Canadian GP Friday practice
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Magnussen is the latest driver to have a mild incident, going over the run-off and grass at Turn 1.
Alonso is another finding pace on non-pink tyres, he goes seventh using ultrasofts.
Verstappen and Raikkonen are still the only frontrunners to have run hypersofts. Vettel and Ricciardo have had problems, Mercedes just hasn't fancied hypersofts yet.
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Verstappen goes quickest, his 1m12.198s is 0.130s faster than Raikkonen's hypersoft effort.
Verstappen has popped hypersofts on. And his first flying lap with them starts with the fastest sector one so far.
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Order: 1 Raikkonen; 2 Hamilton; 3 Verstappen; 4 Bottas; 5 Ocon; 6 Grosjean; 7 Leclerc; 8 Hartley; 9 Hulkenberg; 10 Vettel; 11 Ericsson; 12 Vandoorne; 13 Alonso; 14 Magnussen; 15 Sainz; 16 Gasly; 17 Perez; 18 Stroll; 19 Sirotkin; 20 Ricciardo
Grosjean moves up to sixth on hypersofts.
Vettel got as far as ninth on his first run. He was only using supersofts, but that was the same tyre the Mercedes set their best times on. The Ferrari has a wiggle down the pitlane as it comes in.
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Stroll is making positive sounds about tyre behaviour and car handling. His engineer lets him know that he was too fast at the final chicane and nearly repeated his practice one crash.
Bottas does improve by a few tenths, but he stays fourth behind Raikkonen, Hamilton and Verstappen.
The Mercedes have yet to join the hypersoft fun, but Bottas looks like he's about to improve on ultrasofts.
A replay shows that mistake from Leclerc, he went scooting over the run-off at the first corner.
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"I did a mistake," says Leclerc. "I think we can box, I have a flatspot." He's still sat proudly in sixth place.
Raikkonen uses his hypersofts, which are now five laps old, to go fastest on a 1m12.328s, 0.449s faster than Hamilton's ultrasoft time.
Hypersoft runner Raikkonen sets the fastest first sector of anyone so far. And the fastest middle sector too.
Sainz is now sat on the pitwall watching the session after his shunt.
Vettel, who's still on supersofts, gets up to sixth.
Hulkenberg is making up for lost time after this morning's gearbox woe and goes 10th on hypersofts.
The Saubers are now fifth and sixth - Leclerc ahead - thanks in part to going to hypersofts early. Ocon now puts his Force India between them.
Raikkonen uses hypersofts to go second, 0.272s down on Hamilton's supersoft time.
Ricciardo is walking through the paddock while Red Bull tries to fix the problem with his car. He's now down to 17th on the timesheets, as Vettel goes a tentative 16th.
That's the second red flag of the day caused by Renault, as Sainz hits the wall on the exit of the chicane
The hypersofts are coming out - Leclerc uses them to move up to fourth, team-mate Ericsson goes ninth on pink rubber.
Vettel joins the track for his first run of the session.
The Saubers, Perez and Sirotkin is among the early cars back out.
Not looking ideal for Ricciardo in the pits - the Monaco winner's car is having a lot of work done on it. He abandoned his first run early, and it looked that was just due to traffic but perhaps not.
Back to green with 58 minutes left.
The session will restart in just under two minutes.
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Order under red flag: 1 Hamilton; 2 Verstappen; 3 Bottas; 4 Vandoorne; 5 Alonso; 6 Raikkonen; 7 Sainz; 8 Leclerc; 9 Ocon; 10 Perez; 11 Hartley; 12 Ericsson; 13 Grosjean; 14 Hulkenberg; 15 Ricciardo; 16 Magnussen; 17 Gasly; 18 Sirotkin; 19 Stroll. No time: Vettel
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Sainz is now back in the garage. Today is proving to be hard work for Renault.
Impressive that Sainz managed to keep that car going so successfully as he properly spun backwards into the wall, but bounced off it.
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"I touched the wall. I'm going to try to make it back, but there's damage," Sainz warns Renault.
Red flag
Sainz is trying to limp the damaged Renault back to the pits but the debris he's left behind prompts a red flag.
Yellow flag
Sainz lost it at the Turn 6/7 chicane and went into the wall on the exit.
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Sainz has crashed!
Vandoorne shows more good McLaren pace to take fourth off team-mate Alonso.
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