F1 Turkish GP Live commentary and updates - FP1 & FP2 | Live text

By: Tom Howard, Lewis Duncan

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	Summary FP2 for the Turkish Grand Prix has finished Hamilton finished top with a 1m23.804s ahead of Leclerc and Bottas Hamilton also topped this morning's FP1 FP3 starts at 10:00 BST on Saturday
	Leaderboard Hamilton, Mercedes Leclerc, Ferrari Bottas, Mercedes Perez, Red Bull Verstappen, Red Bull Norris, McLaren Alonso, Alpine Ocon, Alpine Gasly, AlphaTauri Giovinazzi, Alfa Romeo

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16:11 FP2 report: Hamilton leads Leclerc, Verstappen fifth -
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16:04 Ocon is having a few gear selection issues as he attempts a practice start. He's stuck in neutral and stranded on track as he's been told to switch off.

16:01 Tsunoda was 11th from Sainz, Stroll, Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Vettel, Latifi, Russell, Schumacher and Mazepin.

16:01 Hamilton tops the session with a 1m23.804s from Leclerc, Bottas, Perez, Verstappen, Norris, Alonso, Ocon, Gasly, Giovinazzi.

16:00 The yellow flag was for Latifi, who spun at Turn 9 again.

16:00 Chequered flag is out and that's a wrap on FP2.

15:59 Someone's gone off in sector two and briefly brought out a yellow flag.

15:57 Mazepin had a big slide going through Turn 8. He's ruined his tyres as a result... and most likely his underpants too.

15:56 We're now looking at Norris finishing a lap. The McLaren driver is doing his work this afternoon on the hard tyre.

15:56 Russell has just been told his mid 1m28s pace is "matching Aston and Ocon".

15:55 You know there's not a lot happening when we get to see shots of cars exceeding track limits at Turn 1.

15:54 Verstappen reports the "vibrations are picking up on the right front". He's currently on a run on the medium tyres and there's a fair bit of marking on that right front - same as Leclerc had.

15:50 Just 10 minutes of running left in FP2.

15:50 Not sure how old those mediums are on Leclerc's car, but they already look quite marked on the inside of the front right.

15:49 Gasly has gotten his AlphaTauri going again, but that set of soft tyres he's is a bit wrecked now.

15:48 Gasly has now had a spin exiting Turn 6.

15:48 Verstappen has a big moment going through Turn 7 on this lap. Clearly still struggling for stability mid-corner.

15:45 Just 15 minutes of FP2 remaining and we're right into the long running now.

15:44 Bottas now has a big lock-up into Turn 1 and runs on. Another student for the Toprak school of hard braking later on.

15:43 Raikkonen continued his drinks-related rant in his garage, saying - among other things - "[It's] the most simply part of the car and we can't fix it." Can't imagine what Kimi is like when someone spills milk at home!

15:41 We're yet to see a soft tyre lap from 14th-placed Ricciardo.

15:40 Meanwhile, Ocon makes another improvement in his Alpine to seventh behind team-mate Alonso.

15:39 "I think my arms are too short to turn the wheel," Gasly says. Millions of short F1 fans instantly relate.

15:37 Leclerc did hope the track surface would be just as slippery as it was last year as it suited Ferrari, but he's looking in decent form at the moment.

15:36 Only two drivers have gone sub-1m24s this afternoon - Hamilton with a 1m23.804s, and Leclerc with a 1m23.970s.

15:34 Tusnoda's the latest to be caught out by Turn 9. Had a bit of a snap into the corner on his previous flying lap. The Japanese driver is currently ninth.

15:32 Raikkonen is complaining his drinking system is "leaking like f***".

15:31 Outside of the top 10 it's Alonso, Stroll, Ricciardo, Raikkonen, Vettel, Latifi, Russell, Mazepin, Schumacher and Ocon.

15:31 Half an hour of this session gone, Hamilton leads Leclerc, Bottas, Perez, Verstappen, Norris, Giovinazzi, Tsunoda, Sainz, Gasly.

15:30 Verstappen says his car mid-corner feels "like a slingshot".

15:28 Interesting lap for Hamilton. On the same soft tyres, he's managed to improve to a 1m24.804s.

15:27 Verstappen goes fourth with a 1m24.736s.

15:26 He's 0.491s down in sector one as a result of that error.

15:25 Verstappen goes onto a time attack on soft rubber now but made a bit of a mistake exiting Turn 1.

15:25 And Hamilton sees that lap through to go top with a 1m23.840s, but you have think there's a few tenths missing from that as a result of the traffic.

15:24 He's kept his foot on the loud pedal though and is still up in sector two.

15:24 Hamilton is up through sector one on this lap but has come up on a lot of traffic into Turn 8.

15:23 Norris makes a bit of a mistake at Turn 9 on this soft tyre lap and has to abort.

15:22 Vettel is asked for his thoughts on car balance. His reply: "Very poor, tons of understeer". An apt description of both his Aston Martin and every shopping trolley ever.

15:21 The Williams driver makes a small improvement to 16th.

F1 Turkish GP Live commentary and updates - FP1 & FP2

Live updates from Friday practice for the Turkish GP at Istanbul Park.

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