Postpublished at 16:43 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
A Stoffel "the Waffle" Vandoorne update...
His McLaren is off the jacks and he has a clear track to lay a few laps down...
Summary
FP2 standings: Vettel fastest; Bottas 2nd, Ricciardo 3rd; Hamilton 5th
Vettel suffers problems with his Ferrari
Vettel fastest in first practice; Hamilton 10th
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Tight at the toppublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Jack Nicholls
Radio 5 live Formula 1 commentatorThe top five cars are covered by less than three tenths of a second - what a season we have in store!
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Postpublished at 16:41 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Hmm Valtteri Bottas' T-wing appears to have flown off his car
May have to get a marshal out to collect that - shouldn't require a virtual safety car though...
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 16:38 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Lewis Hamilton has had to abandon two flying laps - one due to a lock up, one due to traffic on the track...
"These drivers are just so dangerous, man" he says relatively calmly after Nico Hulkenberg cuts him up...
I say calmly - I'm comparing him to me when driving...
#RoadRage
Verstappen: 'Yeah, I'd beat Hamilton'published at 16:36 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesRed Bull's Max Verstappen responding to being asked by BBC's F1 chief writer Andrew Benson if he would beat Lewis Hamilton in the same car?
"Probably I will sound really arrogant, but for sure."
Postpublished at 16:35 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
The red-walled super softs are doing wonders for the lap times here at the Sakhir circuit.
Nico Hulkenberg in the Renault has just managed to clock a 1:31:883 - just half a second slower than the Ferrari and Mercedes...
Postpublished at 16:32 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Pirelli's prediction has come true. We are seeing the first car out on the super softs - first up is Sebastian Vettel, followed very closely by Valtteri Bottas.
Oooof the Ferrari clocks a 1:31:310
aaaannnnnddddddd...
Bottas shows what the Silver Arrow can do with a...
Oh! He can't top it - he trails Vettel by 0.041.
What can Hamilton do?
Image source, Rex FeaturesThose lights though...published at 16:26 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
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Quick update on your top 5 fastest, 20 minutes into FP2 while everyone is in the pits...
- K. Raikkonen 1:32:277
- L. Hamilton +0.013
- V. Bottas +0.337
- S. Vettel +0.338
- M. Verstappen +0.492
'It was maybe an electrical issue'published at 16:23 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Mark Gallagher
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analystIt looked a bit ominous in Sainz's Toro Rosso. Maybe an electrical issue. I think he thought the better of it where he was stopping - he drove down to the marshal's post.
The fire extinguisher might have gone off because of the fire.
Postpublished at 16:22 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Sainz appears to have had some sort of power unit failure - a few of these cars aren't handling the heat that well.
Postpublished at 16:20 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Uh oh...
Carlos Sainz's Toro Rosso has just had to pull off the track after a huge plume of smoke appeared at the rear....
Postpublished at 16:17 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Cor blimey...
Valtteri Bottas has gone fastest, beating Vettel by just one 1000th of a second.
And immediately afterwards Lewis Hamilton overtakes him and then immediately after that Kimi Raikkonen takes the lead again...
Mercedes
Ferrari
Mercedes
Ferrari
Mercedes
Ferrari...
This is all the making of a great race...
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 16:14 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Everyone still out of the softs by the way - Pirelli say there will still be a lot of "track evolution" in this practice session.
They think everyone will look to change to the super softs in about half an hour to simulate the exact track conditions of Sunday's race.
Fine margins...
Postpublished at 16:11 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
After a successful practice start, Fernando Alonso's rear end kicked out at turn one after a huge lock up. He has set a time though: 1:34:480.
Postpublished at 16:06 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Now the two Ferrari's are out and Sebastian Vettel - on softs - records his first timed lap.
Oo a little slide on turn five but recovered well.
Ahhh! Ohhhh! There they are - the sparks - the just look brilliant!
Vettel sets the pace with a 1:32:615...
Kimi Raikkonen comes straight back in to the pits...
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 16:03 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
The two Haas cars are out first under the lights.
It's looking pretty dreamy out there although I am sure for many of those in fireproof suits in the pit lane, a light breeze wouldn't go a miss...
Go! Go! Go!published at 16:00 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
And we are away...
'Vandoorne has had a bit of a rude shock so far'published at 16:00 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Bahrain
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Stoffel Vandoorne of Belgium and McLaren Honda is given a lift back to the paddock after breaking down on track during practice
You have to feel for McLaren’s Stoffel Vandoorne. He has had a very troubled started to his first full grand prix season.
The Belgian, who is rated highly as a potential future superstar, out-qualified team-mate Jenson Button on a one-off debut for McLaren here last year. But this season has not gone as well.
While Fernando Alonso has reminded all of his enduring quality with two spectacular performances in Australia and Bahrain, a car problem in qualifying in Australia left him 18th on the grid and he finished last in a race for most of which Alonso was running 10th.
And in China he was simply off Alonso’s pace all Saturday and Sunday. Now he’s had an engine failure that will cost him crucial running in Bahrain.
Since he was announced as Button’s replacement, Vandoorne has been asked repeatedly how he felt about the challenge of going up against Alonso in his debut season - about as tough as it gets. He has said he was confident in his ability. He still is, but insiders say 2017 been a bit of a rude shock so far.
Postpublished at 16:00 British Summer Time 14 April 2017
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