Summary
McLaren and Honda confirm split
Ricciardo fastest in first and second practice, Ferraris hit problems
Sainz's loan to Renault to replace Palmer for 2018 confirmed
McLaren sign three-year deal with Renault, Toro Rosso join with Honda from 2018
Final practice at 11:00 BST Saturday & qualifying at 14:00
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Stroll out of sessionpublished at 10:44 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
Top 10published at 10:43 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
1 Ricciardo 2 Vettel 3 Verstappen 4 Hamilton 5 Bottas 6 Raikkonen 7 Alonso 8 Perez 9 Hulkenberg 10 Kvyat
Image source, Getty ImagesAh, Ferrari, welcomepublished at 10:40 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
Sebastian Vettel throws off the shackles and plonks the Ferrari into P2 on the ultra-soft tyre.
He splits the two Red Bulls, just 0.109s off Ricciardo.
Ricciardo sets new track recordpublished at 10:37 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
Daniel Ricciardo is back on top with a 1:42.489. That's better than last year's pole time and indeed is a new track record.
Wow. Save some for qualifying, lads.
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Alonso into P6published at 10:31 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
Despite his protestations, the McLaren-Honda of Alonso seems to be benefiting from his team's suggestion and the Spaniard is up into P6, within a second of pacesetter Verstappen.
Verstappen back into P1published at 10:30 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
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'You want me to... drive?'published at 10:29 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
The McLaren team asks Fernando Alonso to do an out-lap and then an extra lap before doing a quick one to help his Honda engine harvest power
"Oh my gosh, really?" comes the reply.
I know Alonso is fed up with how things have gone, but come on lad. It can't be that bad out there.
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Bottas' tyres goingpublished at 10:24 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
Bottas has put the Mercedes into P3, five tenths off Hamilton, but has quickly come on the radio to tell his team his ultra-soft tyres are going off.
Image source, Getty ImagesHamilton back up to P1published at 10:22 British Summer Time 15 September 2017
The ultra-softs are doing their thing for the Mercedes cars.
Hamilton is back on top with a 1:42.904.
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Jennie Gow
BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporterHere the humidity is high, cooling is one of the key things and I know Mercedes have made some tweaks to cooling and Williams have also got some clever solutions this weekend.
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