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Formula 1
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2013 Italian Grand Prix Friday practice one
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67 min: Pic is winning the Caterham battle, and a 1m28.065s improves his time but does not move him up from 20th position.
66 min: Maldonado has been off track but he was able to continue at the Ascari Chicane. He heads straight for the pits.
66 min: Button edges a fraction closer to his team-mate, personal best first and final sectors improving his time to 1m26.035s.
66 min: Massa is back on track in the Ferrari. The Brazilian has clocked just eight laps so far, the joint-lowest alongside Paul di Resta.
65 min: Rosberg heads out for another run and clearly gets left and right mixed up, as he practices a start from the end of the pitlane.
65 min: Grosjean caps a solid if unspectacular lap with another green final sector, and goes 10th on a 1m26.295s.
64 min: Hulkenberg starts a flier and promptly follows Grosjean's example from the lap before, running straight on at the first chicane.
64 min: Grosjean navigates the first chicane without drama this time, and sets a personal best in sector one.
63 min: Button improves to seventh on a 1m26.083s, one place behind team-mate Perez whose early effort is still enough to keep him near the sharp end.
62 min: While team-mate Raikkonen sits in the garage, Grosjean runs straight on at the first chicane.
61 min: Hamilton is looking good this time round, but he has a poor final sector and does not improve the benchmark after posting two fastest sector times.
61 min: Gutierrez is enjoying a competitive session. He improves to eighth on a 1m26.194s.
60 min: Button shuffles up the leaderboard from 16th. He goes 14th with a 1m26.766s.
59 min: Maldonado comes back out for another run. The Venezuelan is 10th in the classification, with a best time of 1m26.545s.
59 min: Button starts a flier in his McLaren. Team-mate Perez is on track as well.
59 min: Grosjean, 11th at the moment on a 1m26.593s, is back out in the Lotus.
58 min: Alonso blitzes the first two sectors but is slightly slower in the final part of the lap, but still improves to second on a 1m25.600s
57 min: Di Resta has put down some laps and the Scot is up to 15th position in the other Force India, with a best time of 1m26.879s.
57 min: So Hamilton puts 0.298s between himself and Alonso, with Vettel third, Rosberg fourth, Raikkonen fifth and Perez in sixth spot.
57 min: Alonso, after that front wing change, had a couple of pedestrian laps upon rejoining the circuit but he's upping the ante now.
56 min: Chilton joins in the fun again. He's 18th at the moment on a 1m27.869s.
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55 min: Vettel is back out for another run of laps. He remains in second place, but no - that becomes third as Hamilton tops the pile with 1m25.565s.
54 min: On rejoining the circuit, Hamilton rode squarely over one of the yellow and black speed humps. That will not have done his Mercedes' floor much good.
54 min: Alonso and Perez are back on track.
53 min: Barreling down under the trees on-board with Hamilton as he approaches the Roggia chicane... And we exit stage right as the Briton misses his braking point. He takes to the escape road and continues.
53 min: Meanwhile Gutierrez has improved to a 1m27.116s. He's now 14th, and ahead of team-mate Hulkenberg.
53 min: Gonzalez pits with 15 laps under his belt so far in the Marussia.
52 min: Di Resta is finally out for his first run since the installation lap much earlier in the session.
52 min: Alonso is in the pits for a nose change. Meanwhile McLaren mechanics check over Button's rear wing. He's under investigation for unauthorised use of DRS.
51 min: The top four spread between Alonso, Vettel, Rosberg and Raikkonen is now just 0.078s, with Perez only 0.144s back in fifth spot.
50 min: Gutierrez does indeed set a time at the 10th time of asking. He's 16th on a 1m27.761s.
49 min: Raikkonen, now bumped down to third, rejoins the fray.
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48 min: Alonso goes fastest on a 1m25.863s.
48 min: Gutierrez is on track again. Will the Mexican finally set a time?
48 min: Alonso backed off for his third lap but is on it now, going purple in sector one.
48 min: Vettel is back into the pits after his first run, while we have 0.095s covering the top four drivers for now.
47 min: Gonzalez has been the busiest man in this session, he's on his 13th lap at the moment.
46 min: Jean-Eric Vergne posts his best lap of the session so far, but 1m27.234s only places the Frenchman 13th.
46 min: The Ferrari driver pops up to fourth on a 1m26.009s, two-thousandths slower than Sergio Perez.
45 min: Alonso's first flier has him 12th, on a 1m27.204s and he's going purple on his second effort.
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