F1 Belgian GP Live Updates - final practice and qualifying
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At last, Magnussen is bumped off the top of the times - first by Norris, then Albon as the Red Bull man clocks a 1m45.092s.
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We were just about to delve into the 2009 Belgian GP report - the race that prompted Ferrari to hire Giancarlo Fisichella - but we'll have to save that for another time.
And here comes everybody else - the two Renaults, Mercedes and Ferraris, plus Kvyat and Perez all out too.
He's joined by Sainz, Alex Albon in the Red Bull and the two Williams of Russell and Latifi.
At last, we have another car out on track - Norris returns in his McLaren.
Hmm, those menacing clouds are releasing a few drops of rain in places.
As Nigel Roebuck put it in his report: "For the next few nights, Ricardo Zonta may sleep with the lights on. This can happen to you if you're minding your own business, proceeding up the hill from Eau Rouge at something over 180mph and then two cars simultaneously come by you, one on either side."
While there's not a whole lot else happening on track as teams look to save their tyres, we thought we'd look back at some previous Belgian GP editions in Autosport mags. Not surprisingly, there was great enthusiasm in the 2000 report following Mika Hakkinen's mega-pass on Michael Schumacher around the outside of Les Combes, with Ricardo Zonta playing piggy in the middle.
Looks like FP1 pace-setter Bottas might be about to emerge from the garage as he's strapped into his Mercedes W11.
The two Haas cars now come into the pits. Any takers for an empty Spa-Francorchamps?
Still, the TV graphics have revealed that Kimi Raikkonen has the record for the most F1 laps completed in history - 16,825. Without his crash in the closing stages of the 2008 race we mentioned earlier, while battling Lewis Hamilton, that tally would be 16,827. We might also have had a different 2008 world champion too...
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Grosjean has improved on his opening gambit, and now sits just 0.2s behind team-mate Magnussen on a 1m46.233s. No sign of anybody else coming to play just yet.
Almost 10 minutes gone of the session and so far we've learned - not an awful lot really.
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Nobody else currently on track, with both McLarens and AlphaTauris returning to the pits. Everybody is seemingly happy to let the Haas cars lay some rubber down after the heavy rain of last night.
Haas of course had a hugely compromised Friday - neither managing to get any laps in FP1 while they only managed 12 each in FP2.
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Magnussen sets the first flyer of the session, a 1m45.984s for the Dane, with Grosjean posting a 1m46.306s.
A few menacing-looking black clouds forming over the downhill right-hand hairpin at Bruxelles. Are we sure rain isn't coming today?
Norris has come straight back into the pits after his initial installation lap, but Magnussen has continued onto a flyer. The Dane is running the yellow side-walled medium tyres.
The two AlphaTauris of Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat now out too, along with Carlos Sainz in the second McLaren.
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First man out is the Haas of Kevin Magnussen, with McLaren's Lando Norris and the second Haas of Grosjean also straight out of the pits.
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The session is green.
Track temperature is a cool 19 degrees, air temperature just 14. Definitely jacket weather.
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As your customary reminder, the softest compound Pirelli has brought to Belgium is the C4, with the medium the C3 and hard C2 tyre - one step softer than last year in an effort to inject some more strategic variety into this year's race.
Who's ready for some sparks to fly?
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Here's your five minute warning. Get those brews on!
Track looks overcast with patches of blue sky peeking through in places. Teams will be mighty relieved to see that as they look to get their all-important qualifying simulations in.
We might just have revealed our affinity for the F1 driver with the most podiums but never a win there. For the record, Heidfeld has 13, just ahead of Stefan Johansson (12) and Chris Amon (11), while Romain Grosjean just misses out on this particular rostrum with 10.
We're being told on the timing screens that the risk of rain for FP3 is just 20% - but as ever at Spa, things can change very quickly on the weather front indeed. There have been a fair few wet weather classics down the years, not to mention 2008, when Nick Heidfeld climbed from ninth to third on the final lap with a well-timed tyre-stop.
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Ferrari had a very difficult Friday, with last year's poleman Charles Leclerc languishing down in 15th in FP2, two spots ahead of Sebastian Vettel. Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto explained that its woes are not just down to its lack of straightline speed, as a number of issues are holding it back. You can find more on that here: 
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In case you missed it yesterday, Max Verstappen set the fastest time in FP2, but said afterwards that he doesn't anticipate a fight for pole with Mercedes - which managed to go 1-2 in FP1, with Valtteri Bottas ahead of Lewis Hamilton. 
Good morning one and all, welcome to Saturday's coverage of the Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps - we're just 20 minutes away from the start of FP3.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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