Barcelona F1 test day one
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Verstappen leaves the Red Bull box beneath us.
Bottas puts Mercedes back ahead of Alfa with a 1m20.631s.
Two personal bests for Bottas on his current run.
Russell's outing is shortlived - he's back in for Williams.
But nobody is going exceptionally quickly right now.
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And Russell has returned as well.
Session leader Sainz has headed back out in the McLaren.
Bottas sets a personal best in the second and third sectors, but remains eight h for Mercedes.
Kubica improves Alfa's position to seventh on a 1m21.280s.
He's 1.2s off in the first sector compared to Sainz's best.
Bottas starts a flying lap in the C2s.
Russell pits the Williams.
Bottas has just returned to the track in the Mercedes W11.
Kubica has moved up to eighth place, and is five seconds off the pace after the C39s second timed lap. Still no timed lap from Russell, while Kvyat remains over half a minute down after some nominal running.
Perez edges closer to the lead again, recording a 1m18.898s, as Magnussen improves marginally but stays sixth.
A minor improvement from Perez, still on C3s, takes him to within seven tenths of Sainz.
Magnussen has slotted into sixth place on C3s, 2.5s off the pace. We've now had eight teams record a lap time, although Kvyat's 1m53s effort shouldn't really count.
A 1m19.618s from Ocon in the all-black Renault takes him to third place behind Sainz and Perez. That'd be a very cool front of the grid for the Australian GP, no? Oh well.
Bottas is one of three drivers with 15 or more laps on the board so far
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An otherwise unremarkable 1m28.321s from Ocon on C2s makes it six lap times on the board.
Live timing tells us Sainz is stopped in the second sector, but he emphatically is not, as he's just come into the pits - unless there's a rogue decoy McLaren running around.
It's been a busy start for last year's top four in the constructors' standings, as Sainz, Leclerc, Verstappen and Bottas all get over the 10-lap mark just half an hour in. Encouragingly, Williams looks set to be the fifth team to do so.
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Sainz fires in 1m18.479s and 1m18.423s back-to-back, extending his lead at the top of the timing screens. Perez in the Racing Point - on C4s compared to Sainz's C3s - is now up to second, nine tenths off.
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Ocon's laps earlier are our first good look at the new Renault RS20, which has been circulating in an outrageously gorgeous all-black testing-only livery. 
Another improvement from Leclerc, who came up on Sainz in the final sector and comes over the line 0.712s slower.
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Sainz improves to a 1m18.974s, while Leclerc moves up to second on a 1m20.012s.
Make that second place for Verstappen, and third place for a returning Leclerc, although both remain a second off Sainz's efforts.
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Wondering how we could tell the wheels and nosecone were off the Ferrari? That's in part thanks to a new rule introduced for this year, which prevents teams from hiding their cars behind pesky garage screens. 
Verstappen makes it four drivers with times on the board, a 1m23.158s on the C2 tyre taking him to third in the leaderboard.
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Sainz goes top in the McLaren, posting a 1m19.873s in C3.
While we're waiting for track shots, you'll have to make do of this pic of the McLaren in the pits
The wheels and nosecone are now off the SF1000 in the Ferrari garage, so it might be a little while before we see Leclerc head out.
Russell has done another couple of laps with kiel probe arrays, and is back in again without recording a lap time.
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