| 10:50:40
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and live coverage of the Saturday morning practice session at Monza. The 60-minute session gets underway shortly. |
| 10:52:25
| Kimi Raikkonen was confirmed at Ferrari yesterday for the 2009 and 2010 seasons meaning there will be an unchanged line-up at the Italian team for the next two years. The Finn topped the Friday practice times with a best lap of 1:23.861s with half a second covering the top seven runners. |
| 10:54:25
| BMW Sauber were on top form in Friday practice with Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld second and third fastest, both within a tenth of a second of Raikkonen. Championship leader Lewis Hamilton was fourth fastest in his McLaren ahead of Nico Rosberg in the leading Williams and Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari. |
| 10:56:24
| Heikki Kovalainen set the seventh best time in the second McLaren ahead of Mark Webber in the Red Bull Renault. Webber has opted to fit a fresh engine for this Grand Prix, using the one free change per season rule and therefore does not receive a ten position grid penalty. |
| 10:58:23
| Both Toyota and Renault really struggled on Friday with Timo Glock and Jarno Trulli 17th and 19th, while Fernando Alonso was just 18th and Nelson Piquet slowest of all in 20th. |
| 11:00:04
| The rain is falling and the third practice session of the Italian Grand Prix weekend is now underway. |
| 11:00:24
| Adrian Sutil heads out in his Force India. |
| 11:01:05
| Half of the field heads out behind Sutil. It is raining hard again at Monza. |
| 11:01:30
| Forecasts are predicting the rains to continue all day. |
| 11:02:33
| All but Raikkonen, Massa and Kovalainen on an installation lap. The cars are now fitted with the race engine. |
| 11:03:01
| The early runners are returning to the pits. |
| 11:03:35
| Heikki Kovalainen, seventh fastest yesterday, is now in his installation lap. |
| 11:04:22
| Rubens Barrichello starts a second lap in his Honda. |
| 11:05:46
| Barrichello completes a second lap and pits. |
| 11:06:14
| No-one on track at the moment. |
| 11:08:16
| Barrichello heads straight back out on the intermediate tyre. The Brazilian enjoys the wet conditions and it is Honda's chance to show well in the conditions. |
| 11:08:55
| Timo Glock heads out in his Toyota as Barrichello starts a timed lap. |
| 11:09:24
| The best wet times yesterday were in the region of 1:37s. |
| 11:09:35
| Sutil is back out in his Force India. |
| 11:10:04
| Renault send out Alonso and Piquet. |
| 11:10:48
| Kubica and others are now heading out as Barrichello records the first lap of the session on a 1:40.5s. |
| 11:11:27
| Glock cuts the chicane but continues on the full wet tyres. |
| 11:12:25
| Glock's first lap is two seconds quicker than Barrichello's best. |
| 11:12:43
| Sutil posts his first lap and is third fastest. |
| 11:13:50
| Alonso moves fastest from Glock, Piquet, Trulli and Barrichello. |
| 11:14:20
| Glock improves by a big margin and is fastest again from Alonso. |
| 11:17:21
| Glock improves his own best time as Toyota team-mate Trulli moves second fastest. |
| 11:17:54
| Massa and Hamilton are out for the first time in this session. |
| 11:19:00
| Glock pits his Toyota as Nakajima and Webber record first times. |
| 11:19:25
| Button spins his Honda at the second chicane and continues. |
| 11:20:06
| Hamilton completed another lap and then pitted. |
| 11:21:07
| Massa moves seventh fastest on his first timed lap. |
| 11:22:18
| Nakajima improves and is now fourth fastest. |
| 11:22:48
| A gain for Massa who takes over the fourth position. |
| 11:23:08
| Vettel vaults third fastest, 1.5s off Glock's best. |
| 11:23:48
