Barcelona F1 test day two
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Leclerc slots into second place, 1.2s off Hamilton's effort.
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Three purple sectors from Hamilton now, combining for a 1m18.915s.
Hamilton's back on track on C2s, and does two purple sectors, but his first sector is messy and leaves him short of improving overall.
Better from Grosjean the second time around - he comes within 0.045s of Hamilton, before locking the front right tyre hard entering Turn 1 the following lap and missing the corner.
Grosjean logs his first flying lap of the pre-season, 3.3s off Hamilton's pace. Much of that will have been in a fairly major lock-up at Turn 10.
No sign of the Renault on track yet, but the team says that there has been no issue and that Ricciardo should be heading out shortly.
Russell, Gasly and Hamilton have all hit doule-digit lap tallies in the first half hour, but only Hamilton has got anywhere near representative pace - with the other two currently limited to aero testing at fairly low speeds.
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Post-spin, Gasly has improved to a 1m29.919s, which is still some nine seconds off the pace.
Leclerc spends a couple of laps out of the pits weaving to warm the tyres, and then comes back in, leaving the track all to Perez's Racing Point.
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Hamilton concludes a run that included four 1m21s and one 1m20s by coming into the pits to do a practice start on pit exit.
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Hamilton improves to a 1m20.933s.
Hamilton posts a 1m21.574s, before going two tenths slower on the next lap. He looks to be settling into a race run.
The folks in charge of the TV feed rub salt on the wound by replaying Gasly's pre-season crash in the Red Bull at the very same Turn 9 from last year.
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The fastest time is now down to 1m21.978s from Hamilton, who is on the C3 tyre.
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Gasly, likewise running kiel probe arrays, has spun at relatively low speed at Turn 9. He's now back facing the right way and continues on into the pits.
Albon is turning his first lap in the RB16 now, with kiel probe arrays mounted behind his front wheels.
Gasly has the first time of the day on the board, but it's a completely irrelevant 1m37.755s. Hamilton's subsequent 1m30.978s is also of no particular interest.
Gasly hits the track for the first time in pre-season testing in the new AlphaTauri. Grosjean, Perez, Leclerc and Hamilton have now also emerged.
Norris kicks things off in the McLaren MCL35, followed by Russell.
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The second day of testing is now underway. Four-hour morning session up first.
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And here's Haas team boss Gunther Steiner getting stuck in, in retaliation for Racing Point's previous criticism of his own team's Ferrari-inspired designs: 
With not all that much to be conclusively drawn from the first day of testing, the big talking point instead has been the new Racing Point, and how it's a lot like the old Mercedes.
Here's Racing Point tech chief Andy Green on why the RP20 is what it is:
Here's Racing Point tech chief Andy Green on why the RP20 is what it is:
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Your drivers for day two of the test are:
Mercedes - Hamilton (AM), Bottas (PM)
Ferrari - Leclerc (AM), Vettel (PM)
Red Bull - Albon
McLaren - Norris
Renault - Ricciardo (AM), Ocon (PM)
AlphaTauri - Gasly
Racing Point - Perez
Alfa Romeo - Raikkonen
Haas - Grosjean
Williams - Russell
Mercedes - Hamilton (AM), Bottas (PM)
Ferrari - Leclerc (AM), Vettel (PM)
Red Bull - Albon
McLaren - Norris
Renault - Ricciardo (AM), Ocon (PM)
AlphaTauri - Gasly
Racing Point - Perez
Alfa Romeo - Raikkonen
Haas - Grosjean
Williams - Russell
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On the first day, Mercedes looked imperious, Red Bull quietly impressed and Ferrari kept its cards close to its chest, while every team got over the 100-lap mark. But will today prove similarly smooth for the F1 class of 2020?
Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of the 2020 Formula 1 pre-season testing at Barcelona, where track action is set to resume in around 25 minutes.
By: Geoff Creighton
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