British GP Friday practice
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By: Geoff Creighton
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That's your lot from us for Friday practice (in terms of live coverage, at least). You can stay up to date with everything going on at Silverstone on Autosport and Motorsport.com this afternoon, and we'll be back again tomorrow from 10:50am for live updates from FP3. Thanks for joining us. 
"We think it will be interesting to back off and see if we can recover these tyres," Alonso is told.
Alonso's reply is blunt in tone but we can't really make much of it out.
Alonso's reply is blunt in tone but we can't really make much of it out.
Nice little on-track squabble between Leclerc - who's clearly recovered from his spin - and Alonso, who go side-by-side into Copse.
Gary Anderson has spotted Red Bull running different downforce levels for its two cars. Here is Ricciardo's front wing, which is in lower-downforce spec than Verstappen's
If it feels like F1 has been non-stop of late, it's not just you. This is the first year F1 has experimented with a triple-header and, by the sounds of things, it might not be something we see again in 2019. 
Triple-header race sequence unlikely to return on 2019 F1 calendar
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Honda confirms Gasly's issue was with the car's power unit, which was a high-mileage one and due to be changed overnight anyway.
Every driver except Vandoorne (and Gasly, Verstappen and Grosjean, but they're out-out) is on track right now, with under 20 minutes of the session remaining.
While we're in long-run mode, here's a run down of the current order: 1 Vettel 1m27.552s, 2 Hamilton, 3 Bottas, 4 Raikkonen, 5 Ricciardo, 6 Alonso, 7 Hulkenberg, 8 Ocon, 9 Perez, 10 Leclerc, 11 Sainz, 12 Magnussen, 13 Gasly, 14 Ericsson, 15 Stroll, 16 Sirotkin, 17 Vandoorne, 18 Hartley, 19 Verstappen (no time)
Ferrari's information would suggest that we're into long-run territory. Those have been delayed a bit by the stoppage for Verstappen's off.
There was a yellow flag out for that, but Gasly's thoughtful parking means the car is quickly behind the wall and the track is clear again.
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