| 10:50:16
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and coverage of the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend. This morning is the final practice session ahead of qualifying later on today. |
| 10:52:52
| Kimi Raikkonen set the pace in both of the Friday practice sessions. The Ferrari driver set a best time of 1:33.162s in the morning session. |
| 10:54:35
| While Raikkonen dominated the morning session, the afternoon saw the times much closer as most opted to take longer runs. Lewis Hamilton was second fastest in that session just a fraction - 0.013s - slower. |
| 10:56:13
| Robert Kubica took over the spare BMW Sauber and set the third fastest time even though he was not particularly happy with the balance. |
| 10:57:55
| With less than a second covering the top 11 runners, Felipe Massa was fourth fastest in his Ferrari ahead of Fernando Alonso, Alex Wurz, Nick Heidfeld, Nico Rosberg, David Coulthard, Jarno Trulli and Rubens Barrichello. |
| 11:00:08
| It is cloudy and hot and the session is now underway. |
| 11:00:32
| The Toyota duo of Ralf Schumacher and Jarno Trulli are first out. |
| 11:01:09
| Kubica, Speed, Kovalainen, Liuzzi, Fisichella and Sato head out. |
| 11:01:49
| With the race engines now fitted, any engine failure from now on will incur a penalty. Jenson Button lost an engine yesterday, but has no penalty. |
| 11:02:23
| Massa and Raikkonen remain in the pits, the rest are all out for their installation lap. |
| 11:03:28
| Sato and Davidson remain on track for Super Aguri Honda. |
| 11:05:09
| Davidson and Sato set their first timed laps around two seconds off the Friday pace. |
| 11:05:30
| The others have all returned to the pits. |
| 11:06:42
| Sato improves and is fastest from Davidson. |
| 11:07:51
| Davidson pits his Super Aguri. |
| 11:09:09
| Adrian Sutil and Ralf Schumacher are back out for Spyker and Toyota. |
| 11:09:33
| Christijan Albers is also on track in his Spyker as Sato pits. |
| 11:11:44
| Kovalainen, Trulli, Heidfeld and Liuzzi join the action. |
| 11:12:39
| First laps from Ralf Schumacher, Sutil and Albers. |
| 11:13:31
| Heidfeld moves to the top of the timesheets. |
| 11:14:47
| Speed and Liuzzi move up the order as Fisichella and Kubica head out. |
| 11:15:41
| The teams are all running the hard tyres at the moment. At the end of the session many will try a softer medium compound to prepare for qualifying. |
| 11:16:12
| Kimi Raikkonen heads out in his Ferrari on what is probably just an installation lap. |
| 11:16:37
| Heidfeld is now about three-tenths off his Friday best. |
| 11:17:22
| Felipe Massa is now on track. |
| 11:18:00
| Raikkonen starts his first timed lap as Heidfeld pits. |
| 11:18:48
| Kubica and Wurz move second and third fastest. |
| 11:19:20
| Raikkonen moves fastest, a tenth faster than his afternoon best from yesterday. |
| 11:19:47
| Now Massa vaults second fastest in the sister F2007. |
| 11:20:12
| Alonso and Hamilton are out for McLaren as Coulthard jumps up the order in his Red Bull Renault. |
| 11:21:07
| Now Massa improves and is fastest from Raikkonen and Coulthard. |
| 11:21:39
| Hamilton moves third fastest. Alonso is on his first lap as Raikkonen runs wide. |
| 11:23:19
| Alonso's first lap is good for P6. |
| 11:23:31
| Hamilton improves and is up to second. |
| 11:24:14
| Kovalainen and Fisichella are currently way down the order for Renault. |
| 11:24:50
| Alonso and Hamilton pit. |
| 11:25:28
| Raikkonen improves and moves fastest so we have a Ferrari one-two again. |
| 11:26:28
| Red Bull are running well so far with Coulthard fourth and Webber moving up to tenth. |
| 11:28:14
| Renault are now at the bottom of the timesheets. The front-runners have pitted. |
| 11:29:08
| Coulthard ran off track in the RB3 and returned to the pits. |
| 11:29:43
| Albers and Sutil are moving up the order for Spyker Ferrari. |
| 11:31:00
| A small improvement from Fisichella. |
| 11:31:59
| Takuma Sato is back out and looking to move up from 18th position in the Super Aguri. |
| 11:32:58
| The McLaren crew are working hard on Hamilton's McLaren Mercedes. David Coulthard is back out in the RB3. |
| 11:33:29
| Sato does improve but is not showing the pace displayed in Melbourne. |
| 11:34:15
| Heidfeld, fifth, is back out in his BMW Sauber. |
| 11:35:08
| Hamilton and Massa head back out. |
| 11:36:32
| Now Robert Kubica heads out as Coulthard runs off track again. |
| 11:38:35
| Hamilton moves fastest as Raikkonen is back out. Massa also improves and is up to second. |
| 11:38:59
| Alonso remains in the pits and the other front-runners are back out. |
| 11:39:52
| A big jump for Jenson Button as he moves fourth. He must be on a qualifying run in that Honda. |
| 11:41:12
| The times are coming down as now Anthony Davidson vaults fourth fastest in his Super Aguri Honda. |
| 11:41:48
| Fourth is a popular position as now Wurz takes the place in his Williams as Rosberg improves as well. |
| 11:42:49
| Alonso is back out for McLaren and is on a faster lap. |
| 11:44:19
| Rosberg moves ahead of his team-mate as Alonso takes P4. Kovalainen is back out and looking to get off the bottom of the timesheets. |
| 11:47:13
| Raikkonen and Alonso have both pitted joining their team-mates in the pits. Kovalainen gains two positions and is now 20th. |
| 11:47:33
| Heidfeld and Webber on track. |
| 11:47:55
| Webber moves fifth fastest just ahead of his former team. |
| 11:48:43
| Nick Heidfeld sets the fastest lap of the race weekend to date and is fastest for BMW Sauber. |
| 11:50:05
| Massa back out for Ferrari. Nick Heidfeld improves his own best. |
| 11:50:37
| Fisichella is out of the car and seems to have a mechanical problem on the Renault. |
| 11:50:57
| Speed (18th) has stopped on track in the Toro Rosso. |
| 11:51:19
| Kubica move second fastest |
| 11:52:49
| Speed had some kind of gearbox or engine failure on the STR2. He is out of the car and heading back to the pits. |
| 11:53:30
| Davidson vaults up the order and is now third fastest. |
| 11:54:21
| Massa was on a fast lap but ran wide and then pitted the Ferrari. |
| 11:55:59
| Four minutes remain and Raikkonen and Hamilton are back out. |
| 11:56:33
| Fisichella is back out in the Renault as is team-mate Kovalainen. |
| 11:56:54
| Raikkonen moves fastest. |
| 11:57:10
| Now Hamilton moves ahead by a narrow margin. |
| 11:57:40
| Coulthard (11th) is coasting and has a problem on the Red Bull. He stops. |
| 11:58:35
| Coulthard is actually using the gradient to keep rolling at walking pace. |
| 11:58:56
| Alonso is back out for McLaren. |
| 11:59:37
| Fisichella vaults up into the top ten in his Renault. |
| 12:00:21
| Now Kovalainen also improves in the Renault and up to tenth. |
| 12:00:32
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 12:01:47
| Lewis Hamilton is fastest by less than a hundedth of a second from Raikkonen, Heidfleld, Kubica, Davidson, Massa and Alonso who does not improve on his final lap. |
| 12:02:09
| There's some reports of rain in the air. It is certainly overcast. |
