F1 Italian GP Live Updates - final practice and qualifying
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Suddenly everybody else wants to join the party. Plenty of cars now head out as Sainz continues on his medium tyres.
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More from Stallard on the radio as we continue to watch Sainz. "Try the alternative line into Turn 3 [Curva Grande]", he says.
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"You are P1, purple in all sectors", engineer Tom Stallard tells Sainz. Good for the ego, if nothing else.
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He duly sets a 1m21.875s to go fastest in the session so far. Obviously.
The Spaniard now becomes the first driver to attempt a flying lap, his car sparking gloriously around the Curva Grande. We approve.
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Sainz endured the bitter disappointment last week of failing to start the Belgian GP due to an exhaust failure before the start. He's certainly not had the rub of the green this year, as he explained on Thursday. 
Movement at last down at McLaren, as Carlos Sainz Jr heads out on track.
The live feed is showing plenty of drivers sat intently in their cars, but it's something of a cold war at the moment as we wait to see who will go out first to set a proper laptime.
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Still no sign of much track action going on. But there certainly was a lot of action in the F3 race earlier, as title contender Oscar Piastri charged from 15th to third on the grid to retake the points lead from team-mate Logan Sargeant. You can read Josh Suttill's report here: 
He's not remembered in the top pantheon of drivers in the way Moss, Clark, Stewart, Lauda, Prost, Senna, Schumacher and Hamilton are - but Regazzoni was certainly an important driver in F1's history - aside from his momentous win for Williams, he also pushed Emerson Fittipaldi all the way in the 1974 title race, missing out by only three points.
We mentioned Clay Regazzoni earlier, and it feels appropriate to remember, on this momentous weekend for Williams, that he also scored that team's first victory at Silverstone in 1979.
All cars that have ventured out so far are now sat in the pits. Might be in for a repeat of Spa FP3 here with a bit of a lull in-between runs.
It's rather odd without people at Monza isn't it? Usually teeming with tifosi hoping - rather than expecting - a result from the scarlet cars, somehow the absence of the fans feels more pronounced here than anywhere F1 has been so far.
Still no flying laps yet, everybody taking things steady this morning.
Both Alfas come straight back into the pits after completing a reconnaissance lap, as Gasly now heads out for AlphaTauri.
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Giovinazzi and Raikkonen are joined by the Haas twins Grosjean and Magnussen, as well as Norris in the McLaren.
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Here we go then. The one-hour session has started and both Alfa Romeos head out on track.
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That said, neither of those races were too bad...
It's led to many pondering whether we should go back to one-shot qualifying at Monza and other tow-reliant tracks, although that also opens up potential issues when rain arrives mid-session, as happened at Melbourne and Suzuka in 2005.
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One thing to look out for today is a possible repeat of the mad end to FP3 at Spa last week, with drivers queuing on the exit of the Ascari chicane to try and get a tow. Lewis Hamilton spoke on the topic yesterday, admitting he was concerned that it would be a similar story at Monza. 
Here's your five minute warning - we're almost ready to go at Monza.
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Today's conditions are set to be fairly similar to yesterday. The timing screens report a zero per cent risk of rain, track temperatures of a toasty 36 degrees and 26 degrees air temperature.
Yesterday's practice times were topped comfortably by Mercedes, so comfortably that Valtteri Bottas admitted he was "surprised". Ferrari, meanwhile, could only muster ninth in FP2, with Charles Leclerc 1.3s off the pace. His team-mate Sebastian Vettel admitted that the car was a "handful" to drive.
Although shrouded in tragedy, the 1970 Italian race continued and was won by Clay Regazzoni for Ferrari - the popular Swiss driver's first F1 victory. 50 years on, what price would you get at a bookies on another Ferrari win? We reckon the odds would be fairly long...
The Austrian only scored six world championship wins in Formula 1, but was one of the quickest drivers of his day and blazed a trail followed by countryman Niki Lauda a few years later.
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Today marks 50 years since the death of Jochen Rindt at Monza, the Austrian becoming the only posthumous champion in Formula 1 history when Jacky Ickx was unable to match his tally. To mark the occasion we've picked out an extract from a new book celebrating his life. 
Good morning and welcome to Autosport's live coverage from Saturday at the Italian Grand Prix. Stay with us for FP3 in a little under 20 minutes as we build up to qualifying at 3pm local time this afternoon.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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