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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test day three

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Tyre choices out on track:

C2: Sainz
C3: Raikkonen, Kvyat,
D3: Ricciardo
George Russell brings the Williams out for a third time today. The car made its debut this afternoon.
Ricciardo pits, Grosjean heads out.
Grosjean is on the C3 tyre, as is Raikkonen. Sainz is on the C2, as is Russell.
Russell improves to a 1m31.441s on the C3 tyre.
And Russell improves again, for a 1m27.540s.
Raikkonen and Sainz pit, so that leaves Russell and Grosjean on track.
Russell improves again. It's a 1m26.417s this time. He's still a few seconds off the ballpark time of Williams's rivals.
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A massive moment for Russell as the rear of the Williams snaps lose at the exit of Turn 13. He was lucky there was runoff there. He's stayed out nonetheless.
Despite running wide and into the runoff, his time has still appeared on the screens and it's an improved 1m25.625s.
And Russell comes into the pits.
Grosjean (C3) and Verstappen (C3) are the only cars on track.
There's just over an hour to go in the session. Grosjean and Verstappen are not going for glory laps, and are a fair way off their personal bests respectively.
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No doubt we're pretty close to drivers wanting to do glory runs banging on a set of C4s or C5s to go for a blockbuster time.
Raikkonen appears to be sitting pretty at the top of the lap count leaderboard, but combined, Mercedes have completed 165 laps between Hamilton and Bottas over the course of the day.
Verstappen has been very consistent running 1m21s on the C3 tyre for Red Bull.
Grosjean on the other hand is up in the 1m25s on the same compound tyre as Verstappen.
Ricciardo is coming out for a run in his Renault. Still feels weird saying that.
Ricciardo appears to be on the D3 tyre, which is basically the same as the C3 but it's a Pirelli development tyre.
Ricciardo has set a personal best in the first sector straight away, and follows that up in the middle sector.
Ricciardo improves to a 1m19.498s, but doesn't move from ninth in the order.
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Huge moment in the lapping stakes, as Raikkonen moves clear.

Raikkonen - 138
Vettel - 134
Kvyat - 119
Bottas - 88
Sainz - 87
Verstappen - 86
Hamilton - 77
Perez - 67
Ricciardo - 63
Hulkenberg - 63
Fittipaldi - 48
Grosjean - 32
Russell - 11
Grosjean pits his Haas leaving Ricciard (C3) and Verstappen (C3) on track.
Ricciardo couldn't turn a personal best first sector into a better lap than his best so far.
A lock-up at Turn 10 won't have helped Verstappen's last lap. That cost him a few tenths but he's going through the motions, not attempting to beat his personal best so far.
Less than an hour to go in the session.
Grosjean is back out in the Haas.
Grosjean has switched to the white-walled C2 tyre.
Verstappen pits his Red Bull, which was wearing C3 boots. But then he rejoins and gets a practice start in.
Russell is back out in the Williams for his fifth run.
Russell's at least starting to explore the limits of the Williams a bit now. We've seen a few lock-ups from the car, most recently at Turn 1 and Turn 10. His last lap was a 1m26.8s and he's up to 15 for the day now.
We have some green on the timing screens courtesy of Russell in the Williams - two personal best sectors so far...
Two and a half tenths go begging in the final sector for Russell and he's fractionally short of his best time. He's improving again next time around though.
1m26.1s next time around the Russell, so half a second down on his best after starting that lap with another personal best sector time.

By: Geoff Creighton

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