Austrian GP Friday practice
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By: Geoff Creighton
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Here's our full report from FP2. Thanks for joining us today - we'll be back from 10:45am UK time tomorrow with live coverage of final practice for the Austrian Grand Prix. In the meantime, keep up to date with the latest stories emerging from Friday practice with Autosport and Motorsport.com. See yout tomorrow. 
Magnussen is told to stop the car before exiting the pits. He was released before his right-front tyre had been attached properly.
Magnussen adopts a different approach to avoiding the yellow kerbs exiting Turn 9 and runs far wider out of the corner.
"I have no tyres anymore," says Vandoorne, who complains his ultrasofts have gone off while following other cars. "They're finished."
Bit of a battle up at Turn 3 between Perez and Verstappen, who slides up the inside of the Force India before squirming out wide exiting the corner.
Ricciardo is now attempting a run on supersofts, and Hamilton - after a short run on ultras - now heads back out on the soft tyre.
Alonso goes wide at Turn 7 and dips his front-right wheel into the gravel before straightening the car out approaching Turn 8.
Bottas's first lap on this long run is a 1m08.6s. That's around the same bracket Vettel has been lapping in - although the Ferrari driver was in the high 1m08.4s on his first few laps.
Hamilton is also out on track now.
Hamilton is also out on track now.
Magnussen complains about a power unit issue and is told to avoid eighth gear. His latest lap is a 1m09.220s.
Less than 25 minutes of the session remain, but Toro Rosso are attempting to repair Gasly's car in time to allow him to head back out again.
Here's Gasly explaining his front-left suspension failure: “[It] was a bit strange. After the first run I felt some vibrations on the front-left and the team checked on the car, everything was fine.
"Then we went out, and then at Turn 9 I had a bit of understeer, went on the kerb, and the suspension completely broke there. I don’t really know why, and it’s a bit annoying not to be able to complete the session.”
"Then we went out, and then at Turn 9 I had a bit of understeer, went on the kerb, and the suspension completely broke there. I don’t really know why, and it’s a bit annoying not to be able to complete the session.”
Big wobbly moment for Leclerc exiting Turn 9, which compromises his entry for the final corner two. He runs out wide before rejoining the circuit.
With a little more than half an hour to go, we're into long-run territory now. Vettel is the first of the leading runners out, on a set of ultrasofts.
Finally we have an improvement from one of the leading runners on those ultrasofts! Bottas gets marginally closer to Hamilton - by 12 thousandths - with a new personal best second sector.
Verstappen ran wide exiting Turn 9, which undoes some of the hard work he'd done by setting personal bests in the first and second sectors.
Purple on the timing screens now. Hamilton was fastest of all in the second sector, with Bottas fastest in the first before backing out.
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