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F1 Emilia Romagna GP Live Commentary and Updates - FP1 and FP2
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Leclerc also goes fourth, as the first Imola practice session comes to an end.
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Bottas and Hamilton have swept to the top two positions at the death, Bottas doing a 1m16.564s!
On the Ocon/Perez skirmish: "Nope. No crash, those were two separate incidents, as seen in the replays", says a Twitter reply-ist. Christian Horner says otherwise...
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Verstappen now goes top, logging a 1m16.622s to go fastest.
Gasly then returns to the top three, going third with a 1m17.020s.
Leclerc now fires his Ferrari up to P2, as the red cars look quite good around here.
Latifi had a bit of a wide moment at Rivazza, with Lavazza branding on his Williams. There's a coffee pun somewhere here, but I just can't seem to extract one...
Ricciardo gets up to P8 as the McLarens now come into play a little bit - having had a quiet session so far.
Sainz had gone a smidgen faster on his latest lap, but kicked a wheel on the gravel on the run from the final corner.
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Hamilton now goes top with a 1m16.892s, with the best middle sector so far.
Alonso does a better lap to go P9 on softs, but immediately gets displaced from the top 10 by Norris and Leclerc.
Alonso kicks us back off for the final 12 minutes of the session.
Green flag
We're back up and running now.
As it stands, our top 10 is: Sainz, Verstappen, Bottas, Gasly, Hamilton, Latifi, Russell, Vettel, Giovinazzi, Perez.
Breaking news
Some news to bridge the gap - Paul di Resta will be one of the members of McLaren's reserve driver pool, although the team also has access to Mercedes' reserves too: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/di-resta-on-standby-as-mclaren-f1-reserve-/6290629/
Ocon's right front looks out-of-kilter, so he's presumably gone into Perez somewhere. Just call me Sherlock...
Red flag
Perez's left-rear is totalled there - but not yet sure how Ocon played into that one...
Crash
Perez and Ocon have had a crash, it seems! Red flag.
Stopwatch
...Sainz then capitalises on his pace in sector 1 and logs a 1m17.296s to go fastest once more.
Stopwatch
Speaking of final sectors, Verstappen's latest effort is purple to elevate himself to P1, with a 1m17.331s. But...
But Sainz's session-best first sector can't lift him beyond fifth, as the final sector looked a little bit average.
Vettel goes sixth on a set of softs, as Sainz is on a hot one...
Stopwatch
Bottas ends Gasly's reign at the top of the timesheets, doing a 1m17.396s to go fastest so far.
As I type that, Russell now goes P5, with Latifi, Ocon and Giovinazzi also moving above Raikkonen in the timings.
Raikkonen now lifts himself from P17 to P5, a leap that Carl Lewis would be proud of...
Latifi continues a strong FP1 by going up to P7, lifting himself above Bottas.
Off track
An off for Verstappen there, dipping into the gravel at the Tamburello on the previous lap. He manages to navigate it this time around...
We're about to come to the end of the first half-hour, and it's playtime for the mechanics. A bit of work being done to Vettel's front brakes, while Bottas is a couple of set-up changes.
Ocon gets up to P7 in the Alpine, as Alonso is now out on track and circulating around. The team has a new aero package - a few bits to the floor and a new front wing too.
Stopwatch
And that's P1 for Gasly! A 1m17.470s for the AlphaTauri driver, with a fastest opening sector of anyone to boot.
Gasly now up to second place with a 1m17.743s. Sainz from Gasly has serious 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 vibes...
Mazepin's managed to keep his car facing the right way for a full lap, going P18 so far. Just Alonso and Leclerc left to set laps.
Gasly goes fourth fastest, slotting into that hefty gap between Verstappen and Bottas in the timings.
Yesterday, Hamilton said that if he was an animal, he'd like to be a dinosaur. He's ahead of Verstappen today, so that's not too ptero-ble...
Hamilton is P2, 0.195s off Sainz. Verstappen is P3, about 0.7s ahead of Bottas in P4.
Off track
Tsunoda's had an off, but manages to fish the car out of the gravel and goes on his merry way.
Stopwatch
Sainz went top again, finding a 1m17.682s.
Tsunoda, Alonso, Spinny Joe, Leclerc and Schumacher are yet to set times.
There's Latifi in fourth, going 0.04s off Verstappen there.
Stroll got up to P5 briefly, before Verstappen re-displaced him and moved up to P3.
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