F1 Spanish GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP3 & Qualifying

It is the business end of Q1. All drivers apart from the top five, Ricciardo (P7) and Ocon(P8) have come back out to try to go faster.

All the F1 drivers have pitted after their first runs. Bottas still on top from Verstappen, with Gasly up to third. Further back, Latifi has suffered a broken left-side mirror. At least he'll know why he has any bad luck this weekend.

That is messy. Vettel is on the old circuit layout trying to find a way across the racing line to get into the pits, a couple of cars are dawdling on the outside of the chicane and Mazepin has to hurry up to avoid holding up Norris.

Traffic! Norris, approaching the final few corners, has to weave through a handful of drivers going slow to prepare for their own timed laps. That's been noted by the stewards.

There's that Ferrari show of pace again, as Sainz puts himself third exactly 0.2s off Bottas using the soft tyres on his first Q1 run.

Russell opts to pit before completing in his first timed effort which leaves Latifi to take P1 with a 1m20.241s ahead of Schumacher and Mazepin. That won't last with the rest of the field taking to the track now.

The familiar quartet of early Q1 runners appear: Russell, Latifi, Schumacher and Mazepin. Everyone else fancies another sip of coffee before starting.

This delay gives all the teams a chance to apply an extra scrub and polish to the cars before they head out. That'll definitely earn them an extra couple of hundredths.

The barriers at Turn 9 are indeed being attended to under the watch of FIA F1 race director Michael Masi, meaning Q1 should start at 3:10pm local time. Safety first.

So, who is your money on for pole? No need to rush your predictions, we've got Q1 coming up first in a few minutes, so just enough time to grab a cuppa.

But let's not rule out Verstappen, who put together the fastest lap of the weekend so far in FP3 - a 1m17.835s - to go 0.235s faster than Hamilton in that session.

Hamilton has taken pole here on four of the past five seasons - missing out to Bottas in 2019 - and the Mercedes pair were split by under a tenth last year.

This afternoon marks Hamilton's second shot at claiming a century of F1 pole positions, having missed out in Portugal last weekend, but he'll face strong competition from Bottas and Verstappen going on the practice times.

Ferrari has also shown impressive pace in practice and looks right in the fight behind the top two teams against the likes of Alpine, McLaren and AlphaTauri. As ever this year, Q2 is going to be incredibly close to secure a top 10 spot.

Practice ahead of the Spanish GP has been an intriguing tussle across the entire F1 grid. Up at the top Mercedes dominated on Friday, only to see Red Bull’s Verstappen strike back in FP3 this morning.

If you're a Ferrari fan, you've been waiting for a Tweet like this for a long time.