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By: Geoff Creighton

Summary

Bottas takes a clean sweep of practice sessions for the Spanish Grand Prix
Hamilton second fastest, with Ferrari third and fourth
Verstappen completes the top five for Red Bull
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Status: Stopped
That's a wrap for our live coverage for Friday. See you tomorrow for the final practice and qualifying, and in the meantime check back with Autosport and Motorsport.com for driver and team reaction.
 
 
Final FP2 order: 1 Bottas, 2 Hamilton, 3 Leclerc, 4 Vettel, 5 Verstappen, 6 Grosjean, 7 Gasly, 8 Magnussen, 9 Sainz, 10 Kvyat, 11 Raikkonen, 12 Albon, 13 Stroll, 14 Hulkenberg, 15 Ricciardo, 16 Norris, 17 Giovinazzi, 18 Perez, 19 Russell, 20 Kubica.
It's been a good day for Mercedes - slightly ahead of Ferrari over a single lap, and seemingly ahead on race pace, although watch out for our more complete analysis later today.
Chequered flag's out for FP2.
"Struggling. Something feels wrong," Hamilton tells Mercedes. He's informed that the team is observing "poor torque", or something to that effect.
Five minutes left on the clock here.
The pattern seen over a single lap has held up with longer runs, in that Mercedes and Ferrari look evenly matched through S1 and S2 before Mercedes streaks ahead in S3.
Replays show Gasly giving Ricciardo, the driver he replaced at Red Bull, little room on the main straight.
Correction, the timing screen had not updated, so it seems that the Leclerc effort was on a fresher set of hards - which would make a lot more sense. Both leading teams are now splitting their running between the two harder compounds.
A better sign for Ferraris is that Vettel has pumped in a series of mid-1m22s laps on mediums, which seems decent enough.

Even better is that Leclerc is up to a 1m22.7s - potentially the fastest race lap he's done so far - on a soft tyre that's done 23 laps.
Prefacing this next observation with the caveat that only the teams know what engine modes and fuel loads they're running, but the Mercedes cars are lapping low-to-mid 1m22s, which is better than what Ferrari has shown.
Kvyat has been properly off though the gravel exiting Turn 1, and can probably count himself a little fortunate not to have found the barriers.
Leclerc has now taken his softs to 18 laps, and is still at respectable pace, while Vettel has switched to the medium tyre.
Haas certainly doesn't seem to be enjoying the kind of advantage on race pace that it has over a single lap.
 
There's a fair few other midfield cars running in low-to-mid 1m23s, so take this with a grain of salt for now.
No comparison to Mercedes yet, but Ferrari's initial race pace on used softs seems to be in the 1m22s high to 1m23s low range. Around a second quicker than Haas at least.
Red Bull announced a new addition to its junior programme yesterday in impressive IndyCar rookie Patricio O'Ward - and the Mexican driver has now made it clear that he fancies an F1 move.
Red Bull's O'Ward targeting IndyCar-to-F1 move
The Ferraris are now indeed into the race simulations, while the two Mercedes cars are in the pits, running on a slightly staggered programme compared to the Scuderia.
Current order: 1 Bottas, 2 Hamilton, 3 Leclerc, 4 Vettel, 5 Verstappen, 6 Grosjean, 7 Gasly, 8 Magnussen, 9 Sainz, 10 Kvyat, 11 Raikkonen, 12 Albon, 13 Stroll, 14 Hulkenberg, 15 Ricciardo, 16 Norris, 17 Giovinazzi, 18 Perez, 19 Russell, 20 Kubica.
 
Unlike Gasly, Verstappen has been unable to improve on his initial soft-tyre attempt. so he's likely to end the day 0.751s off the pace. It appears we're now into everyone's favourite part of Friday - the long runs.
Fairly major off for Raikkonen, the Finn going through the gravel at Turn 8. The Finn is 11th in the timesheets, between the Toro Rosso pair of Kvyat and Albon.
Hamilton has found some extra pace in the final sector, which has made for a better overall laptime. He's still 0.049s slower than Bottas.
Bottas' second push lap on softs is not as good as his first, but it's still 0.005s better than Hamilton's quickest effort.
Gasly, who has now done a third flying-lap attempt on that same set of softs, has improved once more, clearing Magnussen for seventh despite a messy exit from Turn 15.
"I lost power suddenly. It's going now, but I was accelerating, well, with the pedal and it was not accelerating," Verstappen reports.
Stroll has just done a soft-tyre run, moving up to 13th. Despite running in mixed-specification after his FP1 off, he's half a second up on Perez.
On current evidence, the Red Bulls are very much in the fight against Haas rather than Mercedes/Ferrari. Verstappen is three quarters of a second down on Leclerc but just a tenth up on Grosjean.
Verstappen's first flying lap is good enough for fifth, half a second up on Gasly, who was 0.018s slower than his previous best effort that time by.
Bottas is quicker still in the final sector, and this takes him back to P1, courtesy of a 1m17.284s.
Indeed, he takes care of that deficit in S2, and then is quicker in the third sector as well for a new benchmark of 1m17.410s.
Hamilton is the first Mercedes driver to begin a soft-tyre flyer. He's two tenths down on Leclerc in S1 - but it's not where the W10 has looked strongest.
 
Toro Rosso drivers Albon and Kvyat have just recorded their soft-tyre attempts, and they sit 10th and 11th respectively. Raikkonen's qualifying simulation attempt is only good enough for 15th.
Gasly nearly replicated Kubica's spin on his outlap, and it looks to have hurt his first flyer. He ultimately comes through in sixth, a second down on Leclerc.
The Renaults have done their first soft-tyre attempts, and they're not in the the Haas team's league at the moment as far as the midfield fight is concerned. Hulkenberg is 1.3s off the pace, Ricciardo is a further three tenths down.
Magnussen has now joined Haas team-mate Grosjean in the top five, the pair 0.568s and 0.792s off the pace respectively. Strong showing, although we're still waiting for soft-tyre runs from Mercedes and Red Bull.

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