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00:00To see between the C4 and C5, the softest of the range, Sainz out in 2nd Rivazza, good clean run up to the line, does go quickest, but still only in the 1.17s.
00:10As his teammate Charles Leclerc with DRS and a bit of time.
00:14Leclerc is going out there straight away, 8.9.10 so far in the lap, quicker than Sainz.
00:20Perez and Verstappen out there on the medium tyre as well, 3rd and 4th for them, only 4 times on the board as Leclerc goes faster.
00:29A 1.16.281 in the early part of this final practice session.
00:34So starting to push now for the reigning champion who was not happy yesterday, not only with the balancing issues on that Red Bull, but finding traffic as well.
00:42A bit of an altercation with Lewis Hamilton, who did apologise within the car, waved his hand, said sorry to Verstappen, who now comes across the line 2nd fastest on the medium tyre.
00:53Just have a look and see what Perez does across Variante Alta, clouds the chicane.
00:59And carries on going, so just taking quite a lot of kerb there.
01:03But Ricciardo, no one's in a rush to get on the track it seems, but Ricciardo also seemed to be quite outclassed by Yuki Tsunoda yesterday, who was on fire in that final double left hander.
01:17Oh, and just dips a wheel onto the gravel for Verstappen across the line.
01:22DRS wide open, does improve his time, stays 2nd.
01:27Meanwhile, Leclerc is absolutely flying out on track.
01:31Yeah, Leclerc on the soft tyres that he's already been out before on a previous run and doesn't improve massively.
01:39Coming through, Bravata for Kevin Magnussen to see off his lap.
01:44Lewis Hamilton out there on the soft Compana tyre as well, personal best in sector 1 and sector 2.
01:49Magnussen comes across the line 8th fastest.
01:52Let's see though, what Lewis Hamilton can do with his first lap time on the board.
01:58Bringing the second part of the Miami upgrade for the Mercedes team this time around across the line for Lewis Hamilton, only 11th.
02:05We've got a replay of Alonso up at the Variante Alta chicane.
02:10See, oh, Ham has carried a lot of speed in the first part there and that just sent him straight out wide.
02:18You can just see, he looks like he's got understeer, but actually that comes from the fact that he launched the car over the first part with a significant amount of speed.
02:26Lewis Hamilton on his last lap around, went 11th fastest on the soft.
02:30His teammate, George Russell though, bearing better on the soft Compana in his first run.
02:35Sick fastest Caroon, decent lap from Russell compared to Hamilton.
02:39So at the moment, it's 2 seconds to sights.
02:42Where's all that 2 seconds?
02:440.8 of it, is it straight line?
02:50It's the follow-up question, where's the other 1.2?
02:53Through Variante Alta in the RB.
02:56Struggle compared to his teammate, Yuki Tsunoda, yesterday in free practice on his first proper run today in the final practice session.
03:08Not lighting up the time, he's in the first sector matching around strong on Alonso.
03:12Let's see what he's got across the line, 13th fastest.
03:15Yellow flag in sector 3, I wonder what it was.
03:17And that is the Aston Martin in the wall of Fernando Alonso, who has gone in at the final corner through the last bit of the left-hander of Rovazza.
03:30How on earth has he ended up there in backwards into the wall?
03:35Big damage for Fernando Alonso.
03:37Red flag.
03:39Good to hear he's okay.
03:40That is exactly where Carlos Sainz ended up.
03:42If you remember how he qualified a couple of years ago, that means you turn in that second Rovazza.
03:48He ended up there.
03:49That could be an issue for the gearbox.
03:52First of all, it could go into Saturday now and also for qualifying.
03:57It gives the team a lot of work to do.
04:00I'm looking out of the commentary box window and a bunch of cars have gone to the end of the pit lane.
04:04It's a long pit lane, 548 meters here.
04:07And one of the Saubers has gone down, the mechanics having to run to retrieve it.
04:12But Alonso has given his Aston mechanics a lot of work to do in the two-hour gap before qualifying.
04:19Red flag out then for Fernando Alonso.
04:20He was crashed.
04:21Let's see how it happens.
04:24Turns into Rovazza 1.
04:25A lot of understeer through there.
04:26Gets on the outside curve.
04:27And as he turns in the rear of the car, I think he was slightly wide off the line.
04:31He is slightly wide of the groove.
04:33And I don't know if it was just a bit dusty out there.
04:37Look, watch.
04:37He comes through, carries the understeer, gets on that curve, then turns it from way out wide.
04:42And he was not by much.
04:45You're talking a few centimeters wide of the line.
04:48And the rear of the car just broke away from him.
04:52A rare mistake from Fernando Alonso.
04:55Yeah, sorry, mate.
04:56You okay, yeah?
04:59Yeah, all good.
05:02This was before Alonso, by the looks of it, found the wall.
05:06Through the final part of the Rovazza.
05:07And now, Logan Sargent almost on his way to have a similar incident.
05:13Just running out wide on the curbs.
05:17That was a decent hit.
05:22Now, on your screen.
05:25Yeah, this was by limit from Williams.
05:27For unsafe release.
05:29Yeah, understood.
05:31Okay, so the usual barging shenanigans at the end of the pit lane.
05:35A little bit down in the first sector.
05:36Personal best in the middle.
05:38To the line for Hamilton.
05:40Manages to vault himself up ten positions.
05:43Up into ninth is Nando Norris.
05:46Formula One's latest race winner comes across the line on the medium tyre, though.
05:51Didn't see what he had on the soft yesterday.
05:53And maybe just keeping cards a little bit closer to his chest.
05:56He's quicker on the slower tyre.
05:58Exactly.
06:00So Mercedes have got to look behind them.
06:04This was the incident, actually, that just referred to Piastri.
