2024 F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix - Final Practice - As it happened

How final practice finished up in Saudi Arabia...

Bearman goes eighth in the Ferrari after a mistake in the final sector. 

He's just under 0.2s off Verstappen's top time from earlier now.

Russell slots into second, 0.5s off Verstappen's top time.

We will be back underway in one minute. 

There will be five minutes on the clock for some final soft tyre runs.

Still under red flag conditions.

Current top 10: Verstappen, Leclerc, Alonso, Magnussen, Perez, Russell, Albon, Norris, Hulkenberg and Piastri.

"Sorry mate, lost the car. Yep sorry. Don't know what happened. Otherwise I am ok." 

He reports: "I hit something in Turn 10. I don't know if it was a plastic bottle or something that I hit with my front right tyre."

He's back in the pit lane.

He's improved his time to a 1m28.412s now, 0.8s clear of Leclerc.

Verstappen, Leclerc, Magnussen, Perez, Norris, Russell, Hulkenberg, Piastri, Albon and Alonso.

Magnussen moves into third in the Haas now, 0.592s off Verstappen's time.

Verstappen improves to a 1m28.893s to move 0.313s of Leclerc's time.

A 1m29.206s puts him 0.3s clear of Perez. Worth nothing that the Ferrari driver was on the mediums, not the softs like Perez.

Perez, Russell, Leclerc, Hamilton, Bearman, Albon, Gasly, Zhou, Tsunoda and Bottas.

Perez's first soft tyre effort puts him top of the pile with a 1m29.562s, 0.3s ahead of Russell.

The times continue to tumble in Saudi Arabia as Russell sets a 1m29.862s on the softs.

Leclerc slots into second on the mediums with a 1m30.008s.

A 1m30.253s from Hamilton on the softs puts him less than a tenth ahead of Bearman. 

All focus on the Ferrari driver as he goes clear at the top of the timesheets.

A 1m30.277s for him, 0.493s ahead of Bottas in the Sauber. 

A solid lap from the Ferrari driver to improve to a 1m31.273s, 0.480s off Hamilton's top time.

It's a 1m33.114s for Bearman, 1.8s off Bottas' current benchmark.