How Friday practice for the F1 Abu Dhabi GP unfolded

Into the final five minutes 

"Derates are massive at the moment."

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Into the final 15 minutes so teams are completing their race simulations.

Verstappen, Russell, Leclerc, Hamilton, Perez, Sainz, Ocon, Alonso, Ricciardo and Bottas.

Verstappen finds more time on his latest lap to extend his advantage to 0.3s over Russell.

Alonso's first soft time of the session puts him seventh, level on pace with Ocon.

After a poor final sector, Hamilton only manages fourth. 

Russell goes second, 0.1s off Verstappen's top time.

Hamilton goes quickest in sector one.

Need to see what the two Mercs can do on the softs now.

Verstappen, Leclerc, Perez, Ocon, Sainz, Bottas, Russell, Hamilton, Tsunoda and Albon.

Bottas slots into third, 0.9s off Verstappen.

"My brake pedal is very bad."

Russell moves up to third for Mercedes, 0.8s off.

Verstappen makes the most of his new soft tyres to go quickest with a 1m25.449s, 0.5s ahead of Leclerc. 

Hamilton is blocked by the Haas of Magnussen on his first timed lap of the day.

Verstappen slots into third on the mediums, 0.3s off Leclerc.

Leclerc, Ocon, Russell, Sainz, Verstappen, Perez, Gasly, Magnussen, Vettel and Alonso.

Vettel moves up to ninth, 1.6s off Leclerc.

Russell's first time of the day puts him third overall, 0.8s off Leclerc's impressive early benchmark.