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Ocon, Giovinazzi and Vettel also hit the track to get some early lappage in.
Green flag
FP2 begins! Raikkonen and Schumacher are first on the road.
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.
Breaking news
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/
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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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We're currently looking at an air temperature of 21.2 degrees C - and a track temperature of 41.2 degrees C.
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.
Hello everyone - and we're back for FP2 ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix!
That's it from us for now, but we'll be back in around two hours' time for full coverage of FP2. See you then.
Here's the full report on that session, as Valtteri Bottas once again topped opening Spanish GP practice:
It wasn't a great FP1 for the guesting Kubica, who spun out towards the end. He finishes up 19th, only a tenth ahead of Mazepin. Nissany was more impressive, taking 17th, fractionally ahead of Schumacher.
Some notable gaps between team-mates in that session, although there were some differing strategies. Perez was eight tenths behind Verstappen, while Ricciardo was the same gap behind Norris.
The answer to that is no. So it's Bottas, from Verstappen, Hamilton, Norris and Leclerc at the end of FP1.
Checkered flag
And the chequered flag is out. Will there be any late improvements?
Perez furiously raises his hand as Ricciardo's McLaren is the latest to be guilty of getting in the way.
Bottas has to take to the grass to avoid a Ferrari in the chicane's braking zone. Looks like that was Leclerc, who was completely oblivious to what was happening behind.
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Verstappen does now get a clean lap and splits the Mercedes. Game on!
Those times for the Ferraris are impressive as they're only half a second behind the Mercedes drivers, who used softs while the scarlet cars were on hards.
Well, we'll have to wait for that as Verstappen backs out of the lap, as the Ferraris go up to fourth and fifth on the mediums.
It will be interesting to see the comparison to Verstappen, who is now running the soft tyres for the first time. He goes green in the first sector.
Perez does go sixth with his latest effort but is still nearly a second slower than Bottas.
Before Perez and the Ferraris improve, it's worth noting that Latifi is up in 12th place.
Perez has now got the guesting Nissany tucked right on his gearbox as he begins his first flying lap after the restart.
Perez leads the field back out on track with some Astons and Mercedes in the queue behind. Not that it's easy to tell those cars apart.
Green flag
And we're green once more with just over nine minutes remaining in the session.
The session will restart in two minutes, according to race control.
At least, from Raikkonen's point of view, Kubica hasn't hit the barriers but it's still a disappointing loss of track time for Alfa due its stand-in's error.
Replays show Kubica just lost the rear mid-way through the new Turn 10 sequence and got beached in the gravel.
Red flag
We have a red flag! And it's Kubica who has gone off and is stuck in the gravel.
Ferrari has flown under the radar in this session so far and that's because Sainz and Leclerc have yet to venture out on soft tyres. They're 14th and 17th at the minute.
As for Ricciardo, he shoots up to eighth. But that is still eight tenths down on his team-mate, clearly the Aussie is still not quite comfortable in his new surroundings.
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Bottas now goes top. He's 0.123s faster than Hamilton as the times continue to fall.
Stopwatch
And Norris shoots up to third! He's only three tenths off Hamilton's new fastest time. Over to Ricciardo now to see what he can do.
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Hamilton improves slightly on his latest lap, he moves to a 1m18.627s, to extend his gap over Bottas to two tenths.
There's plenty of flow-vis paint on Norris' McLaren as the team is trying out new parts for this weekend. Norris is currently 12th, while Ricciardo is down in 18th.
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Gasly is the latest to shoot up the leaderboard on the softs, as he goes third, only a quarter of a second behind the two Mercedes drivers.
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Verstappen improves slightly to go fifth, but he's stuck with the hard tyres for his latest run.
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