06:07Was on a blinder of a lap.
06:09Coming through the second Rovazza.
06:11Seems like that's an easy move down into the gravel.
06:14Same place where Norris went wide yesterday when he was on a blinding lap.
06:17So, yeah, it shows there's potential in the McLaren, isn't it?
06:21If they hook the lap together, they're a real contender against the Ferraris.
06:26But now, this is a slight lull before the final pit we're going to get in the session.
06:31Piastri's absolutely storming around there.
06:39He's got a bit of traffic.
06:40I can see on the driver tracker up at the Variante Alta chicane.
06:44But he's now currently dropping downhill into the Rovazza.
06:47Gets the nose in.
06:48This is where we saw him run wide.
06:50Rovazza, too, last time around.
06:51No issues on this lap.
06:53Stays within track limits.
06:54Which, by the way, they're going to be monitoring and deleting laps and qualifying fastest on a 15.5.
07:00That's a strong line drawn in the sand by Oscar Piastri.
07:04Half a second clear of the Ferraris who set that lap time at the start of this session.
07:09They're both out of track.
07:10And it's a red bull into the wall.
07:11It's Sergio Perez.
07:13And it's a turn 15 round the lap.
07:16And we're looking into Variante Alta just coming off the chicane.
07:19He's gone front in.
07:20Red flag.
07:21And the Tifosi watching on for that one.
07:25Perez in the wall on a quick lap.
07:27Wow.
07:28Here we go, then.
07:29Here we go.
07:30He turns into Acromondale.
07:33Climbs uphill.
07:35And heading up towards the chicane.
07:39Ah, took a lot of curb in the rear of the car.
07:42When the rear right wheel went over that curb, it landed in an angle that he couldn't quite catch it.
07:48Watch here.
07:49Watch there when he goes over the curb.
07:52And sort of goes out of our camera angle.
07:54Hopefully this might show us a bit more.
07:56Hits the curb and then steps out of line and he can't catch it.
08:00It's not a whole heap of damage, but obviously the session is now come to a close.
08:07Another look at it there.
08:08Over that curb, the car lands at a funny angle.
08:10Can't catch it.
08:11So yeah, so just look at the sector times.
08:14He was four tenths down sector one, six tenths down the middle sector already on Piastri.
08:19So over a second down.
08:20Verstappen, by the way, was two and a half tenths down on Piastri in sector one.
08:25But this queuing is bad.
08:26I'm looking out of the commentary box window and...
08:29They're not all going to get a lap if they're all going to be stuck behind each other.
08:33It's got these sort of memories of Monza qualifying a few years ago.
08:37Yeah, and Verstappen some way back in the queue.
08:39I could see Sunoda as well and Ricciardo in the queue.
08:43So yeah, it's going to be a bit tight for the likes of Verstappen.
08:48A minute and a half left on the clock and just the two Ferraris make their way out of the pit lane.
08:54This isn't qualifying, by the way.
08:55This is free practice three.
08:57And the two Ferraris side by side coming through Tamburello.
09:01Everybody putting the soft Compana tire on with the exception of Verstappen.
09:07What a mess.
09:09The Ferrari having to duck and dive onto the main straight.
09:12Yeah, Gasly.
09:13Gasly just stopped at the apex of the second rivazza, which ruined his start of his lap.
09:20And now he's going to try go and get around the outside.
09:23But he doesn't have the speed advantage.
09:24But that just costs them both at the end of the day.
09:26Philando Norris, they've got himself in prime position along with the two Alpines and the two Ferraris.
09:32And Lance Stroll and the Aston Martin will see what they've got round the second rivazza.
09:37Philando Norris is a little bit down on his teammate in the first and second sectors.
09:42Crosses the line second fastest.
09:44In the first sector, wasn't it?
09:45Oh, just seeing the traffic that he got.
09:50And just into the build-up, you want to carry that momentum.
09:53And he just missed clipping the rear end of that Alpine.
09:58Oh, that was mighty close for Oscar Piaggio.
10:00We'll get another view of it here.
10:02Overhead, Gasly tried to get out of the way.
10:06And then the Ferrari comes sifling through as well.
10:09And it's just a complete mess and a car park coming through the rivazza.
10:14Yeah, it's hard with Gasly being too close to Albon in front of him.
10:18And then stopping, you know, quite late on.
10:20And that just created a mess for everyone behind.
10:22This is Kevin Magnussen at Accominarale.
10:25Gets through that and then...
10:26Whoa! Yikes!
10:28Doddling on the racing line.
10:29Don't know who that was.
10:30Oh, the two RBs.
10:32It was the RB of Ricciardo.
10:34Right, and brief.
10:35That was just practice.
10:37Phonetic end to FP3.
10:38Haven't even got to qualifying yet.
10:39Oscar Piastri topping the session, making it a McLaren 1-2.
10:44Carlos Sainz third in front of Charles Leclerc.
10:46The Ferrari's looking quick.
10:47Didn't quite see what they had in those final five minutes.
10:50Russell going well on the Mercedes, rounding out the top five.
10:53Verstappen sixth.
10:54Albon, Ocon, Stroll and Hülkenberg, as always,
10:58cheekily getting himself into the top ten in the Haas.
11:02About a second down, though, from Piastri.
11:04Ricciardo finding a bit more pace compared to his teammate, Sunoda, today.
11:0811th fastest in front of Perez.
11:10They'll be looking at the front end of that car after he crashed into the wall.
11:14Sunoda, Bottas, Logan, Sargent, the top 15.
11:17Magnussen, Lewis Hamilton down in 17.
11:19He didn't go out at the end of the day.
11:21Alonso, Pierre Gasly and Joe Guanyu 20th and last.