That concludes our live coverage📖 from qualifying for the Bahrain Grဣand Prix.

You can keep across now for our post-practice reaction. We 🎐will be back tomorrow afternoon for FP3. 

The main conclusion from Friday in Bahrain is that McLaren are clearly the𝔍 team to beat heading into quali♔fying tomorrow.

Mercedes and Ferrari look closely matched in the battle for third on the grid.ꦛ Red Bull look like they will be relying on more brilliance from Verstappen.

Piastri, Norris, Russell, L🏅eclerc, Anto♎nelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz.

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

Piastri, N🌞orris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz is the top 10. 

A closer look at the steer꧒ing issue which impacted Alonso early on in FP2

Alonso moves into 15th in the Aston Martin, 1.3𒁃s ✱down on Piastri's top time.

Don't expect any other improvements or changes to the leaderboar൲d as teams focus on heavy fuel running for the rest of the session.

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bear♛man and Sain꧋z. 

Lecl♉erc moves his Ferrari up to fifth. He's 0.5s o🏅ff Piastri's top time, however.

He moves up to seventh despite a major mistake in the final 𒐪corner. 

Piastri, Norris,🐈 Russ🦂ell, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Bearman, Sainz, Leclerc and Albon.

Piastri goes even qu💖icker and sets 🙈a 1m30.505s, a tenth ahead of Norris.

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

He lowers the benchmark again to a 1m31.330s to go 0.3💮s ahead of Albon.

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

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

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

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

Russell takes to ꦚt🌃he top now with a 1m31.945s to go 0.2s ahead of Hamilton. 

Replays sh꧂ow Alonso's steering wheel detaching it꧃self when driving into the final couple of corners. An unusual issue. 

Hamilton, Antonelli, Russell, Piastri, Gasly, Leclerc, Hadjar, Norris, Alboಞn and Tsunoda. 

Something wrong with his steeri𒐪ng wheel as Alonso returns to the pit lane. 

It's third-fastest for Russell in the Mercedes, a couple of tenths off Hamilton. The two Mercedes drไivers have se🐻t their best time on the soft.s 

"The rideꦓ is very badꦆ. The car is jumping a lot," Verstappen reports after his mistake.