F1 Bahrain GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP1 and FP2
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And that's your lot for FP1!
Verstappen's quickest in sectors one and two, but Perez is still quickest in S3.
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And it's a 1m31.394s for Verstappen to go P1.
Fastest first sector for Verstappen - what can he do?
Perez also got up to P5, as we're well into the final 10 minute flurry of times.
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Bottas, however, does - going P1 with a 1m31.692s.
Hamilton goes P2, he was on a quicker lap but couldn't quite surpass Norris!
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"Come on, I've got ****ing traffic!" Tsunoda says over the radio. He's got his F1 driver bemoaning traffic messages down, an important part of this championship...
The AlphaTauris have the most laps of the morning so far, Gasly with 17 and Tsunoda with 16.
Gasly now gets into P3, 0.3s off Norris' current best.
The Ferraris now swarm into the top five, with Leclerc going P2 and Sainz into P4.
Ricciardo gets up to P3, half a second off Norris' headline time. Both McLarens took fresh softs for those runs.
Raikkonen surges up to P7 now, with the Alfa looking much more potent this season if the early signs are anything to go by.
There's a P7 for Vettel, leapfrogging the AlphaTauris, Sainz and Alonso.
Alonso gets up to P10, peeling himself off the bottom of the timesheets thus far. Vettel, meanwhile, is on a better lap...
Perez is still quickest in sector three, as Norris swept to the first two.
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Lando ahoy! Norris goes quickest with a 1m31.897s on softs, beating Hamilton's best first and second sectors.
Tsunoda overlaps Sainz to continue his steady ascent, now getting up to P8. Meanwhile, Russell's got a collection of purple micro-sectors, and looks strong in that first sector.
We're halfway through the session already, definitely doesn't have the feeling of a 90-minute trudge. Let's see how we feel when it comes to FP2, though...
It's still taking a bit of getting used to seeing Vettel in the green Aston Martin. He currently sits 10th.
The Alpines, having gone out first, are currently P18 and P20 - currently split by the #9 Haas.
AlphaTauri rookie Tsunoda gets up to P9, looking good so far.
Schumacher gets his first time on the board, going P16 on the mediums to split the Williams duo.
It's advantage Hamilton and Mercedes after the first 20 minutes.
Leclerc now pops his Ferrari into P5 on his first proper run, as his new Ferrari team-mate Sainz went up to P7 before dropping down a place.
Our current top ten is: Hamilton, Verstappen, Bottas, Perez, Gasly, Norris, Sainz, Vettel, Stroll and Raikkonen.
Stroll joins his Aston Martin team-mate in the top 8, displacing Raikkonen from eighth.
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Hamilton does a 1m32.214s on his second run on the softs. That's a P1 once again as we've passed the first 15 minutes.
Vettel gets his Aston Martin up to P7, perhaps looking a bit tentative on that lap.
Perez goes up to P3 too, going a shade faster than Hamilton. The top 4 is within 0.3s - don't tease us like this, F1.
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Bottas goes top, but then Verstappen comes along and sets a 1m32.591s. Game on?
Russell hustles his Williams up to P6, logging a 1m35.694s. His team-mate Latifi reports that it "feels like someone's pushing me into each braking zone", so the team will need to have a look at that...
Latifi did surpass the two Alpines to go sixth, as Gasly splits the McLarens to take his AlphaTauri to P4.
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...before the recently knighted Sir Lewis Hamilton has gone to the top of the timesheets with a 1m32.844s. gg wp
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Perez then decided he hated that previous alliterative genius and clocks in a 1m33.180s in his Red Bull RB16B. Thanks, Sergio.
It takes two to tango, as two tangos top the timings.
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Latifi wedges his Williams between the two Alpines on the timing sheets, but Ricciardo displaces all of them with a 1m34.212s. But then his new team-mate Norris comes along and posts a 1m33.361s...
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