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Ilott goes above Raikkonen on his latest lap, and is just a couple of hundredths off Alonso's time. Raikkonen then went quicker, but track limits'd and lost the lap.
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Bottas winds his time down to a 1m20.088s.
The Williamses have now found some pace - Russell is P9, Latifi P14. Not too shabby...
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But Bottas is on softs now, and he slaps in a 1m20.221s. It'll do.
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Verstappen went quicker with a 1m20.318s - still on the hard tyre.
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Mazepin gets annoyed by Schumacher passing him on the straight. Good practice for the race, though...
A steady log of times being deleted - quite a few of them being Leclerc's. Latifi's just had his best time so far removed too, sticking back down at the bottom of the timesheets.
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Verstappen now returns to the top with a 1m20.500s, after having a moan on the radio about the regen mode. That's 0.006s faster than Bottas.
At the halfway stage, our top 10 is: 1. Bottas, 2. Verstappen, 3. Hamilton, 4. Ricciardo, 5. Ocon, 6. Gasly, 7. Stroll, 8. Vettel, 9. Sainz, 10. Alonso.
Vettel had a moment and went into the wrong pitbox - dropping into the McLaren box instead. Maybe he's just manifesting another transfer...
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Bottas did a 1m20.506s earlier to go top, so he's found something here that isn't George Russell in the middle of a corner...
We were about to write something about Ilott only being a tenth off Hamilton, but the latter driver spoils the fun and goes third.
There was perhaps more in that lap, Verstappen doing the cha-cha slide through the penultimate corner.
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Verstappen now stabs home a lap to pick up P1, logging a 1m21.053s to go over 0.7s faster than Ricciardo's ex-headliner.
Verstappen's finally set a proper lap, and goes up to P3. Lots of hard tyre running at the moment - so, again, we'll see laptimes fall further in due course.
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It's a 1m21.821s for Ricciardo, who vaults to the top of the timesheets.
Vettel's up to third place in his Aston Martin, getting between the two Ferraris - Sainz still P2, Leclerc P4.
"The balance is pretty undriveable right now," Hamilton says. Race engineer Bono tells him it's surface temperature related - ie, the track's kinda cold.
McLaren's blue bits this weekend are emblazoned with Autogrill. Autogrill? What the hell is thaaaat?
Pole time last year was a 1m16.652s from Hamilton. Time still on the table, in F1 vernacular.
And there's Bottas with a 1m21.829s. Sainz and Gasly also split the Mercedes drivers.
The times are going to come down as the drivers reacquaint themselves with the Algarve circuit. Which it's actually called - not Portimao. Fun. At. Parties.
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Alonso gets back up to second for a short time, with Gasly going third - but Hamilton then does a 1m22.772s.
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Hamilton now goes P2, as Bottas does a 1m22.938s to go even quicker.
Alonso pops up to P2 ahead of Sainz, while Leclerc has his laptime deleted for track limits. First of many, we imagine.
Here's Ilott, then - we share the same birthday, but depressingly I'm five years older than him.
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First blood to Bottas, who sets a 1m23.778s.
There's a little piece on the exit of the pitlane, looks like one of those things you shove in a sidepod or brake duct to hold the leaf-blower coolers. Seems it was stuck under Sainz's car.
Bottas is first on the road, followed by Perez, Ilott, Tsunoda and Raikkonen.
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The time is now at Portimao - the session hath beginneth.
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No chance of rain for this session - which Mr. Ilott will be delighted with, having had his FP1 appearance at the Nurburgring washed away last year
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I assume, of course, there's an unwritten rule of "don't crash into them", but I suppose you can equally contend that that Mercedes has a rule of "don't end up fighting with Williams"...
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Speaking of tricky corners, George Russell says there's no "rules of engagement" between he and the Mercedes drivers after Imola: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/russell-no-rules-of-engagement-in-fighting-mercedes-drivers/6498874/
Portimao has been a popular addition to the calendar, and the Portuguese venue has remained on the calendar for this year. Lots of undulation and tricky corners for the drivers to contend with.
Good morning! In about 10 minutes, we'll be underway for free practice at Portimao.
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