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F1 United States GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP1 & FP2
All of the action from Friday's F1 practice sessions at the Circuit of the Americas.
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"Something's come loose on my elbow, I can't turn properly," Norris reports. He's given the command to return to the pits so the team can check it out.
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Bottas logs a 1m35.887s, the first serious laptime of the session for the Mercs, and Hamilton files in just 0.032s behind.
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Perez now posts a 1m35.883s to go top, just 0.004s clear of Bottas.
Verstappen files into third on his opening lap, between Bottas and Hamilton.
All of those top four laps were done on mediums. Sainz, in fifth and also on the middle tyre, is 0.9s off the pace.
Leclerc displaces team-mate Sainz from fifth, half-a-second off the pace. Ricciardo now goes sixth on the soft tyre.
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Bottas returns to the top of the timesheets, logging a 1m35.764s to dispatch Perez.
Sainz set a fastest first sector on his most recent lap, but elected to back out of it.
Hamilton and Verstappen have a bit of a race into Turn 1. "Stupid idiot," Verstappen responds, offering his middle finger as a riposte as Hamilton passes.
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Perez is back on top, posting a 1m35.716s to go 0.05s clear of Bottas.
Ocon has a bit of an excursion, exploring the vast expanse of run-off available at the Circuit of the Americas.
Norris breaks into the top five, going fifth on the mediums after his earlier elbow trouble.
"When I'm back in the box I need to change my helmet, my eyes are watering like crazy," Mazepin says. Not a dry eye in the house.
Russell is finally on track, and is about to set his opening run on the soft tyre.
After a short spell in the pits, Bottas returns to the circuit bearing soft tyres. Hamilton does the same.
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Lance Stroll goes top on the soft tyres, setting a 1m35.561s.
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Bottas now puts his softs to work, setting a 1m35.360s.
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Hamilton now posts a 1m34.842s to go top.
Scratch that, Hamilton's lap fell foul of track limits and has been claimed by the scythe's remorseless swing.
It's Turn 19 where Hamilton went a little wide - the penultimate corner. If you've ever seen an IndyCar race here, you'll have seen a more...lax approach to that corner.
Leclerc lifts himself up to third with his soft tyre run, 0.2s off of Bottas' best.
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Perez now brings us back into the 1m34s, setting a 1m34.946s.
Ricciardo moves up to third, nestling between Bottas and Stroll on the timing board.
Norris and Hamilton now go second and third, as the latter has another run on his softs.
"Recharge off, go now", Verstappen is told - but the Dutchman gets a face-full of traffic as he was about to start his run.
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"I'm boxing, f*** this," Verstappen says.
The top five are all in the pits, as are Verstappen and Sainz, having brought their quali sims to an end.
"I just avoided a crash," says Mazepin, who finds an Aston Martin down his flank. That's something, I guess.
Perez, Bottas and Hamilton return to the track on mediums, as does Verstappen, as we look to get the long runs in over the last 20 minutes.
Presumably a bit of pitstop practice punctuating the final half of the session too, as a number of cars have been in and out of the pits relatively swiftly.
So yes, we're into the race run fun. The front-running medium runners - Perez, Hamilton, Bottas and Verstappen - are in the high 1m41s, with 1m42.0s for both Norris and Ricciardo at this stage.
Leclerc and Sainz are on-par with the McLarens too, so they look evenly matched in the Ferrari/McLaren battle for third in the championship.
Perez and Hamilton now crack the 1m40s, so they're looking comfortable if early indications are anything to go by.
F1's qualifying pace projections has Hamilton fastest from Perez, Bottas, Verstappen and Norris.
"There's something at the end of the cockpit touching my leg in the corner", Ocon reports. That's debris in the corner, that's debris in the spotlight...
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Alonso's managed to go backwards into the wall at Turn 19, but has managed to get the car out of the gravel and retreats to the pits. Player 14 eliminated.
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And that's it for FP2 - chequered flag is out.
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Perez leads that session from Norris, Hamilton, Bottas and Ricciardo. Verstappen, unable to get a full flying run in, is eighth.
A bit of a faux-pas for Giovinazzi, who missed the pit entry - but he's managed to thread it back in to bring his session to a slightly inauspicious end.
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