| 10:50:40
| Welcome to F1-Live.com and live coverage of Saturday morning practice sessions from Shanghai. The 60-minute session begins shortly. |
| 10:52:44
| Lewis Hamilton dominated the Friday running, setting the pace in both sessions and recording a best lap of 1:35.630s on the harder tyre in the morning sessions. Championship rival Felipe Massa was four-tenths adrift in the morning and then seven-tenths in the afternoon. |
| 10:54:45
| A late run from the Renault duo of Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet saw them move second and third fastest in the afternoon ahead of Jarno Trulli in the Toyota, Mark Webber in his Red Bull and Massa in the leading Ferrari. |
| 10:56:51
| Sebastien Bourdais had a good run in his Toro Rosso, despite eventually spinning out of the session. He ended the afternoon seventh fastest ahead of Kimi Raikkonen, Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg. Heikki Kovalainen was just 13th in the second McLaren while Honda brought up the rear with Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello. |
| 10:58:39
| Today’s running is likely to see some of the front-runners concentrate on running with a relatively heavy fuel load on board, while some of the slower teams may opt for a low tank run to see how much performance they have for the first and second round of qualifying. |
| 11:00:07
| The third practice session of the weekend is now underway. |
| 11:00:59
| Giancarlo Fisichella leads out Sutil, Trulli, Nakajima, Alonso, Glock and others for an installation lap. |
| 11:01:33
| All on track for an installation lap apart from Raikkonen, Hamilton and Massa. |
| 11:01:53
| Hamilton heads out. |
| 11:02:30
| The cars now have the race engines fitted, so any failure from now on does result in an engine change penalty. |
| 11:03:07
| Alonso runs off track on his installation lap. The early runners are now returning to the pits. |
| 11:03:33
| Kazuki Nakajima starts a second lap in his Williams. |
| 11:04:07
| Nico Rosberg is also on a second lap in his Williams. |
| 11:05:26
| Nakajima and Rosberg both pit. No-one on track. |
| 11:05:53
| Everyone has been out except Raikkonen and Massa. |
| 11:06:18
| A quick stop for the Williams duo who head straight back out. |
| 11:08:27
| Another lap from Nakajima and Rosberg and they pit. |
| 11:10:14
| The FIA announced yesterday that they are opening up a tender for a third party to supply engines for 2010. This being F1, many see this as a tactic rather than a cast iron decision to introduce standard engines. Some of the teams certainly do not want this. Politics as ever rule the sport. |
| 11:10:23
| No-one on track. |
| 11:11:01
| Fernando Alonso heads out in his Renault. |
| 11:11:14
| Jarno Trulli heads out in his Toyota. |
| 11:11:51
| Timo Glock joins the action in the second TF108. |
| 11:12:36
| Nelson Piquet is out in the second Renault. |
| 11:12:56
| Adrian Sutil joins the action. |
| 11:13:27
| Alonso is now on his first timed lap. Fisichella is out in the second Force India. |
| 11:14:29
| Alonso's first lap is a 1:38.5, roughly 2.5s off his own Friday best. |
| 11:15:45
| All change as Piquet is now fastest from Glock, Alonso and Trulli as the first laps are completed. |
| 11:16:04
| Heikki Kovalainen, 13th yesterday, heads out. |
| 11:16:29
| Kimi Raikkonen is out for the first time this morning. |
| 11:17:29
| Piquet improves his own best to a 1:37.4, a second ahead of Alonso at the moment. |
| 11:17:53
| The circuit is now busy with most, including Massa, on track. |
| 11:18:09
| Alonso pits his Renault. |
| 11:19:43
| Raikkonen's first lap moves him third fastest behind Piquet and Glock. |
| 11:20:22
| Glock takes over at the top of the timesheets in his Toyota ahead of Piquet and Raikkonen. |
| 11:20:47
| Coulthard moves third fastest with Kubica is up to fifth. |
| 11:21:09
