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Hamilton makes a slight improvement to a 1m05.277s in second, but is still 0.336s off Verstappen.
Further down the order, Latifi sits 11th currently ahead of Giovinazzi, Russell, Perez, Schumacher, Ricciardo, Ocon, Stroll, Alonso, Mazepin.
Hamilton is told most of his time loss to Verstappen was straightline up to Turn 3. Hamilton responds by saying his Turn 1 wasn't great. Definitely time left on the table by the Mercedes driver.
So, Verstappen leads Hamilton, Leclerc, Bottas, Norris, Tsunoda, Sainz, Raikkonen, Vettel and Gasly with 20 minutes of FP3 to go.
Leclerc gets things hooked up on his third lap on this tyre and goes third, 0.543s down and was fastest through sector three.
Hamilton goes second, but he's 0.491s down on Verstappen. Looks like the Red Bull is a far more comfortable ride around this Red Bull Ring this morning.
Meanwhile, Hamilton is on a flying lap by is 0.280s down in sector one and makes a small mistake at Turn 3.
Sainz says to his team that the "tyres game up on me" in the last sector.
Leclerc aborted that lap too after running off at the exit of Turn 4.
Sainz makes a mistake at the last corner and loses the lap, while Verstappen's latest lap wasn't an improvement.
Leclerc has gone onto another flying lap but he's almost four tenths off Verstappen in sector one.
Looks like Gasly has had another lap cancelled for exceeding track limits. He was fifth but has been dumped down to eighth.
Verstappen leads the field by 0.686s from Leclerc, Norris, Tsunoda, Sainz, Raikkonen, Vettel, Gasly, Latifi and Russell. Just over 26 minutes left to run.
Tsunoda was the cause of the yellow flag in sector three. He had a massive slide exiting Turn 9 which ended all the way on the outside of Turn 10 via a trip through the grass.
Verstappen blitzes the field with a 1m04.941s on his first lap. Just a couple of tenths away from his Friday best.
There was a yellow flag in sector three but has been cleared as Verstappen heads into that split.
Leclerc goes top in the Ferrari with a 1m05.627s.
Verstappen heads onto his first flying lap.
And predictably, Gasly has lost that last lap for track limits at Turn 10.
Gasly gets it wrong at the final corner and ends up third, 0.048s off Norris in third.
Verstappen is sent out on a fresh set of soft tyres.
Gasly is on a lap on the soft tyres and is fastest through sector one.
Perez has gone out on the hard tyre. Verstappen still in pitlane.
Norris improves at the top of the standings with a 1m05.700s.
Ricciardo goes sixth on his first soft tyre lap.
Raikkonen leaps up the order to second, 0.068s adrift of Norris. Looks like the Alfa Romeo driver has also switched to soft tyres.
With 25 minutes gone, Norris leads Tsunoda, Gasly, Leclerc, Russell, Ocon, Stroll, Hamilton, Giovinazzi, Sainz.
Only Latifi in the Williams and Verstappen in the Red Bull are yet to set a lap time.
Norris goes fastest with a 1m05.762s. No dramas on this lap for the McLaren driver.
Russell jumps up to fifth on a soft tyre time attack. He's 0.252s off Tsunoda's benchmark, which was set on the development tyre.
Norris lost the rear of his McLaren a tad as he picked up the power exiting Turn 1 and was sent wide, grinding the yellow kerb Tony Hawk style.
Norris has ditched the development tyre and is out on a new set of softs. However, he runs wide at the first turn at the start of this flying lap and aborts it.
Replay shows Bottas dipped his rear into the gravel but managed to keep it pointing in the right direction.
Bottas has a bit of a moment exiting Turn 5 on this lap on his way to a 1m06.900s to go 12th.
Valtteri Bottas is now out on track and goes onto a flying lap, also on the development tyre.
The world champion's first time is a 1m06.414s to go sixth.
Hamilton is currently on a flying lap on the development tyres.
And in typical fashion, Hamilton heads out just as we hit send on that last message.
Still no laps for the Mercedes and Red Bull pair.
Mazepin has quite a big lock-up into Turn 3 at the top of the hill and flatspots his development tyres.
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