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Quick VSC for Ricciardo's stranded Renault - but that's been shoved down the surface road, so we're back to green.
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If your name is Dan, you've just had a bad minute. That said, Kvyat's being told to push again - so we'll refrain from indulging in any Alan Partridge quotes...
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Problems for Kvyat as well! He's having to crawl back to the pitlane.
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Ricciardo's slowed! He tried to crawl around, but he's had to pull up on the first back straight. Session over for the Australian, presumably.
Raikkonen clunked the kerb down at turn 12 at that lap - which is where our grand prix editor Alex Kalinauckas is watching proceedings from.
Raikkonen goes P2 on a 1m40.541s.
Currently still quiet on-track, although there's a few more cars circulating at the moment. It's similar to the first Bahrain weekend: the track conditions aren't too representative of what we'll get in quali/race trim.
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Hamilton, meanwhile, complained that the car felt like it was jammed on the brakes - and slo-mo replays show that the left-front was locking at random parts of the track.
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Bottas meanwhile winds the times down to 1m39.313s, as there's not a huge amount of running going on in this opening 15 minutes.
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"Very high front brake temps, residual brake pressure," Bono tells Hamilton. "I'm not on the brakes," comes the reply, giving Mercedes enough call to bring Hamilton back into the pits.
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Bottas posts a 1m40.692s to go top, on the hard tyre.
Hamilton's out on track, doing some laps after a week off to shake off the cobwebs.
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Albon kicks us off with a 1m45.301s, before Leclerc does a 1m42.903s.
We've got a Schumacher on track in an F1 session - that's cool. But the timing tower uses "SCH", instead of "MSC"...we don't know to feel about that.
Already a smattering of cars doing install laps. We've got Albon, Ocon, Vettel, Sainz, Verstappen, Raikkonen, Fittipaldi, Latifi and anyone else who leaves the pitlane as I type this.
Green flag
Pitlane open - FP1 is go!
We've also got two FP1-ers in this weekend. Robert Kubica is in the Alfa Romeo, while F2 champion Mick Schumacher takes over Kevin Magnussen's Haas for this session.
We've got the C3-4-5 range of tyres this weekend, the softest trio.
Just five minutes until Abu Dhabi action kicks off - it's a much earlier schedule this week!
That does mean Jack Aitken drops off the grid - having kept Russell's Williams seat warm last weekend.
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It's as you were for this weekend, to some degree. Hamilton returns after missing the Sakhir GP with COVID-19, and so Russell will also return to Williams.
Good morning everyone - and yes, it's the final weekend of the season! Where's the year gone?! I feel like I've been sat on the same chair for the last nine months...
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