That concludes our live co🍰veragꦐe from qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.

You can keep across now for our༒ post-practi🦂ce reaction. We will be back tomorrow afternoon for FP3. 

The main conclusion from Friday in B🌼ahrain is that McLaren are clearly the team to beat heading into qualifying tomorrow.

Mercedes and Ferrari look clo♒sely matched in the battle for third on the grid. Red Bull look li🌜ke they will be relying on more brilliance from Verstappen.

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamꦍilton, Bearman and Sainz.

Hard to get a read of the race simulations with teams running on the softs. It's likely theꦫy will favour the mediums and hards on Sunday. 

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman▨ and Sainz is the top 10. 

A closer look at the steer𒉰ing issue which impacted Alonso early on i𒁃n FP2

Alonso moves into 15🔯tไh in the Aston Martin, 1.3s down on Piastri's top time.

Don't expect any other improvements or changes to the leaderboard as teams focus oꦏn heavy fuel ru🎀nning for the rest of the session.

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hami꧃lton, Bea🌳rman and Sainz. 

Leclerc moves his Ferrari up to fifth. He's 0.5s off Piastri's 🍸top time, ho🌞wever.

He moves up to seventh despi🅰te a major mistake in the final corner. ༺;

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Bearman, ♔Sainz, Leclerc and Albon.

Piastri goes even quicker and sets a 1m30.505s, a tenthไ a🔴head of Norris.

A 1m30.659s for Norris which puౠts him 0.6s clear of the field.

He lowers the benchmark again to a 1mꦓ31.330s to go 0.3s ahead of Albon.

A strong lap from Albon to go ahead of the𝔉 Ferraris 🎃- less than a tenth ahead of Leclerc.

A 1m31.729s puts🍨 Leclerc top of the order, a tenth ahead of teammate Hamilton.

A 1m31.915s on 🅺the softs as Hamilton goes fastest again. 

Russell (S), Hamilton (M), Antonelli (S), Verstappen (S), Piastri (H), Gasly (H), Leclerc (M), Hadjar (M), Norris (H) and A꧙lbon (M). 

Russell takes to the top now with a𝔉 1m31.945s to go 0.2s ahead of Hamilton. 

Replays show Al🅺onso's steering wheel detaching itself when drivin💞g into the final couple of corners. An unusual issue. 

Hamilton, Antonelli, ♉Russell, Piastri, Gasly, Leclercඣ, Hadjar, Norris, Albon and Tsunoda. 

Something wrong with his steering wheel as Alonso returns to the p🐟it lane. 

It's third-fastest for Russell in the Mercedes, a couple of tenths off Hamilton. The two Mercedes drivers have set their best time on the softඣ.s 

"The ride is v🥀ery bad. The car is jumping a lot," Verstap𝓀pen reports after his mistake.