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We're back to normal in terms of drivers in the cars - Roy Nissany hands back George Russell's car, as Robert Kubica left Kimi Raikkonen's chariot in the gravel for him. How kind.
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We're currently looking at an air temperature of 21.2 degrees C - and a track temperature of 41.2 degrees C.
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If you thought Aston Martin had become cool with the whole high-rake, low-rake thing...think again: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/aston-martin-red-bull-mercedes-f1-gap-justifies-low-rake-complaints/6504092/
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If you want a recap of what happened in FP1, we've got you covered right here: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/f1-spanish-gp-bottas-tops-disrupted-fp1-from-verstappen-and-hamilton/6503971/
The newly reprofiled Turn 10 has added a wildcard into the mix for this race - but that heinous chicane at the end of the Barcelona lap still exists. Shame.
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FP2 begins! Raikkonen and Schumacher are first on the road.
Ocon, Giovinazzi and Vettel also hit the track to get some early lappage in.
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First lap recorded goes to Antonio Giovinazzi, a 1m20.691s.
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Immediately, Bottas smashes that with a 1m19.087s, which was inevitable really.
Schumacher evokes memories of the 1982 German World Cup team with an excellent save, catching his errant Haas at Turn 2. Well held.
Leclerc's up to second with Norris third at the moment, with Ocon ahead of Sainz.
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Hamilton then drops into second, going 0.2s slower than Bottas, but then Verstappen logs a 1m19.041s to go quickest on mediums.
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Bottas raises the bar even further and logs a 1m18.419s lap - just under a tenth quicker than his best this morning.
Hamilton has another tilt, half a tenth off Bottas' best as it stands. Verstappen is a further half-second behind the Mercedes duo.
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We've got a VSC to clear a spot of debris, but that's swiftly cleared by a sprinting marshal.
'Twas a bit of debris shed from the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz Jr, who went wide at Campsa and lost some bodywork to the sausage kerb.
Verstappen remains third, but now gets into the 1m18s with a 1m18.785s. That puts him further ahead of the Alpine duo, Perez and Gasly.
After the initial flurry of runs, our top 10 is: Bottas, Hamilton, Verstappen, Alonso, Gasly, Ocon, Perez, Leclerc, Tsunoda and Norris.
Ricciardo gets himself up to P11, two tenths off Norris, and displaces Giovinazzi in the meantime. Stroll, Sainz, Raikkonen, Vettel, Latifi, Russell, Schumacher and Mazepin complete the order.
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There's a replay of Tsunoda running over the Turn 9 kerbs, knocking out some fillings and giving his AlphaTauri car a few problems to boot. "The car switched off," he says.
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Now bearing soft tyres, Bottas does a 1m18.309s to go a tenth faster than his best - but Hamilton on the same compound logs a 1m18.170s to go top.
The Aston duo blasts into the top five on softs, with Vettel in fourth 0.2s ahead of Stroll in fifth.
Norris now pops his McLaren between the two Astons, going fifth fastest.
Gasly now gets up to third as the field all takes to the soft tyre running, but is quickly nudged down a spot by Ferrari's Leclerc.
Ocon then went up to fourth, with Sainz moving up to fifth - so it's all change as we approach the end of the first half-hour.
Alonso wedges himself between Ocon and Sainz to go P5, which points at a very close midfield battle this weekend.
Verstappen was on a quicker lap, but got caught out at Turn 10 and had a severe case of the wiggles - carrying in too much pace.
Some improvements still happening out there - Gasly went up to P6 before coming into the pits, while Ricciardo posts a better lap but can only get P14.
Tsunoda now goes P7, just a slither off Gasly's best lap so far, so his earlier hop-skip-jump over the Campsa kerb hasn't affected him too much.
Perez brings his car up into the top 10, going up to 10th and just over a tenth off Verstappen.
Kimi Raikkonen's Alfa is currently doused in flow-vis paint to assess some bargeboard and floor aero movements. Otherwise, it's quite quiet now as we waltz to the race-style runs.
Now, the "fun" begins as the teams assess how deep into a race the soft tyre will go.
It feels like pre-season testing now, with drivers pounding around the Barcelona circuit on race runs. The only thing that would complete the experience is the dreaded Burger Stall of Gloom...
The Mercs are running around in the low 1m23s, which Leclerc and Alonso were in the same ball-park. Gasly was in the high 1m23s last time around, with Ocon on mediums in the mid-1m24s.
Bottas had his long-run on the softs paused, and he's now taken on the mediums to do some further exploration.
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"How are the tyres, how is the balance?" asks Fernando Alonso's race engineer. "Oversteering," comes the curt reply.
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If we combined the best sectors, we'd have a 1m17.945s - taking Hamilton's first sector, Bottas' second, and Leclerc's third.
We're into the final few minutes of the session now, and both Hamilton and Gasly are the highest-lapping drivers with 29 a piece. Perez is lowest with 20 so far.
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