F1 Abu Dhabi GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP1 & FP2
By: James Newbold, Jake Boxall-Legge, Tom Howard, Haydn Cobb
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Catch up with all the action from FP2 here.
Action will resume of course tomorrow with FP3 set to begin at 10am with Qualifying to follow at 1pm. Make sure you join us tomorrow but until then stay tuned with all the reaction to follow online.
So Hamilton ends up on top with a 1m23.691s. He is 0.3s faster than Alpine's Esteban Ocon with Valtteri Bottas third. Verstappen was fourth quickest, 0.6s slower than Hamilton.
Raikkonen climbs out of the Alfa Romeo. He is okay but there is significant damage to the rear of the car.
Just as the chequered flag comes out it is followed by a red flag. Raikkonen has found the wall at Turn 14.
Just as Hamilton and Verstappen cannot be split on points heading into this weekend, they have now logged the same amount of laps in this session.
Overall, Hamilton has set the fastest sectors in sector 1 and sector 3. Bottas has the best sector 2.
Interestingly Hamilton is conducting his race run on mediums while Verstappen is running softs. Verstappen is faster as you would expect to the tune of 0.4s over the last couple of laps.
Hamilton returns to the top of the timesheets with a 1m23.691s. The seven-time champion is the first driver to dip into the 1m23s bracket.
Norris is back out on track after a front wing change. Appears there was some slight damage on the component.
Ocon to the top now on soft tyres. The Frenchman produces a time 0.049s faster than Bottas. Strong lap, that for the Alpine driver.
Alonso finally gets a lap on the board after his run of deleted efforts. He sits in fourth just behind teammate Ocon.
Fernando Alonso slots into P2 now with a 1m24.225s, but he is the latest to fall foul of exceeding track limits at Turn 16.
Sainz, Leclerc and Raikkonen have had times deleted for exceeding track limits at Turns 7, 16 and 12 respectively.
Esteban Ocon's strong form continues, he sits P3 currently despite the headrest issue on his Alpine.
At the front, Hamilton has improved to lower his benchmark to a 1m24.126s. He is 0.9s faster than Verstappen now. Both drivers are running on the mediums.
Latifi has found the wall at Turn 13. The Williams driver gets going again but has damage to his rear wing.
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