That concludes our live coverage from qualifying for the𒀰 Bahrain Grand Prix.

You can keep a🌳cross now for o𝄹ur 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.

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, R𓆉ussell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadja🌺r, 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 Sunday. 

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Leclerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, 🐻Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz is the top 10. 

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

Alonཧso moves into 15th in the Aston Martin, 1.ཧ3s down on Piastri's top time.

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

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Le🅷clerc, Antonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Hamilton, Bearman and Sainz. 

Lec🐼lerc moves his Ferrari up to fifth. He's 0.5s off Pi🅰astri's top time, however.

He moves up to seventh despite a major✤ mistake i༒n the final corner. 

Piastri, Norris, Russell, Anꦍtonelli, Hadjar, Verstappen, Bearman, Sainz, Leclerc and Albon.

Piastri goes even quicker a✅nd sets a 1m30.505s, a tenth ah𓃲ead of Norris.

A 1m30.659s for N🦋orris which puts 🦋him 0.6s clear of the field.

He lowers the benchmark again to a ⛦1m31.330s t👍o go 0.3s ahead of Albon.

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

A 1m31.729s puꦉts Leclerc topꦡ of the order, a tenth ahead of teammate Hamilton.

A 1m31.915s on the softs as Hamilton goes fastest again.🍸 ⛎;

Russell (S), Hamilton (M), Antonelli (S), Verstappen (S), Piastri (H), Gasly (H), Leclerc (M), Hadjar (M), N📖orris (H) and Albon (M). 

Russell takes to the top now with a 1m31.945s to go 0.2s ꧅ahea🌳d of Hamilton. 

Replays show Alonso's steering wheel detaching itself when d🐠riving into the final couple of corners. An unusual issue. 

Hamilton, Antonelli, Russell, Piastri, Gasly, Leclerc, Hadjar, Norris, Albon and Tsunoda.&n🍃bsp;

Something wrong with his steering wheꦺel as Aꦛlonso returns to the pit lane. 

It's third-fastest for Russell in the Mercedes, a couple of tenths off Hamilton. The two Mercedes dri🗹vers have set their best time o🐲n the soft.s 

"The ride is very bad. The🦋 car is jumping a lot," Verstappen reports after his mistake.