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F1 Austrian GP: Russell beats Antonelli to top spot in final practice

Mercedes has done little to shrug off its favourite status at Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix as George Russell topped third practice on Saturday

Hadjar is complaining about Turn 3 again, reporting that the car continues to lock up without much pressure on the pedals. That might explain why he's still only ninth.

Antonelli isn't improving on his final flyer of the session, and pits. Leclerc's looking okay though, improves, but it's still only seventh - the top seven still all within 0.4s. 

Hadjar gets up to eighth this time, 0.8s off the pace.

Alonso lifts himself off the bottom - but only goes 21st. Stroll is 0.15s off his team-mate. 

Leclerc does a lap but doesn't improve having seen the best of his tyres.  The Mercedes pair is about to get cracking on what should be a final timed lap.

Bortoleto improves and goes up to 11th, overlapping Hadjar's earlier hard-tyre lap. Bearman moves up to 13th, Albon improves but stays 16th, and Perez puts in a soft-tyre lap to get up to 19th. 

Piastri goes again, and moves up to fourth - 0.210s off Antonelli. Sainz goes 16th.

Hadjar goes up to ninth on his first "proper" soft-tyre lap. 

Piastri improved slightly to get up to sixth, 0.419s off Antonelli's current headliner.

Colapinto crosses the line and moves up to 13th, behind both Audis, while Hadjar went off on his first effort with the soft tyres. Lindblad then goes ninth - about 0.08s off Lawson's earlier effort.

A best final sector for Antonelli, but doesn't improve. Verstappen goes up to second, 0.235s off Antonelli's previous best. 

Norris is coming round to log a lap, he's now second.

Hamilton follows him, but he's not able to clear Antonelli either - 0.077s off the Italian to take second from Norris.

Russell goes third, with some improvement over his previous best. Leclerc goes off at Turn 3. 

"I cannot turn the car, so there's something wrong at the front," Alonso reported. I can think of quite a few things, for example 'everything else hanging off it'. 

We've got a few more drivers investing in a new set of slicks; Antonelli opens a lap, but is a tenth down on his best first sector. 

Sainz isn't having fun at the final two corners - he's been off a few times, with the front end looking like it's shaping up for an entirely different corner. 

Speaking of misbehaving cars, Alonso is currently bottom of the timesheets and couldn't beat his previous effort on that run. 

Lawson launches his car into the top eight, surpassing Gasly by 0.2s. Norris, meanwhile, finds 0.005s.

Leclerc's on another now, but bails on that lap. 

"Really bad straight-line braking on the front axle," Russell reports. Meanwhile, Verstappen found about 0.06s over his previous lap, and has set a 1m07.746s. 

Norris is on a second lap, and goes third fastest - 0.148s shy of Antonelli. Gasly improves but stays eighth. 

Leclerc goes second now, 0.155s - has the Monegasque entersed the picture here? First to seventh all within 0.35s, which is close - for the time being.

Russell improves to second, 0.173s short of Antonelli's effort. Hamilton set a best first sector, but it looked like traffic had a role to play through Turn 4 - indeed, he's lost time in sector two.

He's up to third, 0.257s down on Antonelli. 

Antonelli posts a 1m07.533s to go quickest, 0.3s up on Norris. Verstappen also posts a lap and goes second, 0.271s down on Antonelli.

The Dutchman reports interference in his headset. 

Bottas had his lap deleted for track limits. Norris, meanwhile, reports his left mirror is "completely broken". 

Some times coming in: Gasly gets up to fourth, 0.541s off Norris, while Hulkenberg is now up to sixth, Leclerc splitting he and Bortoleto within the top eight.

Piastri is next up, purple first sector, but a smidge down in sector two - it's a 1m07.881, and 0.049s off Norris.

Hamilton does the best final sector and goes 0.345s off Norris' effort. Russell follows that up, half a second off Norris' effort.

Hadjar picks up the pace, 0.718s away from Norris on the hards after two cool laps.

"The balance feels pretty nice," Hadjar says.

Perez logs a 1m10.537s, and lost about a second in that final sector. 

Colapinto on the softs is setting a few purple sectors, although Hulkenberg has emerged on track and is also going quickly.

It's a 1m09.829s for Colapinto, while Hulkenberg follows that with a 1m09.684s.

Hadjar begins a lap, and it's a 1m09.230s on the hards. Track looks a bit slow at the moment.

Looking at Perez's laps, he's not really doing anything beyond installation laps at this point...he was about to go for a flyer, but went wide at Turn 1.

This time, he's gone for another lap and posts a 1m10.944s.

Colapinto now emerges on the track in the repinkified Alpine. 

A slow start to the morning's running - just Perez circulating at the moment to make up for lost time. 

Everyone else is seeking the solace of cool vests at the moment. 

Perez starts us off with a 1m11.437s on a set of used mediums - he was the only driver to carry over a used set from yesterday.

Just a few minutes to go until FP3 gets under way - and as ever, it's a good opportunity to see who's made the best overnight changes.

Can McLaren and Ferrari make a closer step to Mercedes, and will Red Bull iron out its power delivery issues at Turn 3?

Expect plenty of qualifying prep as well; most drivers have six sets of the soft tyre left in their allocation. 

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes

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