F1 Australian GP Live: Qualifying Starting Time, Power and Practice Results in front of Hamilton’s Ferrari -DeBut

Ok, now it’s a statement!

Verstappen goes P1 with four tenths to George Russell in second place!

Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz now the third and fourth respectively after their first laps on the softs … that williams look really good!

Russell goes P1 with a 1: 16: 402, 0.195 sec.

3-10: Verstappen, Leclerc, Hamilton, Albon, Sainz, Antonelli, Piastri, Tsunoda

Kiwi has not yet spent a time on this session.

Red Bull declaration: “The current problem on car 30 is a PU or PU system problem on the air side.

“We are working to find the problem.”

Best we’ve seen from Lewis yet!

He goes the third fastest behind Verstappen in 1st. And Leclerc in 2nd. And is only 0.031 seconds from the Red Bull driver!

I don’t know what Red Bull has done with their car overnight, but it looks much better than yesterday!

Verstappen sets a 1: 16: 646, 0.155 sec in front of Alex Albon now in second place!

3-10: Antonelli, Piastri, Leclerc, Norris, Sainz, Hulkenberg, Russell, Hamilton

Hamilton was on a personal best lap, but then left the lap in the second sector. Unsure why …

Aussia goes fastest with a 1: 17: 298, 0.334 seconds free of Max Verstappen in second place.

And Piastri is with compatriot Jack Doohan in top-three!

4-10: Leclerc, Antonelli, Sainz, Gasly, Ocon, Alonso, Albon

Bearsman’s Crash has been cleared via a truck and we get started in FP3 again!

50 minutes left in this session …

The only comfort for the 19-year-old is that he did not hit the wall … so no obvious damage to the car!

It was just his first flying lap! He touched the grass a little by turning 11 before turning into the gravel!

Nevertheless he is ready to be out of the session …

The Haas driver has spun into gravel!

A shake off the head from Brit in the cockpit ….