| Another gain from Nakajima as a number of drivers are having a problem slowing for the first chicane. |
| 11:24:16
| Raikkonen has not been on track yet in this session. |
| 11:24:32
| Vettel moves second fastest and splits the Toyota duo. |
| 11:24:59
| Rosberg moves up the order and joins his Williams team-mate in the top five. |
| 11:25:21
| Raikkonen heads out for the first time. |
| 11:26:49
| The rains continues to fall and is now heavier than earlier on. There is now a lot of spray. |
| 11:27:10
| Sutil moves fourth but he cut a chicane so that time will be deleted. |
| 11:27:48
| Vettel improves his time but remains second to Glock. |
| 11:28:26
| A slow first lap from Raikkonen at nearly six seconds off the pace. |
| 11:28:57
| A gain for Rosberg who moves ahead of Trulli. |
| 11:29:32
| The rain is now very hard almost like yesterday. |
| 11:30:17
| The drivers are all pitting as the heavy rain continues. |
| 11:30:41
| Trulli is the only driver on track and he too is on his way back to the pits. |
| 11:31:30
| Now Trulli pits and no-one is on track. |
| 11:33:00
| So there is no activity again due to the heavy rain. Glock's early laps keep him at the top of the timesheets while Vettel's more recent laps moved him second. |
| 11:35:52
| Still no activity as the rains fall, perhaps not as hard now. Hamilton, Kovalainen and Bourdais have yet to set a time. |
| 11:38:00
| Nick Heidfeld heads out in his BMW Sauber. |
| 11:39:27
| Sebastien Bourdais joins Heidfeld on track. |
| 11:41:26
| It is very wet and Heidfeld is lapping well off the pace of earlier. Nico Rosberg heads out. |
| 11:42:03
| With more rain forecast one concern is using up all of the wet tyres. There are four sets of intermediate tyres available and just three full wets for each driver. |
| 11:42:34
| Bourdais and Heidfeld pit and the conditions seems very difficult indeed. |
| 11:44:33
| Rosberg has pitted again and no-one is on track. |
| 11:47:20
| Now Lewis Hamilton heads out of the pit lane and makes a practice start. |
| 11:49:49
| Hamilton remains on track and is now on a timed lap. Timo Glock heads back out. |
| 11:50:23
| With rain expected all day, this is the final chance to see where the puddles are forming and where the circuit has grip. |
| 11:51:10
| Showing how wet it is, Hamilton's first lap is 15 seconds off Glock's pace. |
| 11:51:28
| Nine minutes remain as Bourdais heads back out. He has yet to set a time. |
| 11:53:07
| Hamilton's second lap is faster and he is now ten second off the ultimate pace. |
| 11:53:37
| Bourdais pits after an inspection lap. Nakajima heads out. |
| 11:54:03
| Glock pits his Toyota as Rosberg heads out in the second Williams. |
| 11:54:26
| Six minutes remain and Glock's time is not going to be beaten. |
| 11:55:03
| Hamilton pits as team-mate Kovalainen heads out. |
| 11:56:02
| Four minutes remain. Vettel heads out. |
| 11:57:00
| The circuit is still very wet. Glock is back out in the Toyota. |
| 11:58:42
| Kovalainen cuts the first chicane once again. His first lap is 12 seconds off the pace. |
| 11:59:20
| Glock, Vettel, Rosberg, Heidfeld, Button, Bourdais and Kovalainen on track. |
| 12:00:08
| A gain for Kovalainen as he moves ahead of Hamilton. |
| 12:00:12
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 12:01:27
| So Glock is fastest but that does not mean a great deal in these conditions. Glock receorded a 1:35.5. Bourdais has just improved a great deal and lapped less than four seconds off the ultimate pace. |
| 12:02:06
| So Glock is fastest from Vettel, Rosberg, Trulli, Nakajima, Heidfeld, Coulthard, Massa, Alonso and Fisichella. |
| 12:02:37
| Bourdais has a quick spin on his way back to the pits and we head into qualifying with a lot of questions remaining. |
