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By: Jake Boxall-Legge

Summary

Hamilton heads Bottas as Mercedes top both Friday practice sessions
Perez beats Vettel to third on soft tyre runs in 'pink Mercedes' Racing Point
Verstappen and Raikkonen both run into the Turn 6 gravel
Grosjean's Haas fixed after brake fluid leak to get first proper mileage 
Status: Stopped
That's all for today folks. Thank you so much for your company. Please do join us again on Saturday morning for live coverage of FP3 from 11am UK time.
 
 
 
 
 
The grid is forming up on the actual grid to do practice starts due to pit exit being steeper than a pint in a London pub.
Ocon heads the rest of the pack in 11th on a 1m05.415s, with Kvyat, Albon, Giovinazzi, Magnussen, Grosjean, Gasly, Russell, Raikkonen and Latifi rounding out the field.
At the end of FP2, Hamilton leads a Mercedes 1-2 again with a 1m04.304s, with Perez, Vettel, Ricciardo, Norris, Stroll, Verstappen, Leclerc and Sainz completing the top 10.
Session has come to an end.
I would give Norris' lap a 6.9.
Norris has been asked to give "100% pace". McLaren clearly wants to climb up the order on F1's new graphics.
Grosjean says there was "very weird locking" on his Haas.
Hamilton has scored 8.8 in the high speed turns, Vettel 8.7, Bottas 8.6, Verstappen 8.4, Albon 8.3. Think these are rankings for an ultimate team pack or something.
That Honda engine of the Red Bull on the overrun sounds like my voice after a concert.
Perez told he's "matching Verstappen" during his race run.
 
Presumably there's a panel of judges parked at the high speed turns waving score boards.
Apparently Hamilton has scored 8.8 out of 10 through the high speed corners - whatever that means.
Bottas is in the pits after reporting that the "shifting isn't working".
Vettel doing his afternoon's race runs on the hard rubber.
It was the Haas of Grosjean who spun at Turn 3.
Someone had an off in sector two.
Replay of Stroll's track limits problem. Got through Turn 10 ok but had a bit of a snap and ended up rattling over the kerb.
 
 
Stroll the latest to win the laptime deletion lottery for running wide at Turn 10.
 
Verstappen has come in for a set of medium tyres.
Mercifully, the threatening clouds have dispersed and looks like we'll get through this session with no weather interruptions.
Just 20 minutes remaining now for Friday practice.
Similar incident to Verstappen in FP1. Red Bull had a bit of a problem with spinning during testing.
Albon has spun up at Turn 1.
 
One observation I've made is the lack of filled grandstands hasn't exactly been all that noticeable during sessions.
Hamilton had a lao deleted for running too wide at Turn 10. Not the first and won't be the last driver to fall foul of track limit rules this weekend.
We're firmly into race run territory now with 26 minutes of the session remaining. 1.9s covers the top 19 drivers.
 
Same moment for Verstappen as Raikkonen had earlier. Verstappen kept it out of the barriers, though.

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