Spanish GP Friday practice
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While Gasly is eight laps into his run, it appears Lewis Hamilton is finally going to head out and complete his installation laps shortly. He's in the car and surrounded by mechanics.
Gasly has a quick confab with his engineer on the radio: He felt a loss of power out of the last chicane. He'll have to live with it for the rest of his run on the hards but they'll get it sorted at the next stop, the team says.
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Gasly's still plugging around on a set of hard tyres - perhaps the start of a long run? He's just done a 1m21.410s.
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Pierre Gasly has actually dared to set a lap time during the install procedures, clocking a 1m23.115s aboard his Red Bull.
Kevin Magnussen gets an early installation lap in during Free Practice 1.
Everyone except the Mercedes pair have now begun circulating for their installation laps.
Alexander Albon, Lando Norris, Daniel Ricciardo and Romain Grosjean quickly follow suit and head out for early installation laps.
Kyvat and Magnussen are first out, while Sainz takes a practice start from pit-lane.
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The Spanish Grand Prix weekend is underway with FP1!
Typical tyre allocations for Barcelona are demonstrated in Pirelli's choices below, with Circuit de Catalunya's high lateral loads from fast corners putting a lot of stress on the tyres.
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Another development to keep a keen eye on is Renault's new engine upgrade, which has been fast-tracked to this weekend instead of mid-summer as originally planned. Will it make a difference? 
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Barcelona is of course the start of the 'traditional' European season in Formula 1, which means a raft of upgrades for teams up and down the grid.
Mercedes aren't resting on their laurels after a quartet of 1-2 finishes, with plenty of tweaks for them to test out in today's pair of practice sessions. Take a look at what's new on the W10, and the other cars on the grid, with this handy tech explainer by GIORGIO PIOLA.
Mercedes aren't resting on their laurels after a quartet of 1-2 finishes, with plenty of tweaks for them to test out in today's pair of practice sessions. Take a look at what's new on the W10, and the other cars on the grid, with this handy tech explainer by GIORGIO PIOLA.
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Good morning everyone! Welcome to Autosport's live coverage of Friday Practice for the Spanish Grand Prix. We've got 90 minutes of practice starting at 11am local time, in a little over 10 minutes' time.
By: Geoff Creighton
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