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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test day two

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Replays show Leclerc catching a big rear slide heading through Turn 13 - where Verstappen spun twice yesterday - and he had to take to the runoff before carrying on his way.
Fans of the old Jordan team will be delighted to see its current guise, Racing Point, at the sharp end of the times this morning. On this day back in 1999, a future Jordan driver would top the times in Barcelona driving a Prost which proved to be desperately uncompetitive, although he would manage to score a podium at the Nurburgring. Brownie points if you can recognise the helmet.

Fans of the old Jordan team will be delighted to see its current guise, Racing Point, at the sharp end of the times this morning. On this day back in 1999, a future Jordan driver would top the times in Barcelona driving a Prost which proved to be desperately uncompetitive, although he would manage to score a podium at the Nurburgring. Brownie points if you can recognise the helmet.

Gasly brings the AlphaTauri in for a quick trundle through the pits before heading out again.
Leclerc has taken the Ferrari out to stretch its legs before the break.
Raikkonen slowed down in the final sector, so stays ninth for Alfa.
Raikkonen is on a hot lap just before the lunch break - he's set a personal best in sector one.
Unsurprisingly, given they're the top two in the times, Perez and Ricciardo own the best sectors - Perez is fastest in S1 and S2, while Ricciardo had the edge in the final segment.
Incidentally, still no red flags have disrupted the running so far.
Under 20 minutes to go in the morning session here at Barcelona - which means we're nearly at the halfway point through the first test.
Without too much action to go on, let's have a look back at some classic testing liveries. Here's McLaren's papaya MP4/12 from 1997.

Without too much action to go on, let's have a look back at some classic testing liveries. Here's McLaren's papaya MP4/12 from 1997.

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And a lap count for the morning:
Hamilton 106
Grosjean 75
Gasly 62
Albon 59
Russell 58
Raikkonen 56
Norris 45
Perez 48
Leclerc 41
Ricciardo 41
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Here's a final pre-lunch timing rundown:

1 Perez 1m17.347s
2 Ricciardo +0.402s
3 Albon +0.808s
4 Gasly +0.818s
5 Russell +0.919s
6 Leclerc +0.988s
7 Hamilton +1.040s
8 Grosjean +1.149s
9 Raikkonen +1.178s
10 Norris +1.190s
Hamilton passed the 100-mark earlier on, he's now up to 102 laps. Grosjean has 75, Gasly has 62. Leclerc has the fewest with 41 laps.
Ton up for Hamilton, who hits 100 laps with just over half an hour of the morning session still to run. Impressive.

Ton up for Hamilton, who hits 100 laps with just over half an hour of the morning session still to run. Impressive.

And we spoke too soon, as Raikkonen went slower in the final sector and left the scoreboard unperturbed. It's as you were.
Raikkonen's personal-bested his first sector, which will hopefully generate some excitement...
We're approaching the final half-hour of this morning's running - it's not exactly been a vintage session, this, sort of the testing equivalent of the final half of an FP2 session.
Hamilton is already up to 91 laps - it'd be no surprise if he broke the 100-lap barrier before lunch.
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Here's the leaderboard as things stand:

1 Perez 1m17.347s
2 Ricciardo +0.402s
3 Albon +0.808s
4 Gasly +0.818s
5 Russell +0.919s
6 Leclerc +0.988s
7 Hamilton +1.040s
8 Grosjean +1.149s
9 Raikkonen +1.178s
10 Norris +1.190s
There's a wee splodge of flow-viz on Russell's bargeboards as Williams conducts a little bit of further aero work.
Norris recently did his fastest time of the afternoon - he remains P10 but gets within 0.012 of Raikkonen.
Ricciardo is finally back on track after plenty of time spent sitting in the garage. He's now on 19 laps for the day.
Not much has happened in the past 10 minutes, but the media centre is beset by intrigue into Mercedes' steering secrets - more on that in a bit.
Perez looked on to better his table-topping time from earlier, but he backed out in the final sector. So that's an anti-climax, isn't it?
Another strong morning from the pink bullet, Perez still the man on top of the pile on a 1m17.347s.

Another strong morning from the pink bullet, Perez still the man on top of the pile on a 1m17.347s.

Renault is being a bit naughty in the pitlane - no screens or doors are allowed for this year, but that's not stopped it from battening down the hatches.
Just the Brits out on track at the moment - Hamilton, Russell and Norris are getting the laps in as we enter the final 100 minutes of the morning's testing.
Norris is chugging around the circuit on the C1 tyres, doing fast-slow runs on the hardest compound available.
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As it stands, Hamilton sits on 53 laps, as Grosjean breaks the 50-mark too. Ricciardo, meanwhile, has only done 17 laps, while Albon has recovered from his earlier seat discomfort and logged 42 tours of the circuit.
Hamilton's on a long run with C2s, lapping consistently in the 1m22s. It seems he's on a high-fuel run at the current time...
Grosjean's just posted his fastest lap of the the day, rising to P7 on the leaderboard.
All eyes in the media centre are glued to the onboards from Lewis Hamilton' Mercedes W11, whose steering wheel was spotted pulling backwards coming onto the straight on previous runs (though not now). We'll have more on that in due time.

By: Geoff Creighton

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