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F1 Turkish Grand Prix Live Commentary and Updates - FP3 & Qualifying
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Bottas goes quickest with a 1m24.142s, as Hamilton seems to be doing a second warm-up lap.
All and sundry out on the circuit, except for Sainz. The big hitters have decided to brave it on mediums.
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Q2 now begins.
Eliminated in Q1: Ricciardo, Latifi, Giovinazzi, Raikkonen, Mazepin
Mick Schumacher also escaped the drop, dragging the Haas into P14 in that session!
Sainz improves too - and that puts Ricciardo into the drop zone!
Vettel improves and gets out of the drop zone, dropping Latifi into the bottom five!
Raikkonen and Mazepin can't improve - they're out in Q1!
Ocon improves to sixth, and Stroll goes eighth.
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The chequered flag is now out.
Giovinazzi improved to knock Sainz back into the drop zone, as Gasly now goes second.
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A 1m24.585s for Hamilton, who returns to P1.
Vettel's in a spot of bother too, sitting P17, and hasn't been able to improve yet.
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Perez now goes fourth as Verstappen goes quickest with a 1m25.033s, putting Schumacher into the bottom five.
Tsunoda and Stroll get out of the bottom five places, shoving Perez into the danger zone.
Verstappen was told that "rain appears to be dissipating", which means the track will continue to evolve.
Bottas gets into second, a tenth off his team-mate.
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Hamilton returns to the top with a 1m25.050s.
Schumacher goes P13, meaning Tsunoda, Stroll and Giovinazzi move into the drop zone.
Sainz escapes the drop zone for the time being, going P11.
Alonso now goes up to P2, as Alpine team-mate Ocon moves out of the drop zone to go P7.
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Gasly moves up to P1, setting a 1m25.486s to shuffle Leclerc down a spot, after the Ferrari driver had just gone quickest.
Sainz is struggling to get a lap in, and currently sits in the drop zone with Ocon, Raikkonen, Schumacher and Mazepin.
Russell had dropped into the relegation zone, but now moves up to sixth fastest.
Tsunoda's had an off at Turn 1, but gets going once again.
Leclerc finally posts a lap to go fifth fastest, as Latifi goes P7.
Verstappen goes back up to third, as Alonso goes fourth to shuffle Hamilton down to fifth.
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Bottas now does a 1m25.913s to go fastest, as Norris gets second with a 1m26.010s.
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It's a 1m26.520s for Hamilton now, who goes fastest, as Gasly goes second.
Neither Ferrari has yet logged a time, as they've had laps deleted for track limits.
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Verstappen atones from his earlier spin with a 1m26.692s to go fastest.
Bottas now gets into second with a 1m27.173s, as Ricciardo goes up to third.
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Hamilton now posts a 1m27.085s, as Tsunoda goes P2.
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Norris does a 1m28.079s to go top, but Russell eclipses that with a 1m28.047s.
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Verstappen has also endured a spin, meaning he only logs a 1m44.530s.
Gasly does a 1m29.499s to go top, as Russell goes P3, behind Latifi.
Sainz spins at Turn 1, as Hamilton has been off-track a couple of times in the early phase of the lap.
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Latifi kicks us off with a 1m30.251s.
"Rain now expected in three minutes," according to Ricciardo's engineer.
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Everyone's on track now. "Be careful of track limits, we just need a nice clean lap," Hamilton is told.
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