| All on track apart from Alonso. |
| 11:22:22
| Kovalainen has been working his way up the order and is now fastest from Glock, Piquet and Rosberg. |
| 11:23:05
| Hamilton is on his first timed lap of the session. Massa is currently seventh. |
| 11:23:26
| Hamilton's first lap moves him fastest by a slim margin over Kovalainen. |
| 11:24:11
| A gain from Massa as he now takes over at the top by a tenth from Hamilton. |
| 11:25:03
| Now Bourdais takes over the fastest time on a 1:36.9 ahead of Massa, Hamilton and Kovalainen. |
| 11:26:38
| Alonso is back out but just 18th at the moment. |
| 11:27:08
| Hamilton finds some more pace and retakes P1 in his McLaren from Bourdais. |
| 11:29:08
| Hamilton has stopped after missing the entry into the pit lane. He really does seem to have trouble with this pit lane! He selects reverse and is back into the pits. |
| 11:30:56
| Clarification: It was the pit lane entry that Hamilton stopped in, not the circuit itself. He went straight on to avoid the infamous gravel trap. |
| 11:31:16
| He remains fastest from Bourdais as Barrichello has vaulted third fastest in his Honda. |
| 11:32:09
| Alonso remains down in 17th with Heidfeld also off the pace in 18th. |
| 11:33:08
| The front-runners have now pitted. Glock remains on track as does Piquet and Heidfeld who has just improved to 13th. |
| 11:33:58
| Piquet moves eighth fastest, half a second off the ultimate pace. |
| 11:36:15
| Kovalainen, Piquet, Kubica, Button, Sutil and Fisichella on track. |
| 11:37:33
| Button moves up the order to 11th. The Honda duo yesterday were battling with the Force Indias at the bottom of the timesheets. |
| 11:38:06
| Hamilton heads back out as team-mate Kovalainen is now on a hot lap as he starts his second stint. |
| 11:39:03
| Kovalainen moves fastest in his McLaren on a 1:36.6. |
| 11:40:04
| Bourdais, third, is back out. He is having a good weekend again. |
| 11:41:07
| Alonso remains down in 18th in the second Renault. |
| 11:41:43
| Hamilton retakes the fastest time on a 1:36.4s from Kovalainen, Bourdais, Barrichello, Massa and Rosberg. |
| 11:42:00
| Raikkonen, 12th, is back out. |
| 11:44:59
| Webber's Renault engine has expired in his Red Bull. He has pulled off track and is out of the session. |
| 11:45:48
| Webber, 13th in this session, now faces a ten position drop on the grid for an engine change. |
| 11:47:19
| The McLaren duo are in the pits. Bourdais, third, is on track as is Massa in fifth position. |
| 11:48:53
| A gain from Fisichella as he moved 17th in his Force India. |
| 11:49:32
| Piquet moves fourth fastest in his Renault. |
| 11:50:01
| Ten minutes remain. |
| 11:51:32
| Glock, ninth, is back out and on a better lap. |
| 11:52:29
| On a low fuel run I suspect, Button joins Barrichello in the top six. |
| 11:53:06
| Now Trulli moves up the order and is now eighth fastest. |
| 11:53:52
| Six minutes remain as Hamilton heads back out. He remains two-tenths clear of team-mate Kovalainen. |
| 11:55:55
| Hamilton is on the softer tyre for his final run. Yesterday he was slower on the option tyre. |
| 11:57:26
| Hamilton does improve on the soft tyre and is now fastest by four-tenths of a second. Kubica is now on a low fuel run looking to move up from 14th. |
| 11:57:41
| Kubica vaults second fastest in his BMW Sauber. |
| 11:57:59
| Kovalainen improves but remains third. |
| 11:58:26
| All 20 drivers on track for a final run. |
| 11:58:56
| Heidfeld now moves fastest in his BMW Sauber. |
| 12:00:04
| The chequered flag is out. |
| 12:00:38
| Trulli moves fifth fastest. |
| 12:01:00
| Alonso moves 15th but not a good session for the back to back Grand Prix winner. |
| 12:02:31
| So we have Nick Heidfeld fastest in this session on a 1:36.0 from Hamilton, Kubica, Kovalainen, Trulli, Rosberg, Bourdais, Coulthard, Nakajima and Piquet. |
| 12:02:53
| Massa is just 12th ahead of Raikkonen. |
