LIVE: Russian Grand Prix qualifying

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Follow live coverage of qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix from Sochi Autodrom with F1i.

An exciting session is in store as Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were separated by less than 0.1s in final practice, with Ferrari a further 0.6s back as Sebastian Vettel recovered from Friday's problems. However, the German will have a five-place grid penalty applied after qualifying due to a gearbox change.

LIVE: Russian Grand Prix - Qualifying

Williams had the better of Red Bull in final practice but Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat are expected to bounce back in qualifying. McLaren and Toro Rosso also look closely matched in the battle for Q3, with the former yet to reach the final part of qualifying since Honda's return to F1.

Q1 will see a fight between Sauber, Manor, Renault and Haas to avoid being eliminated in the first part of the session, with the bottom 10 drivers covered by 0.8s in final practice.

Practice has so far seen a number of mistakes made by drivers due to the low grip conditions. Turn 13 proved troublesome during FP3, with Hamilton, Fernando Alonso, Sergio Perez and Romain Grosjean all going off at the same corner, while numerous errors have also been made at Turn 2.

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.