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Formula 1 Mexican GP

Mexican GP Friday practice

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Radio Comms
Grosjean's radio commentary of what unfolded was mostly swearing.
Then as Grosjean sped down the pits straight, his left rear tyre delaminated spectacularly, spreading tyre and bodywork debris.
Replays show Grosjean snapped into a spin at the exit of the final corner, slid broadside for some time and then rejoined.
Red flag
The session is being red-flagged so the debris from Grosjean's Haas can be cleared.
Radio Comms
"I think some debris came off, the pressure is still there," Grosjean's engineer tells him. "I can see something very wrong."
Crash
Now Grosjean is struggling around with a delaminated tyre.
Brendon Hartley pops a lap straight in too and goes second, 0.310s behind Magnussen.
Crash
While one Haas completes a lap, the other has an incident - Grosjean spins at the final corner.
Stopwatch
Magnussen stays out and immediately does a time of 1m21.669s.
Radio Comms
"The car's pulling left to right on the straight," reports Ocon. "Copy that," says Force India, "we'll see how it goes as it warms up."
Radio Comms
"Stoffel, front brakes are new so warm up the front brakes," McLaren asks Vandoorne.
Haas pair Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean set off too, like Vandoorne they're on super-softs.
Stoffel Vandoorne, who barely ran this morning, is first out.
Green flag
The green light comes on and second practice begins.
Dry weather again at the Mexico City track, and sunny, with the temperature rising and the giant stands getting fuller.
We should be back to the 20 regulars for the afternoon session after a gaggle of Friday testers popped in earlier.

Sean Gelael hands the Toro Rosso back to Pierre Gasly, Antonio Giovinazzi gives Romain Grosjean his Haas back and Force India's half-day as an all-Mexican team ends as Alfonso Celis Jr steps out of Esteban Ocon's car.
Today began with Mercedes domination in practice one - though with Valtteri Bottas fastest in a break from the norm, and on top by nearly half a second too.

Red Bull was closest to the silver cars, while the weekend on which Ferrari's 2017 Formula 1 title hopes could be ended began badly for Sebastian Vettel - he was nearly eight tenths off the pace in fifth.
Welcome back to Autosport Live, where we're gearing up for second practice for the Mexican Grand Prix.
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We'll pause our live coverage there for now. Make sure to join us for the start of FP2 – we'll kick things off just before the session starts, so come back around 7.45pm UK time. Until then, here's our FP1 report. Bye for now:

Mexican GP FP1: Valtteri Bottas leads Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes 1-2

Valtteri Bottas beat Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton to the quickest time in the opening practice session for the Mexican Grand Prix

Mexican GP FP1: Valtteri Bottas leads Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes 1-2
Ferrari only using the super-soft tyres and being 0.75s off Mercedes suggests we might have all three teams in the mix here. F1 2017 is finishing in rather competitive fashion.
Edd Straw
Big lock up for Raikkonen at Turn 13 at the end of the session. He ran very wide. Same for Vettel but less extreme, so not anywhere near as wide.
How about that between the Renault drivers? Just 0.002s between them. Hulkenberg vs Sainz is going to be fun next year.
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1 Bottas 1m17.824s
2 Hamilton 1m18.290s
3 Verstappen 1m18.395s
4 Ricciardo 1m18.421s
5 Vettel 1m18.586s
6 Raikkonen 1m19.008s
7 Perez 1m19.240s
8 Alonso 1m19.346s
9 Massa 1m19.443s
10 Hulkenberg 1m19.552s
11 Sainz 1m19.554s
12 Stroll 1m19.772s
13 Magnussen 1m20.644s
14 Wehrlein 1m20.971s
15 Giovinazzi 1m21.269s
16 Leclerc 1m21.446s
17 Gelael 1m21.639s
18 Hartley 1m21.747s
19 Celis 1m22.342s
20 Vandoorne no time
Checkered flag
Chequered flag – FP1 is over, and Valtteri Bottas is quickest for Mercedes.
Two minutes to go in this session. Magnussen's made steady progress since making it back out and is up 13th now, ahead of Wehrlein.
Replays show a big lock-up for Sainz into Turn 1. Sailed past the apex, over the run-off – over the grass, in fact.
Stroll complaining about being "out of sync" on fuel loads with "everyone". Bizarre complaint. Not sure what he's getting upset about.
Wehrlein's ahead of both Toro Rossos and both Haas drivers in this session. Currently 13th. That's a fine effort from the Mercedes junior.
Five minutes to go in this session. Any chance of a late improvement at the top?

1 Bottas
2 Hamilton
3 Verstappen
4 Ricciardo
5 Vettel
6 Raikkonen

The F1 drivers came in two-by-two, hurrah, hurrah...

By: Geoff Creighton

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