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F1 Belgian GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP3 & Qualifying
Minute-by-minute updates of Formula 1 Saturday practice and qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps
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Stroll doesn't make it to the flag - his fate is now in everyone else's hands!
Vettel goes P2 with a 1m56.814s lap.
Everyone taking fresh tyres for this last flurry of laps - it can all change in the next two minutes.
Leclerc now gets up to fourth, which puts Hamilton into the drop zone!
Sainz goes seventh, which dumps Leclerc into the drop zone - Bottas has also fallen into the danger zone.
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Verstappen goes top with a 1m56.559s!
Ricciardo gets up to fifth, putting Stroll in the drop zone and leaving Bottas on the bubble.
Hamilton gets into seventh on his second try, but the first sector wasn't particularly good. Bottas goes ninth, putting Ricciardo and Sainz into the drop zone.
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Norris goes even faster, with a 1m57.041s.
Only a 2m08s lap for Hamilton his first lap, although it looked like he massively backed off at Blanchimont. Bottas does the same.
Verstappen now moves up to second, a tenth slower than Norris' timesheet topping lap. Neither Alpine can clear the 2-minute barrier at the moment.
Leclerc now goes third fastest, which becomes fourth as Vettel shuffles up to P2.
Russell was briefly P2, but Gasly shuffles him down a spot as Sainz goes fourth fastest.
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Latifi kicks us off with a 1m59.362s, but Norris immediately clears that with a 1m57.235s.
Hamilton gets called in for new intermediates, having gone out on the used set at the start of the session.
Naturally, everyone on inters for this part of quali - whether it'll dry out enough for a final blast on slicks is anyone's guess.
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Q2 begins. Let's go qualifying! (again)
Q2 will be underway in a couple of minutes - stay tuned!
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Eliminated: Giovinazzi, Tsunoda, Schumacher, Raikkonen, Mazepin.
The Alpine duo just hang on, and will make it through to Q2.
Giovinazzi and Tsunoda can't find enough to get out of Q1, improving but not by enough!
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Verstappen went fastest briefly, but Norris overturned that and set a 1m58.301s!
Ricciardo moves up to 12th, which might be enough to save him from the drop...
Vettel now goes 10th fastest, dumping Giovinazzi into the drop zone.
Hamilton now moves up to second, half a second off Norris after slightly locking his fronts into the final chicane.
Vettel can't find a way out of the bottom five, and is having to go for another lap.
Latifi gets up to sixth place, four tenths off P5 Hamilton.
Bottas gets himself out of the current drop-zone to go P7, which is turned into P8 by Perez.
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Norris now sets a 1m58.776s to go top!
Russell now posts a 2m00.035s to return to the top, but Verstappen is first to set a sub-2m lap!
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Sainz logs a 2m02.057s lap, just one hundredth faster than Russell, while Perez goes top briefly before Ricciardo gets a 2m01s time.
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Bottas is told that "rain is imminent", so those yet to do laps on inters will have to get a move on.
Ocon gets up to P3, albeit with the fastest first sector time - at least, until Sainz beat that.
Latifi cements P2 for now with a 2m02.737s. Norris was fastest of the wet runners with a 2m06s lap.
More cars are following Ocon's lead, as the Williams duo is proving that the inter is the quickest tyre at this point.
Ocon is first to make the switch to inters, he's currently bottom of the timesheets without a representative lap.
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Although Verstappen then does a 2m07s lap, Russell proves the inter pace with a 2m02.068s lap.
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Perez sets a 2m10.135s to go top, as Leclerc goes P2.
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Russell was first to set a time, but gets leapfrogged by Gasly and Hamilton, who get into the 2m10s.
Latifi proves that for the moment, going off-track at Les Fagnes which compromises Russell's lap a little bit.
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