F1 Italian GP Live Commentary and Updates - Qualifying

A 1m20.296s means Leclerc goes faster than Sainz.

Ricciardo goes fourth behind Magnussen, then the two Alpines.

Again, Sainz is up in S1 but this time he's clean through the Lesmos.

Leclerc is up in the middle of the lap though...

It's Sainz ahead of Leclerc again, can he get his first lap in this time? 

Gasly is in front of Ocon but trying to keep tabs with Leclerc for a tow of his own.

The two Ferraris are getting on with it again, with used tyres seemingly the pick of the pack for the Scuderia and the two Alpines.

Piastri jumped up to third late on whilst Colapinto and Magnussen conspired to create drama and, with the yellow flags halting improvements, Perez's lap turned out to be enough.

Advantage Norris and Leclerc, who didn't run at the end of the session and saved a set of tyres.

Perez is over the line and that is not fantastic, it has to be said.

Only ninth, slower than Albon and almost seven-tenths off the pace.

The replay isn't particularly helpful for McLaren - Verstappen was almost punted into the wall.

Albon goes P8 with his effort but that could be right on the cusp. 

Piastri, meanwhile, has been noted for an unsafe release in front of Verstappen. That looks like a slam dunk, it has to be said.

Albon is aiming for clean air as he is the first out on track, with Perez on his out-lap during the Williams' flying attempt.

Now everyone else follows.

A short lull with five minutes to go as teams prepare for the do-or-die runs.

Colapinto, Tsunoda, Bottas, Perez and Zhou are those at risk. Yikes for the Red Bull...

Gasly complained of smoking brakes a short while ago. Now the Alpine driver goes ninth, ahead of his team-mate Ocon.

You have to go down to Stroll in P14 to find the first driver outside a second of Norris in P1.

"The tyres are nowhere, sliding massively." 

Fair to say Russell isn't enthused with his first run.

Sainz has been in the pits, had the Ferrari checked over, put a new set of tyres on and is flying along nicely on his latest lap.

That'll do nicely for the Spaniard as he jumps to third.

Russell goes four-tenths down on Norris and into fourth, Hamilton follows across the line and into fifth. 

Piastri now has Alonso behind him. Stroll is in 11th and four-tenths down on his Aston Martin team-mate with seven minutes to go.

Fourth for the Australian saves a set of tyres for later, you would think, rather than having to waste another set and fit an extra run in between now and the planned last run of the session.

Albon has jumped to fifth to split the Haas duo, with Ricciardo into seventh and Colapinto eighth of the 13 to have set a lap.

Perez is only 10th on his opening gambit as Piastri goes again...

Verstappen and Norris are on their first attempts but neither are up on Leclerc in the first two sectors...

Replays show Sainz's wheel in the gravel came close to spelling disaster as he caught a slide.

That would have been a big incident indeed and, unsurprisingly, Sainz asks for a floor check.

Sainz was up on team-mate Leclerc through sector one but a mistake at the second Lesmo ruins his effort.

On the back foot straight away.

Unsurprisingly, Alpine, Haas and Ferrari go out in formation to enable towing. Sauber has split its cars though.

There isn't a huge rush to get out given the track evolution but, as usual, when there is movement, it's all at once.

Sainz has a new power unit in the back of his Ferrari - that could be crucial with the power cranked up today.

Qualifying is upon us and soon we will have a queue resembling Ticketmaster's website earlier. Much like this morning, only a select few will even get the chance to grab what they seek... in this case, pole position.

Where's the Spidermen meme when you need it?

Magnussen stopped at the end of practice earlier on with a gearbox failure. 

Haas is still working on the car, though the Dane should make it out for a qualifying attempt in Q1.

Turning attention to qualifying and we could have the usual mess that Monza throws up.

The slipstream can be vital to a good grid position but, as we have seen in previous years, too much faffing can lead to shock results.

Talking of drivers making the step up to F1 from F2, Franco Colapinto is making his first outing for Williams after replacing Logan Sargeant.

He was very impressive in FP3, just three-tenths off team-mate Alex Albon and in the top 10.

Antonelli crashed just over 10 minutes into his FP1 outing with Mercedes and in the F2 race that finished a short while ago, he was involved in an incident on lap one that took him out of points contention.

Prema team-mate Oliver Bearman came out on top.