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Halfway through the session and Verstappen starts his first flying lap after the previous one was interrupted by the VSC.
Green flag
Virtual Safety Car over.
Safety car
Virtual Safety Car! The wind blew over one of the advertising hoardings at the final corner so two stewards nipped onto the track to stand it back up again.
Both Mercedes and Verstappen's Red Bull are now out on track - let's see what they can do.
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Straight out the box, Leclerc sets a 1.19m743 to go second quickest overall.
14 drivers have now set times, with only the Aston Martins, the Mercedes', Russell and Verstappen yet to do so.
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Raikkonen enters the 1m19s with a 1m19.944 as the track warms up.
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Currently Tsunoda leads from Alonso and Perez.
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Raikkonen is the first to enter the 1m20s with a 1m20.600.
Few more cars out on track now - both Alpines, both Alfa Romeos, both AlphaTauris and a few others.
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But Schumacher immediately goes faster with a 1m21.776.
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Only two drivers have set times so far - Schumacher and his team-mate Nikita Mazepin, who sets a 1m22.430.
Schumacher spins, but quickly recovers and there's no damage to the car.
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Schumacher sets the first time of 1m23.026.
...shortly followed by Mick Schumacher in his Haas.
The other Aston Martin of Sebastian Vettel is next out on track.
Lance Stroll is first out in his Aston Martin and he's carrying upgrades for this weekend.
Green flag
The session has now started! No cars out on track just yet though.
The track is 10°C cooler than yesterday - might be a slippy one.
Stopwatch
Ten minutes to go!
Sun
It's looking mild and dry at Portimao today - air temperature of 16.6°C with a track temperature of 28°C.
Welcome back ahead of FP3! In case you missed it, here's what happened in the last practice session on Friday: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-portuguese-gp-hamilton-tops-fp2-ahead-of-verstappen/6499267/
By: Megan White, Haydn Cobb, James Newbold, Tom Howard
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