamilton are on track working through an installation run.

6 min: Button and Gutierrez also peel into the pits instead of setting a time.

5 min: Grosjean and Jenson Button go for a second lap, but the former pits at the end of his.

5 min: Ricciardo pits at the end of his second lap in the Toro Rosso. Similarly, Bottas comes in.

5 min: Felipe Massa is the first Ferrari on circuit, and the Tifosi applaud as he makes his way round.

4 min: Gutierrez crosses the line for a second lap. Chilton and Gonzalez pit at the end of their installation laps.

4 min: Di Resta and Rosberg are on track to check the basic functions of their machines.

4 min: The Caterhams of Heikki Kovalainen - standing in for Giedo van der Garde this morning - and Charlies Pic are on the circuit.

3 min: Ricciardo and Bottas have crossed the start-finish line and have moved into a second tour of the circuit.

3 min: Sauber pair Nico Hulkenberg and Esteban Gutierrez are out for their installation laps.

2 min: Ricciardo, Bottas, Vergne and Maldonado are all on track for an installation run in the morning sunshine.

2 min: Gonzalez in the second Marussia is also out swiftly, as are Romain Grosjean in the Lotus and McLaren's Sergio Perez.

1 min: First car out, and it is Max Chilton in the Maurssia.

0 min: Rodolfo Gonzalez is ready and waiting to leave the garage in his Marussia. He's in for Jules Bianchi this morning.

0 min: A reasonably large crowd in gathering around the Monza circuit, with no takers willing to get out there just yet.

0 min: The practice session is underway.

James Calado will be gathering data for Force India this morning, in place of Adrian Sutil.

Mark Webber wanders into the garage to get ready for today's action. The Australian is a little late to work this morning.

Pirelli has brought the hard and medium compounds to its home event and it is the former that we will see the teams working with in this first session.

Monza

While rain was never too far away from the action two weeks ago in Belgium, there is little prospect of showers this weekend at the quickest circuit on the Formula 1 calendar.

It is dry, warm and sunny around the royal park this morning and it is set to stay this way during both 90-minute practice sessions, although there could be some patches of cloud developing during the afternoon.

A light easterly breeze will create a bit of a head-wind as the drivers barrel down towards the Ascari chicane and then on towards the Parabolica, while air temperature is set to reach 26 degrees Celsius later today.

Here's how the standings look after Spa: World Championship standings, round 11: Drivers: Constructors: 1. Vettel 197 1. Red Bull-Renault 312 2. Alonso 151 2. Mercedes 235 3. Hamilton 139 3. Ferrari 218 4. Raikkonen 134 4. Lotus-Renault 187 5. Webber 115 5. McLaren-Mercedes 65 6. Rosberg 96 6. Force India-Mercedes 61 7. Massa 67 7. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 25 8. Grosjean 53 8. Sauber-Ferrari 7

Vettel

Hello everybody and welcome to AUTOSPORT Live, as we bring you rolling updates and all the latest information from round 12 of this year's FIA Formula 1 world championship - the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Sebastian Vettel arrives at the parkland setting with the knowledge that he'll have a new team-mate next season and an extremely healthy 46-point lead in this year's title race. Another dominant victory at Spa-Francorchamps last time out has left the competition with an enormous task ahead if they are to stop the German from chalking up his fourth straight championship. Ferrari hero Fernando Alonso leads the challengers with Lewis Hamilton and the consistent Kimi Raikkonen also within range, but they need podiums and race victories quickly.

In the constructors' standings, Red Bull has a large 87-point advantage, but there is a reasonably tight battle for second spot between Mercedes, Ferrari and Lotus. You would think that the Scuderia will be aiming to do something about that on home turf this weekend.

First practice begins in less than 15 minutes. As always, the teams and drivers will work through an installation run and conduct some aerodynamic tests, before getting to grips with the circuit and making sure they have baseline set-up, from which to move forward with this weekend.