Summary

  • Rosberg fastest in second practice

  • Sainz breaks down

  • Get involved #bbcf1: your stars of the season

  • Hamilton fastest in first practice

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Gary Rose

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  2. Drivers are getting properly stuck into their long runs now. 

    Pacesetter Nico Rosberg has done 14 laps on his set of supersofts tyres and is lapping in the 1.49s at the moment.

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    Alonso

  4. Sebastian Vettel heads in, switches to softs, and heads back out. His Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, meanwhile, stays out on the supersofts tyres.

  5. Allan McNish
    BBC Radio 5 live analyst

    We saw BBW, that is brake by wire. He stopped the car straight away.

    Carlos Sainz
    Carlos Sainz

  6. Carlos Sainz is parked in the run-off at Turn 7. Replays show that he suffered a problem and was immediately told to switch the engine off. 

    He climbs out of the car and over the barrier and perches on top of a bench, chattiong with a couple of marshals.

  7. yellow flag

    Yellow flag

    The yellow flags are waved for the first time in the session and it is for the Toro Rosso of Carlos Sainz.

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  9. We're into long-run territory now so after the qualifying sims this is the top 10 with just over half an hour to go:

    1) Rosberg 2) Hamilton 3) Perez 4) Ricciardo 5) Vettel 6) Kvyat 7) Raikkonen 8) Hulkenberg 9) Alonso 10) Maldonado

  11. Talking about eyebrow-raising times, look at this from Fernando Alonso. His qualifying simulation run sees him put down a 1:42.955 and the McLaren is just one second off the pace of Mercedes.

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  13. Anyway, back to important matters. An eyebrow-raising lap from  Sergio Perez, 1:42.610 seeing him storm up to P3. Great effort. 

    The entire field have made the switch to supersoft tyres now.

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    Rick Astley

    Come to think of it, has anyone seen James Allen and Rick Asltey in the same room?

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    James Allen

  15. James Allen
    BBC Radio 5 live F1 commentator

    Some people used to say I looked like Rick Astley when I was at school.

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  17. As Mercedes' tweet a little earlier hinted at, Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton have indeed got their qualifying simulations under way. Rosberg improves with 1:41.983, a gain of 0.8s and he's into P1. Lewis Hamilton's first soft tyre run isn't as good, a 1:42.121, and he is P2.

  18. Celeb spot!

    A blast from the past in the paddock, with Rick Astley making an appearance. Those of a certain age will remember him well from his 80s classic "Never Gonna Give You Up". Younger followers might be more familiar with being "Rickrolled." 

  20. Vettel

    Sebastian Vettel comes round on his first qualifying sim run, sparks beautifully kicking up as he screams round a corner. 

    He clocks 1:42.717, which faster than Nico Rosberg's best but not enough to knock Lewis Hamilton off top spot.