Barcelona F1 test day one
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Kvyat improves to a 1m21.117s, but remains ninth for AlphaTauri.
Now we're well into the second hour on this opening morning, Russell is still the only driver yet to set a time.
Kvyat pops the AlphTauri up to seventh on a 1m20.376s on the C2s.
Leclerc pits the Ferrari.
Sainz's flow-viz is clashing horribly with the papaya orange on the McLaren - not that he'll care, of course.
Perez has returned to action in the Racing Point - our technical editor Jake Boxall-Legge is beavering away working on a feature explaining the team's new car.
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Perez pops into first place for Racing Point - he was quickest of all in the middle sector - with a 1m18.037s on the C2s.
A quick update on the lap counts - Verstappen leads the way on 34 for Red Bull
But Sainz is only just behind on 33 for McLaren.
Perez is on another flyer.
Perez set the fastest first sector of anyone, but slower final two thirds cost him and he doesn't improve.
Perez goes purples in sector one...
90 minutes down, no Alfa/Alpha confusion. Result.
But he's not so hot in the middle segment
And Perez again completes his lap without improving - we'll try and not get overexcited if this becomes a pattern.
Magnussen improves his personal best by a fraction but stays sixth for Haas.
It's all gone a bit quiet right now - just Perez and Magnussen are out on track.
But now Perez pits - so just the Haas is circulating.
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Here's the leaderboard after an hour and a half:
1 Perez 1m18.037s
2 Sainz +0.174s
3 Leclerc +0.357s
4 Verstappen +0.359s
5 Ocon +1.581s
6 Magnussen +1.838s
7 Kvyat +2.097s
8 Kubica +2.417s
9 Bottas +2.594s
Russell is still yet to set a time
1 Perez 1m18.037s
2 Sainz +0.174s
3 Leclerc +0.357s
4 Verstappen +0.359s
5 Ocon +1.581s
6 Magnussen +1.838s
7 Kvyat +2.097s
8 Kubica +2.417s
9 Bottas +2.594s
Russell is still yet to set a time
Russell appears to have taken a break from the cockpit - he's pictured putting his helmet back on in the Williams pits.
Ocon returns to the track for the first time this hour.
Magnussen sets a personal best sector one on the C3s.
And Magnussen sets another personal best in sector two.
And Magnussen completes the sweep to move up to fifth for Haas on a 1m19.433s on the C3s.
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Here's a lap count so far for you - strong start for Red Bull:
Verstappen 36
Sainz 34
Bottas 24
Leclerc 24
Russell 19
Kvyat 19
Perez 18
Magnussen 16
Ocon 15
Kubica 15
Verstappen 36
Sainz 34
Bottas 24
Leclerc 24
Russell 19
Kvyat 19
Perez 18
Magnussen 16
Ocon 15
Kubica 15
Ocon jumps up to fifth for Renault with a 1m18.614s on the C3s.
Ocon is on the move again - he sets two personal bests in the opening sectors.
And Ocon does improve his best time to a 1m18.491s, but he stays fifth.
Bottas could be about to improve - two personal best sectors so far.
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And Bottas goes fastest with a 1m17.833s on the C2s.
Replays show Bottas caught a big snap of oversteer as he completed his last lap, but that wasn't his fast run.
And Williams are on the board at last - Russell sets a 1m20.729s on a the C4 tyres.
Russell's time is 2.8s off Bottas's best, and puts Williams into P10, but he's done 22 laps so far.
Our F1 reporter Luke Smith reports (see what we did there?) Russell's 1m20.729s is faster than any time Williams set in the first test last year - where of course it missed the first two full days.
Russell's now done a 1m19.293s, which puts Williams in seventh place.
Luke now reports that Russell's improvement takes Williams to a time it didn't reach until the penultimate day of 2019 testing.
(This isn't Luke writing about himself, by the way, that would be weird)
Perez goes quickest in sector one for Racing Point.
But we've been burned before here...
Purple sector two for Perez.
By: Geoff Creighton
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