That concludes our live coverage from qualifying for the B🅰ahrain Grand Prix.

You can keep across now for our pos🐭t-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 tomor✱row.

Mercedes 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, Norris, 𓆉Russell, 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 fa⛦vour the mediums and hards on Sunday. 

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Le🃏clerc, Ant🧸onelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz is the top 10. 

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

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

Don't expect any other improvements or changes to the leaderboard as tea💛ms focus on heavy fuel runnꦉing for the rest of the session.

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Anto🅷nelli, Hadjar, Verstappen𝐆, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz. 

Lecler🐼c moves his Ferrari up to ཧfifth. He's 0.5s off Piastri's top time, however.

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

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Antonelli, Had🦩jar, Verstappen, Bearman, Sainz, Leclerc and Albon.

Piastri gꦺoes even quicker and sets a 1m30.505s, a tenth ahead of No༺rris.

A 1m30.659s for Norris which pᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚuts him 0.6s clear of the field﷽.

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

A strong lap from Albon to go ahead of the Ferraris - less 🃏than a tenth ahead of Lecl🧸erc.

A 1m3♛1.729s puts Leclerc top of the order, a tenth ahead of teammate Hamilton.

A 1m31.915s on the softs as Hamilton goes fastest ag♍ain. 

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

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

Replays show Alonso's st♏eering wheel detaching itself when driving into the final couple of corners. An unusuღal issue. 

Hamilton, Antonelli, Russell, ꩵPiastri, Gaslyꦅ, Leclerc, Hadjar, Norris, Albon and Tsunoda. 

Something wrong with his steering 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 drivers have set their best time on the soft.s 

"The ride is very bad. T💮he car is jumping a lot," Verstappen reports after his miಞstake.