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Formula 1 Azerbaijan GP

Azerbaijan GP Friday practice

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Vettel improves to go 11th on his ultrasofts.
Radio Comms
Hulkenberg is struggling to even make it back to the pits, the vibrations from his flat-spotted tyre are so bad.
Ricciardo is seven laps into this run on supersofts, and he improves again to end up just 0.035s down on Bottas's ultrasoft time. Red Bull in the hunt again?
Stroll improves, and he puts the Williams ninth. Team-mate Sirotkin is just ahead in eighth. With the Force Indias also in the top 10, this session is going better than the rest of the season has for the Mercedes customer teams.
More drama for Grosjean, who has locked up and been off at Turn 1 now as well. And so has Hulkenberg, as the TV director tries to keep up with all these trips into the escape roads.
Ricciardo improves to reduce Bottas's margin to just under four tenths.
Yellow flag
Grosjean has been off the road at Turn 15. He makes a quick spin-turn and rejoins the action.
Ocon has moved above Perez with another improvement, as the Force Indias sit fifth and sixth.
Stopwatch
Bottas goes fastest by a big chunk - 0.908s - with a 1m44.242s on new ultrasofts.
Radio Comms
"Very little grip at the rear," says Grosjean. He's told to give the tyres a chance to build some more temperature.
Stopwatch
Ricciardo retakes top spot with a 1m45.150s, which is 0.050s faster than Hamilton.
We have a Sauber in the top 10. Leclerc has gone ninth.
More improvements at Force India, with Ocon slotting into fifth behind team-mate Perez.
Stopwatch
Hamilton goes fastest by just over a tenth with a 1m45.200s.
Hamilton's next lap begins with a fastest first sector.
Perez climbs up to fourth, splitting the Mercedes drivers.
While Hamilton avoided a lock-up, Sainz has just had a huge one that has surely ruined his right-front. Hartley has just locked up and been off at Turn 1 as well. The braking zones are proving tricky as the drivers start to push more.
Green flag
Hamilton rejoins. That was very undramatic, he didn't lock up, he must have just detected that he wasn't going to make the corner and bailed out nice and early.
Yellow flag
Oh - Hamilton has gone straight on at Turn 2.
Dramatic moment on the main straight between Magnussen and Gasly, who end up wheel to wheel across the start/finish line.
We're not going to see Verstappen in this session again after his crash.

We're not going to see Verstappen in this session again after his crash.

Gasly moves into the top 10, putting the Toro Rosso ninth.
Radio Comms
"The car just put itself into neutral," says Vandoorne.
Raikkonen goes fifth on fresh ultrasofts.
Edd Straw
Alonso is hustling the car to good effect, but it’s not a car that allows the driver to be quick without big effort.
Better news for the other McLaren, as Alonso climbs up to sixth. That puts him just behind Hulkenberg in the works Renault.
Vandoorne moves up to 16th - which puts him ahead of both Ferraris.
Edd Straw
The McLaren looks unstable through 11 in the hands of both drivers - they are almost having to drag the rear end round.
Alonso joins team-mate Vandoorne on track.

By: Geoff Creighton

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