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Formula 1 Brazilian GP

2014 Brazilian Grand Prix Friday - Practice

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Hamilton is responding to Rosberg, setting a new benchmark pace in sector one.
Grosjean gets out of shape and takes a trip through the run-off at Laranjinha.
Nasr brings his Williams back into fourth, between Raikkonen and Kvyat.
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Rosberg now reclaims the top spot from Hamilton with a 1m5.002s, that's 0.335s faster.
BEN ANDERSON is down at Turn 4 for us at the moment, and he says cars are sparking over the bumps as they approach the braking zone.
Current lead order:

1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 Raikkonen
4 Kvyat
5 Alonso
6 Nasr
7 Ricciardo
8 Massa
9 Sutil
10 Verstappen
Nasr is complaining of low grip.
Now Raikkonen takes third from Kvyat.
Kvyat takes third from Alonso.
That spin has wrecked Juncadella's first set of tyres. Fortunately, those were only eligible for use for another seven minutes.
Alonso moves back into third place. Constant improvements through the field as drivers settle into the revised track.
Juncadella - on reserve duty for Force India in this session - is the latest driver to lose the back end at Laranjinha. He had a minor twitch on the way in, but couldn't catch it before it turned into a full-on spin.
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Hamilton comes through 0.113s faster than Rosberg to take first place with a 1m15.337s.
Improvements from Friday guests Nasr and Verstappen move them into second and third behind Rosberg.
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Rosberg's second lap puts him fastest on a 1m15.450s.
Sutil jumps to second in the Sauber, 0.274s behind Alonso.
The two Mercedes kick off with slow laps in seventh and 10th places.
Kvyat sticks his Toro Rosso in between Alonso and Raikkonen in second.
The Ferradura/Laranjinha combination (Turns 6/7 in F1 speak, probably), is proving particularly troublesome at the moment.
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Kimi Raikkonen beats Verstappen by three tenths to go quickest, with Alonso then beating his team-mate to make it a Ferrari one-two.
Sutil goes off at the same place Verstappen had trouble. The brand new surface here is not giving much grip as the first cars start to clean it up.
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Verstappen's next lap is a 1m17.712s, 2.6s up on early times from Sutil and Kvyat.
The Toro Rosso tries to bite Verstappen again in the long 'Laranjinha' right-hander.
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Verstappen completes the lap in 1m19.999s to set our first time.
Verstappen runs wide into Turn 1, gets a wheel on the grass and then gets out of shape before gathering it all up for Turn 1.
The Toro Rossos and Sutil's Sauber are on track again now.
Unsurprisingly the Dane doesn't go for a flying lap with what looks like some shopping trolleys attached to his car. He pits again.
Magnussen's car is sporting some big aero sensors behind the front wheels.
Kevin Magnussen is the first man back out in the functioning McLaren.
All quiet on track for now, everyone back in the pits eight minutes into the session.
Button on the radio: "Everything's just shut off - everything's just switched off. All the power, everything's gone."
Maldonado is asked to perform a DRS check, and he confirms that it's not working.
On-board replays suggest Button's car shut itself down as he was slowing on approach to the pitlane speed limit line.
All 18 cars have managed an installation lap or two and headed back in.
The McLaren is getting a push from marshals to get him over the white line to get him officially into the pits. Now his mechanics are making their way down to him, and they take over pushing duties.
Button has stopped just after negotiating his way through the pit entry.
The first few cars to leave the pits stopped for practice starts before joining the track, but the pit exit lane got a bit too busy for those that followed.
Also hitting the track rapidly are Friday testers Max Verstappen (Toro Rosso) , Felipe Nasr (Williams - for now) and Daniel Juncadella (Force India), plus Romain Grosjean, the Ferraris, Felipe Massa and Daniil Kvyat.
Green flag
The green light comes on the begin the session and Lotus's Pastor Maldonado is first out.

By: Glenn Freeman, Matt Beer, AUTOSPORT staff

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