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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test two day three

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The skies have become incredibly grey here - and linger heavily as if pondering a barrage of rain about the circuit. So far, they've managed to hold off from doing so.
Kvyat dives into the pitlane as Verstappen heads out for some on-track action.
Ocon's doing a series of personal-best laps, smashing in a 1m16.433s.
Perez has now finished his race run, and has fallen back into the pits. He did 61 laps - just five short of the actual race distance.
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Bottas finds a couple of tenths on this tour and produces a 1m16.637s to move up to fourth.
Bottas is continuing with the C4 programme for now. He's out on another fresh set.
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We're now firmly into hour three on the final day, and we've had some improvements. Here is the latest standings:

Ricciardo - 1m16.276s
Leclerc - 1m16.360s
Hamilton - 1m16.410s
Perez - 1m16.658s
Verstappen - 1m16.805s
Sainz - 1m16.820s
Russell - 1m16.871s
Bottas - 1m16.873s
Kvyat - 1m16.914s
Grosjean - 1m17.037s
Ocon - 1m17.188s
Raikkonen - 1m17.415s
Albon - 1m17.803s
Magnussen - 1m18.460s
Verstappen up to fifth with a 1m16.805s on C2s with just under two hours to go.
Bottas dips underneath the 1m17s bracket for the first time with a 1m16.873s on C4s, which lifts him to seventh on the timsheets.
Bottas has a set of fresh C4s fitted to his Mercedes. Hopefully he winds up the W11 for a time attack.
Leclerc's race run has come to an end. He completed a Spanish Grand Prix distance of 66 laps, all on the C2 tyres.
Bottas bails back into pitlane.
Ocon improves to 10th with a 1m17.188s, while Bottas heads out on C4s.
Bottas now fires in a personal best in the Mercedes with a 1m17.121s on C3s.
Verstappen jumps up to 10th on C2s with a 1m17.340s. Only 11 laps for the Red Bull driver so far today.
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This is the lap count per driver with just over two and a half hours to go:

Leclerc - 128
Kvyat - 122
Sainz - 109
Raikkonen - 107
Hamilton - 90
Perez - 86
Grosjean - 86
Russell - 80
Ricciardo - 65
Albon - 59
Ocon - 32
Bottas - 24
Magnussen - 16
Verstappen - 8
Ocon is also on the C3s and has put in a 1m17.505s to move into 11th.
Bottas is cracking on with the C3s and has moved up to ninth with a 1m17.414s.
Sainz has had a fresh set of C2s fitted to his McLaren.
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With hour two underway, the standings are as follows:

Ricciardo - 1m16.276s
Leclerc - 1m16.360s
Hamilton - 1m16.410s
Perez - 1m16.658s
Sainz - 1m16.820
Russell - 1m16.871s
Kvyat - 1m16.914s
Grosjean - 1m17.037s
Raikkonen - 1m17.415s
Bottas - 1m17.438s
Ocon - 1m17.752s
Albon - 1m17.803s
Verstappen - 1m18.261s
Magnussen - 1m18.460s
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Here are the current lap totals with an hour of the afternoon session gone:

Leclerc 109
Kvyat 103
Sainz 91
Hamilton 90
Raikkonen 89
Grosjean 86
Perez 69
Ricciardo 65
Albon 59
Russell 74
Ocon 24
Magnussen 15
Bottas 12
Verstappen 8
Bottas makes another gain on this second C3 run. He's 10th with a 1m17.438s.
Verstappen's first effort is a 1m18.261s, which puts him 1.985s off the pace in 13th.
Verstappen is on a flying lap.
Bottas is back out on a fresh set of C3s.
Bottas returns to his garage, while Verstappen went out for an install lap and has also come back into pitlane.
Russell is on a long run on the C2 tyres presently. His car is fitted with the old engine cover design - featuring full shark fin - and the old rear wing spec. Williams debuted a new design this morning, but hasn't done much running with it.

Our own Technical Editor Jake Boxall-Legge believes the newer design will help it at places like Baku and Canada.
Leclerc comes in for a set of scrubbed C2s.
Bottas finds some more time on his second flying lap and improves to a 1m17.790s. Moves up a spot to 11th ahead of Albon. No time from Verstappen yet.
For those of you who have only joined us this afternoon, we've been having a little bit of fun coming up with F1 driver-themed names for football clubs. Here's a few we've been sent on Twitter at #autosportnames - @ReeveSf90 has been pretty prolific and has given us GIOventus and AS Romain, and there's FC BarSalona from @Casey_Jennett_1. We also quite like the very throwback-y Fort Laudadale Strikers from @PeetersJM.
Bottas goes up to 12th with an opening effort of 1m18.201s.
Bottas has headed out in the Mercedes on C3 rubber. That's the tyre Hamilton did a lot of his long run work on this morning.
Sainz took the MotoGP way through the last corner and has bailed into pitlane.

By: Geoff Creighton

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