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Raikkonen - currently third - aborts a lap after setting two personal best sectors, and he comes into the pits.
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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Raikkonen, 4 Leclerc, 5 Grosjean, 6 Magnussen, 7 Gasly, 8 Ericsson, 9 Hulkenberg, 10 Ocon.
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Leclerc seems to be picking up a bit of rear instability at turn in for Ferradura, which means he can’t be quite as decisive on entry as he intends to. Ericsson doesn't seem to have that problem.
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Swift work down at Mercedes, it seems - Hamilton returns to the track. Let's see if he stays out for more than one slow lap this time.
Another improvement for Leclerc, who is still up in fourth. Magnussen has slotted in behind Grosjean in the other Haas, so we have five Ferrari-powered cars in the top six at the moment, and six in the top nine.
Hamilton starts a flying lap this time. Run two is already going better than run one.
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Leclerc is told "we have a problem" and he should not attempt to lay rubber in his pit box when he returns.
Hamilton's lap puts him second, 0.241s slower than Vettel, as we get some replays of Hamilton's car letting out a few puffs of smoke. Nothing too dramatic, by the looks of it.
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Ricciardo goes fourth on a new set of supersofts, and Verstappen comes across the line fifth, nearly two tenths down. Ricciardo had a handy tow, it must be said, and set a new fastest speed across the start/finish line of 333km/h.
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1 Vettel, 2 Hamilton, 3 Bottas, 4 Ricciardo, 5 Verstappen, 6 Raikkonen, 7 Leclerc, 8 Grosjean, 9 Magnussen, 10 Gasly.
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Vandoorne reports that he thinks he has hit a bird on track. McLaren says it looks like he avoided it, and TV replays are... inconclusive. The bird certainly knew about it - let's hope it was a near-miss.
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Improvements for Raikkonen and Hamilton, and it's the Ferrari that is quickest with a 1m08.490s.
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Confusion at Toro Rosso - as Gasly spots a stopped Red Bull on the big screens. Toro Rosso can't see anything on its GPS map, and then realises "it was a replay from yesterday. No, from Mexico, actually".
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Now Vettel goes fastest on new supersofts with a 1m07.948s. Bottas now slots into second.
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1 Vettel, 2 Bottas, 3 Raikkonen, 4 Hamilton, 5 Ricciardo, 6 Verstappen, 7 Leclerc, 8 Grosjean, 9 Magnussen, 10 Gasly.
An improvement for Sainz on softs that have 11 laps on them. He's only 16th at the moment.
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Pretty quiet on track at the moment, just over 15 minutes to go.
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Hamilton leaves the pits on new supersofts, looking to take advantage of there being just three other cars out at the moment. Make that two, as Vettel has pitted now.
Hamilton's car is still puffing out smoke occasionally on this lap.
Hamilton improves, but he finishes the lap still two tenths slower than Vettel.
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Hamilton is told that he was fastest through the middle sector, losing nearly two tenths in sector one, and two tenths in the final sector. The team adds "you're looking good in the corners", which could be a subtle way of suggesting that Mercedes will be in the game when it turns its engine up.
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Hamilton says he "might as well do another lap", so he stays out, but slows almost immediately at the start of that lap.
Grosjean moves up to sixth, the first to improve in the rest of the pack.
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The Mercedes rear end continues to be a bit lively on both cars is also reacting to the bumps a fair bit.
Leclerc goes eighth in the Sauber.
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Hamilton reported that his tyre pressures weren't right for that previous attempt that he backed out of, but he's having another go now and has put in a personal best first sector.
Hamilton was just over a tenth down at the end of the second sector, but then runs wide at Juncao and bails out of the lap.
Ricciardo's latest improvement puts him fifth, eight tenths down. It doesn't look like we'll have another three-team fight for pole this weekend.
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"I don't know why you keep asking me to go rearward on brake bias, it's too much," says Leclerc.
Raikkonen is the latest driver to miss an apex, although unlike Hamilton he got his error out of the way at the first corner, meaning he can back off sooner to protect his tyres for another go.
Verstappen goes fifth to become the fastest Red Bull, but he's still 0.7s off the pace.
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