It turns out you love F1-dog puns...

Robert Smith III: Gerhard Leonberger.

Dave Morley: Alsatian Prost?

Richard Stephenson: Eddie Retreiver... Spaniel Riccardo

Slartibartfast: St Bernard Ecclestone...

Lewis Hamilton, with his 93rd new engine of the season (it's not really that many) is the new quickest man in second practice, setting a 1:49.782 to go three hundreths of a second ahead of Kimi Raikkonen.

Daniel Ricciardo is three tenths down in third.

Nico Rosberg has yet to get going and is in P7.

We have an hour to go.

It's not F1, but the sentiments are the same - here's Alexis Sanchez with his dog.

Awww!

Hmmm. Jolyon Palmer turns it off and on again and his Renault fires into life.

He'll head straight to the pits for a proper once over.

Remember, nobody is above playing F1-dog puns and if you think you are, you are barking mad.

SeanSamuel Cozens: @CozensSean Gaston Mazza-Corgi

Slartibartfast: K-MAG (Kevin Magnussen) surely. He's a Great Dane..

Gareth Bow: Daschmund Hill

Jolyon Palmer's not having a great day. He had issues in FP1 and now he's crawling to the edge of the track, the bright yellow Renault looking like a Reliant Robin that's got a bit too adventurous.

"I feel a vibration," he says before having to pull over and losing power.

Lewis Hamilton has had another engine change - that's another 15-place penalty.

Get your abacus out. That's 30 places in total on a 22-car grid.

There could be even more to come over the weekend.

So - Kimi Raikkonen leads on 1:49.815 with Daniel Ricciardo 0.25secs down and Valtteri Bottas six tenths behind the front runner.

"It was a bad lap with some traffic at the beginning," Vettel tells Ferrari on the radio.

We're seeing a lap from the point of view of Sebastian Vettel's cockpit. It's an eventful lap, including almost going into the back of a Force India at the hairpin at La Source.

Image source, EPA

We have a Ferrari top of the leaderboard.

Kimi Raikkonen goes quickest with a 1:49.926.

Take that Mercedes!

Oh wait, Mercedes haven't gone out yet.

"The rear end is a disaster," says Esteban Gutierrez to his Haas team.

That's another Haas driver having a grumble in the first 10 minutes of the session.

Your F1-dog puns please - we have no shame.

gav: Jacques "Russell" Villeneuve

Bob Taylor: Bernese Eccleston

Both are wonderful. Use #bbcf1.

Valtteri Bottas sets the early pace at 1:50.412.

Meanwhile, Romain Grosjean's mood goes from grumpy to grouchy as he tells his team he's got a warning light.

So much love for Max Verstappen.

The Dutchman was actually born in Belgium, just 100km from Spa in Hasselt.

Aaaaand second practice is activated.

Let's all have some organised fun.

I think I can see Kimi Raikkonen's icy glare from up here...

Image source, AFP

Belgium's Olympic heptathlon champion Nafissatou Thiam is at Spa today. The gold medallist is a guest of Red Bull.

Odds on Max Verstappen or Daniel Ricciardo getting on the podium?