F1 Emilia Romagna GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP3 and Qualifying

Raikkonen improves to initially push Russell into the drop zone, but the British driver fights back with his final lap in Q1 to edge clear in P14 by a little over one-tenth of a second.

Into the last minute of Q1, so all or nothing on this lap for those out on the track. Schumacher has had a previous effort deleted for track limits at Turn 9.

Right, into the do it or don't do it time in Q1 (or words to that effect). Schumacher, Latifi, Mazepin, Russell in the danger zone along with the side-lined Tsunoda.

Perez gets a second go at a timed lap and puts in an effort good enough for P5. That'll come as a small relief.

Perez puts in a solid lap to go top but his time is deleted for exceeding track limits at Turn 9. He's still got plenty of time to give it another go but that'll put the pressure on the Red Bull driver.

As expected every driver heads out on to the track, well, every driver except Stroll, who currently tops the session with a 1m16.082s. A bold move?

Tsunoda is out of the car and unharmed, which is really positive considering the amount of damage to the back of his F1 car. It looks a costly mistake from the F1 rookie.

Tsunoda has spun it at Variante Alta and has slapped it into the barriers. That has wrecked the entire rear-end of his AlphaTauri so further woe could follow, but he's definitely out of quali early.

That lap has poked almost the entire grid to venture out on the track for the first time. Only the Red Bull duo and Latifi sticking to the comfort of the garages.

Haas pair Schumacher and Mazepin are the first drivers to head out in this 18-minute session which will see the bottom five drivers eliminated from qualifying.

Just the 21 lap times in total were deleted in FP3 alone this morning, so watch out for drivers being pinged for going too far wide at Turns 9 and 15.

Imola is arguably one of the most beautiful settings on the current F1 calendar, and the 3.05-mile track has proven to be a real test to all the drivers this weekend in terms of staying within the white lines.

The earlier risk of rain has reduced to a very precise 10% according to the F1 timing screen, so one of the teams might get a bit wet. That’s how it works, right?

The entire F1 paddock observes a one minute silence before qualifying to mark the death of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, whose funeral takes place later this afternoon at Windsor.

Verstappen's 1m14.958s gave him top spot in final practice by almost half a second from Norris, but we fully expect the gaps to be much tighter throughout qualifying.

We’ve got a little under 20 minutes until the start of Q1 for qualifying, so that gives us time to recap the key talking points from practice. Verstappen topped a busy FP3 punctuated by several incidents and a brief red flag for a crash by Latifi.

Good afternoon, how are we all doing? It is almost time for F1 qualifying at Imola and the sun is shining (for now). Like the sound of that?