That concludes🍰 our live coverage from qualifying for the Bahrain Grand 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 the team to 𝄹beat heading into qualifying tomorrow.

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

Piastri, No꧙rris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz.

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

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearmanℱ and Sainz is theꦉ top 10. 

A closer lo🍷ok at the steering issue which impacted Alonso early on in FP2

Alonso moves into 15th in the Aston M🐬artin, 1.3s down on Piastri's top time.

Don't expect any other improvements or changes to the leaderboard as t✨eams focus on heavy fu✨el running for the rest of the session.

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadj🔯ar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz. 

Leclerc moves his Ferrari up to fifth. He's 0.5s off✅ 🐈Piastri's top time, however.

He moves up to seventh despite a major mistake in the fin🍃al corner♎. 

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Antonelli, Ha𒁃djar, Verstappen, Bearman, Sainz, Lecler🐼c and Albon.

Piastri goes even quicker and sets a 1m30.505s, a🎀 tenth ahead of Norris.

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

He lowers the benchma🥂rk again toꩲ a 1m31.330s to go 0.3s ahead of Albon.

A strong lapඣ from Albon to go ahead of the Ferraris - less than a tenth ahead of L💫eclerc.

A 1m𓆉31.729s puts Leclerc top of the order, a tenth ahead of teammate Hamilton.

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

Russell (S), Hamilton (M), Antonelli (S), Verstappen (S), Piast💎ri (H), Gasly (H), Leclerc (M), Hadjar (M), Norris (H) and Albon (M). 

Russell takes to the top now with a 1🍒m31.945s to go 0.2s ahead of Hamilton.&nbs🐈p;

Replays show Alonso's steering wheel detaching itself when driving into the⛄ final couple of corners. An unusua𝔍l issue. 

Hamiltܫon, Antonel👍li, Russell, Piastri, Gasly, Leclerc, Hadjar, Norris, Albon and Tsunoda. 

Something wrong with his steering wheel as Alonso returns to the pit lane.&🍸nbsp;

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

"The ride is ve🧜ry bad. The car is jumping a lot," Verstappen reports after his mistake.