He stays down in 14th, only a tenth ahead of Stroll who is the best of the runners currently in the elimination zone.
Stroll, Zhou, Albon, Tsunoda and Sargeant.
Sainz, Hamilton, Verstappen, Russell, Leclerc, Perez, Gasly, Ocon, Albon and Sargeant is the current order.
A 1m11.796s for Sainz, a tenth ahead of Hamilton. Russell slots into fourth, just behind Verstappen.
A 1m11.888s for Perez, 0.3s ahead of Perez.
Sainz and Hamilton are on course to beat it though.
No surprise to see a number of cars already out there with Verstappen, Perez, Hamilton and Russell all circulating on the mediums.
The first part of qualifying at Interlagos is underway with all drivers mandated to use the mediums in SQ1.
Norris and Verstappen are the only two drivers (out of the front five teams) to have two new sets of softs left.
Perez, Sainz and Piastri have no new softs.
Leclerc, Hamilton and Russell have one set for SQ3.
Hello everyone and welcome to the Crash.net live blog for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
It's sprint Saturday with the second qualifying session getting underway in just under 30 minutes.