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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test day four

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Albon has set a session-best first sector time.
Hamilton pits, after at least seven laps on the C5 tyre. Sorry, we didn't catch the exact number.
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Tyres on track:

C3: Stroll, Giovinazzi, Gasly
C5: Hamilton
Gasly narrowly misses out on improving his time.
Gasly has a personal best first sector under his belt on his first flying lap on this set of tyres.
Gasly is back out for Red Bull. Attempting to add to its 35 laps.
Albon is unable to improve on his personal best after a mediocre last sector.
Leclerc has rejoined after a very brief visit to the pits.
Leclerc pits from another long run on the C3 tyre.

On track, Giovinazzi couldn't set a personal best on his first flying lap on this set of C3s, despite a personal best first sector.
Albon jumps from eighth to fourth on the C4 tyre, despite getting out of shape heading into the final turn. It's a 1m18.146s.
Albon has set a personal best first sector in the Toro Rosso, which is eighth overall at the moment.
Lots of Williams pictures to share this morning. Here's another - it's Kubica spinning exiting the final chicane

Lots of Williams pictures to share this morning. Here's another - it's Kubica spinning exiting the final chicane

Stroll and Giovinazzi must be doing very similar programmes today as they join the track together again.
Ricciardo pits after dropping Renault further into the 1m17s and reaffirming his spot at the top of the leaderboard.
Unlike Ricciardo, Hamilton is yet to do a proper flying lap on these C5 tyres.
Albon rejoins the track.
Leclerc, Hamilton and Ricciardo are the only drivers on track.

Leclerc is on C3s, Ricciardo and Hamilton on C5s.
Ricciardo's time at the top of the board is comfortably the best so far for Renault during this test - its first in the 1m17s. Grosjean's fifth-best time is also Haas's best effort of the test.
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Ricciardo sets the the best time of the session on his first flying lap on the C5 tyres, a 1m17.785s.
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Tyres on track:

C3: Gasly, Stroll, Leclerc
C5: Ricciardo, Hamilton
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Updated lap counts:

Grosjean - 54
Leclerc - 52
Giovinazzi - 37
Norris - 35
Gasly - 34
Kubica - 32
Ricciardo - 32
Hamilton - 32
Stroll - 29
Albon - 27
Kubica joined the circuit briefly but has pitted again.

Ricciardo is going quickly on the C5 tyre.
Gasly has returned to the track after that long run on the C3 tyre.
Gasly pits the Red Bull after an impressive long run.
Norris pits from a very short run on the C3.
Hamilton's Mercedes noses out of the garage on the C5 tyre, the softest Pirelli offering. He used the tyre earlier but didn't set a flying lap.
Giovinazzi has pitted.
Grosjean bounces back from being held up on the last lap to set a 1m18.841s in the Haas, and is fifth overall.
Leclerc set a personal best in the first sector last time around, but failed to improve in the final two sectors.

If there was any slight on Leclerc's performance last year, it was his ability to tie all three sectors over a lap together. The spotlight will be on that this year after his promotion to Ferrari.
Leclerc sets a 1m18.065s, which is good enough for third now.

Grosjean was on a decent lap but got held up in the final sector.
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On track: Giovinazzi, Gasly, Kubica, Stroll and Leclerc, all on C3 tyres.
Correction: Leclerc is on the C3 tyre.
That lock-up probably cost Kubica an improvement, he was fractionally off his best time.
Kubica had a lock-up at Turn 10.
Leclerc is on track on the C4 tyre.
KUBICA. It's a 1m21.706s for the Williams driver, its best of the test so far.

He did have a spin earlier in the session at the final chicane.
Kubica and Stroll set personal best first sectors.

By: Geoff Creighton

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