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Ricciardo is still out and trying desperately to improve but he's way off the pace and won't get above 13th.
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Order: 1 Vettel; 2 Sainz; 3 Verstappen; 4 Hamilton; 5 Gasly; 6 Bottas; 7 Hartley; 8 Raikkonen; 9 Magnussen; 10 Grosjean; 11 Alonso; 12 Hulkenberg; 13 Ricciardo; 14 Ericsson; 15 Stroll (no time)
Stroll was able to continue after his off - but he's still not set a time.
Radio Comms
"It's just getting worse," says Hamilton.
Raikkonen goes eighth fastest.
Stroll lost the rear of his Williams exiting Turn 9 and then spun across the track, hitting the barriers on the inside and losing his front wing.
Ricciardo goes slower still, he's 11th and 8.2s off the pace!
Alonso is only 10th of the 10 to set times.
Crash
Stroll is off at Turn 9!
Verstappen grabs third ahead of Hamilton and Gasly.
Magnussen just slid wide in the heavy rain at Turn 14.
Hamilton is third, 2.6s behind Vettel.
Magnussen is a full 4.332s slower than Vettel in second after going wide, but even Sainz is 2.1s slower with a clean lap.
Crash
Magnussen goes off at the final corner.
Radio Comms
Verstappen is told to "expect conditions to worsen" and that the "early laps are important'.
Replays show pieces appearing to come off Vettel's car as he braked at the start of his flying lap.
The track is soaking in the final sector and the pit straight.
Stopwatch
Vettel pops in a 1m28.636s on inters while everyone else is changing tyres.
Gasly understeered off the damp track at Turn 13 - that's how tricky it was in the final sector on slicks.
And the pack, minus Vettel, piles in to switch to intermediates.
It looks like it's raining heavily in the final sector.
Vettel is the only driver on the green-walled intermediates.
Vettel comes out immediately on the intermediates.
Radio Comms
Haas tells Grosjean to evaluate the track on the out-lap and then decided to come back in for inters.
Green flag
Q2 begins...
Radio Comms
Hamilton and Mercedes appear to be slightly confused about whether he had time to do another lap at the end of Q1. "I didn't realise I was running out of time," he said. Mercedes told him he was fine, to which the four-time world champion insisted he'd crossed the line with the red lights on. He returned to the pits, no doubt to continue the saga in person.
Replays show a small plastic strip was trailing off a cooling inlet on the left-hand side of Hamilton's Mercedes, near the base of the halo.
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Into Q2: 1 Vettel; 2 Verstappen; 3 Bottas; 4 Hamilton; 5 Raikkonen; 6 Sainz; 7 Grosjean; 8 Hulkenberg; 9 Alonso; 10 Magnussen; 11 Hartley; 12 Ricciardo; 13 Stroll; 14 Gasly; 15 Ericsson
Crash
Eliminated in Q1: 16 Vandoorne; 17 Leclerc; 18 Ocon; 19 Perez; 20 Sirotkin
After all that, it's a McLaren, a Sauber, two Force Indias and a Williams out.
Magnussen makes it out of the bottom five at the last minute too.
Ricciardo moves up to 11th, then Hartley immediately pushes him to 12th.
Bottas goes third, behind Vettel and Verstappen.
Stopwatch
Vettel goes fastest by 0.753s over Hamilton.
Gasly goes up to 11th, Ricciardo is down to 14th.
Final efforts in Q1 then.
Sainz improves to fifth, Vettel is on a very quick lap in third.
Checkered flag
The chequered flag is out.
Leclerc and Gasly are on the bubble in 14th and 15th.
Hartley, Perez, Sirotkin, Magnussen and Ocon are now in the bottom five.
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