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Brazilian GP
2014 Brazilian Grand Prix Friday - Practice
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Romain Grosjean has done the most running so far this afternoon, completing 26 laps in his Lotus.
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Alonso parks his Ferrari with a fire at the rear.
"Looking after that right rear," Mercedes says to Rosberg, before giving him some wind-related information.
Rosberg lapping over 3.7s slower than his fastest time.
Vettel lets Red Bull know that "the clutch was nowhere" as he began his latest run.
Everyone currently running is on softs, all doing longer/heavier runs to check race settings.
And the rest:
11 Maldonado
12 Grosjean
13 Hulkenberg
14 Gutierrez
15 Sutil
16 Button
17 Vergne
11 Maldonado
12 Grosjean
13 Hulkenberg
14 Gutierrez
15 Sutil
16 Button
17 Vergne
With an hour of FP2 gone the order is as follows:
1 Rosberg
2 Hamilton
3 Raikkonen
4 Ricciardo
5 Bottas
6 Massa
7 Alonso
8 Kvyat
9 Vettel
10 Magnussen
1 Rosberg
2 Hamilton
3 Raikkonen
4 Ricciardo
5 Bottas
6 Massa
7 Alonso
8 Kvyat
9 Vettel
10 Magnussen
A replay of Raikkonen's incident shows he got a bit squiffy under braking, locked up, headed down the escape road, had some 2012 race deja vu about finding a closed gate at the end, then drove back over the grass, rejoined and headed for the pits.
Raikkonen has a lengthy trip over the grass at the final corner.
"I've got a sudden torque increase out of Turn 4," Rosberg tells Mercedes.
Grosjean and Lotus continue to bicker over the radio about the order of fast laps and cool-down laps required.
Raikkonen improves to P3, 0.573s behind Rosberg.
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Hulkenberg tells Force India he has "a lot of understeer".
Hamilton was on course to go fastest but heads into the pits instead.
Mercedes tells Hamilton that "it looks like it's a 'lap one' tyre", as in, you'll only have one shot on it in Q3.
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Button's feedback to McLaren includes an ironic "also we seemed to have the whole field behind us when we started our out-lap..."
Fernando Alonso in P6, is the last man within a second of Nico Rosberg's time.
Hamilton has a big lock-up into the Senna S after that lap and then sails over the run-off area.
That lap from Massa was a little hairy through the middle sector.
Lewis Hamilton closes the gap to Rosberg to just over two tenths of a second.
Massa improves his time, but stays in P5.
McLaren recommends Magnussen pits as it doesn't think other cars are improving as they go further into their stints.
Valtteri Bottas now moves ahead of Massa into P4 after switching to the soft tyres.
A slight lock-up from Button at the Senna S on his lap too.
Kvyat locks up and gets a little sideways into Turn 8.
Felipe Massa improves to P4 with the soft tyres.
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"Do you want to box or go for another lap, Nico?" asks Mercedes. "Errrr," replies Rosberg, then pauses for...ages... then asks what others are doing.
Daniil Kvyat jumps up to P4.
Hamilton, also on the soft tyres, is 0.599s slower than Rosberg in P2.
"There is some serious stuff going wrong," Vettel tells Red Bull, who is sure "something is not working" on his car.
Hamilton runs very wide through Mergulho.
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Nico Rosberg uses the soft tyres to go fastest with 1m12.123s.
"It looks like the same [MGU-]K problem," Sauber mournfully tells Gutierrez.
Sauber orders Gutierrez to stop his car (again).
Hamilton sits in second place, just 0.116s behind Ricciardo with Rosberg just over two tenths of a second further back.
Ricciardo is one of the first drivers to try the soft tyre today, and it found him 0.6s for that first place lap.
Ricciardo's mistake came just moments after his took the top spot. It prompted a bit of rueful chin-rubbing from Christian Horner.
Stopwatch
Ricciardo moves to P1 with a 1m12.956s.
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