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Formula 1 Mexican GP

Mexican GP Friday practice

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Raikkonen improves to second, 0.097s off Verstappen. Both are on softs.
Home hero Sergio Perez is now in 'best of the rest' mode in seventh on softs.
Bottas, on softs, improves to fourth ahead of the Ferraris.
Daniel Ricciardo goes third on softs, 0.355s off pacesetting team-mate Verstappen.
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As that McLaren tweet explains, that was a loose wheel for Vandoorne not a(nother) engine problem.
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Early order: 1 Verstappen (softs); 2 Alonso (ultra-softs); 3 Vettel (super-softs); 4 Raikkonen (softs); 5 Bottas (softs); 6 Hulkenberg (super-softs)
Radio Comms
"Fernando, you're currently P2," McLaren tells Alonso.
Sebastian Vettel slots into third on super-softs, 0.470s off Verstappen and just under a tenth ahead of Raikkonen.
Stopwatch
Max Verstappen, on softs, goes fastest by 0.142s over Alonso's ultra-soft time.
Hamilton lost it through the final fast left of the set of bends heading onto the back straight. He just stopped the car before the wall.
Radio Comms
"OK Lewis, keep the speed down coming in," Mercedes tells Hamilton as he heads back to the pits.
Radio Comms
"I'll recharge and go again, the tyres weren't ready," Hartley, who is 2.7s off the pace in seventh, tells Toro Rosso.
Radio Comms
"Yellow, yellow," Bottas is told. "Lewis has spun at the exit of Turn 11."
Crash
Lewis Hamilton has a spin on his first flying lap! He avoids hitting anything.
Raikkonen goes fourth fastest on softs.
Hulkenberg, on super-softs, goes second to Alonso but is quickly beaten by Sainz.
Stopwatch
Alonso and his ultra-softs go fastest with a 1m19.235s, 2.4s clear of Magnussen.
McLaren crew members have now reached Vandoorne and are bringing him back to the garage.
Radio Comms
"Look after the temperatures for overheating," Haas advises Magnussen.
Current pacesetter Magnussen spent a while trapped behind Vandoorne's broken McLaren in the pit exit there.
Radio Comms
"What should I do? What should I do?" asks Vandoorne. "Stoffel, engine off," he is told.
Vandoorne barely got out of the pits before that happened. He's already taken a massive grid penalty to get fresh components for this weekend.
Crash
More problems for Vandoorne already - he reports further engine trouble and is advised to park.
First back out are Alonso and Hulkenberg, followed by Raikkonen and Carlos Sainz Jr.
Green flag
The track is clear, and the green light is bakc on with just under one hour and 17 minutes to go.
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The session will restart in two minutes.

Everyone took super-softs for those initial runs bar Fernando Alonso (ultra-softs), Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa (softs).
Fourteen drivers had left the pits before the stoppage, but most of them had to abandon their first flying laps.
Seven drivers set times before that stoppage, but only Magnussen and Hartley did full-pace laps.
Grosjean is now back in the pits as marshals get rid of the debris on the straight.

By: Geoff Creighton

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