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Formula 1 Azerbaijan GP

Azerbaijan GP Friday practice

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Hartley improves to go 11th.
Street circuit racing is all about skimming the walls.

Street circuit racing is all about skimming the walls.

Yellow flag
Sirotkin has been straight on at Turn 3, having had a wobble on the brakes. He rejoins.
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Top 10 with six minutes to go: 1 Bottas, 2 Ricciardo, 3 Hamilton, 4 Ocon, 5 Verstappen, 6 Perez, 7 Alonso, 8 Sirotkin, 9 Vettel, 10 Stroll.
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Sirotkin often has to have a couple of bites on turn in to Turn 12, but he's usually able to carry reasonable speed through and onto the straight. It's still a car with some turn-in instability but it's looking better than it did.
Grosjean scuffs the wall on the exit of Turn 2, leaving a nice patch on the wall and on his tyre sidewall.
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Hamilton reports "the car won't turn left..."
Perez improves late on, he goes fifth behind Ocon.
Another lock-up for Grosjean, who has visible flat-spots on his front tyres and goes off at Turn 1.
Grosjean improved to 15th just before that latest lock-up.
Vettel heads back out, while we've not seen Raikkonen for a long time and his Ferrari is being taken apart on stands in the garage.
Checkered flag
And there's the chequered flag. Bottas just 0.035s faster than Ricciardo in FP1.
Latest of late improvements from Perez, who moves up to third in the Force India.
Grosjean also finds a bit more time to move up a place to 14th.
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Vandoorne is told to stay out and give Alonso a tow past the chequered flag. McLaren already making plans for qualifying.
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Top 10 in FP1: 1 Bottas, 2 Ricciardo, 3 Perez, 4 Hamilton, 5 Ocon, 6 Verstappen, 7 Alonso, 8 Sirotkin, 9 Gasly, 10 Vettel.
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That's a wrap for FP1. Bottas beat Ricciardo to the fastest time, but a crash for the second Red Bull of Verstappen and an unusual top 10 means the early order is far from clear. Join us again in a couple of hours for live coverage of FP2:

Baku F1 practice: Bottas fastest, Verstappen crashes in FP1

Valtteri Bottas topped first practice for Formula 1's Azerbaijan Grand Prix while Max Verstappen crashed his Red Bull during Friday's opening session

Baku F1 practice: Bottas fastest, Verstappen crashes in FP1
And we're back. Welcome to live coverage from FP2 for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
There's going to be a fair bit of attention on Ferrari in this session after a subdued FP1. The drivers were unhappy with the rear grip levels in particular, and Raikkonen's session ended early in the garage. We don't normally see the red cars a couple of seconds off the pace, so FP2 should give us a more accurate idea of where Ferrari stands in Baku.
Green flag
FP2 begins. Not quite as much action as we saw at the start of the first session.
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Sainz, bottom of the order in FP1, sets the first time of this session: 1m48.4s.
Work is ongoing in the Red Bull garage to get Verstappen's car ready after his crash in the first session. He's at the back of the garage keeping a close eye on things.
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Leclerc moves ahead of Sainz with a 1m46.7s.
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Hartley now quickest in the Toro Rosso with a 1m46.3s, and Magnussen slots into second, two tenths down.
Vettel has been for a slow-speed trip down the Turn 2 escape road.

By: Geoff Creighton

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