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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test day three

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Here’s the latest lap count with under 30 minutes of the morning session remaining:

Bottas 73
Vettel 70
Raikkonen 60
Hulkenberg 55
Fittipaldi 48
Kvyat 36
Perez 36
Verstappen 23
Sainz 19
Raikkonen (C4), Vettel (C3), Verstappen (C3) and Bottas (C2) are out on track. Bottas has the most number of laps on 73, and looks set to complete the most laps of a morning session so far at this year's test.
Raikkonen's second time on the C4 tyre showed the drop-off in that tyre compared to Vettel's C3. Vettel lost a tenth on his second lap, whereas Raikkonen lost 1.4s. Thanks for pointing that out, Glenn Freeman. And sorry for originally misquoting you.
Sainz pits after failing to improve his best on the C3 tyre.
Verstappen has also improved there, taking fourth with a 1m18.899s. He's on the C3 tyre.
Perez has pitted.
BOOM! Raikkonen uses the C4 tyres to set a brilliant 1m17.762s.

Vettel also improved, but could only manage a 1m18.350s on the C3 tyre.
Raikkonen has set the best first sector of all in the first.
Raikkonen is on the C4 while Vettel is on the C2. Both have just done outlaps.
Fittipaldi failed to improve after a personal best first sector on the C4 tyre.
Sainz has used his C3 tyres well, and jumped Kvyat in the order with a 1m19.453s, which puts him fifth.
Vettel and Raikkonen – one and two in the fastest times set today – return to the track.
Sainz and Fittipaldi have both improved in the first sector.
On track we have Bottas (C2), Perez (C2) and Sainz (C3).
Bottas is also back out on track.
Sainz pitted, but has quickly returned to the track.
Kvyat has improved to a 1m19.507s, which jumps him into sixth ahead of Sainz. We have a midfield battle, people.

Did someone say Class B battle?
Perez joins the track in what has been a more productive morning for Racing Point. It could complete the most laps of the test so far today for the team.
Fittipaldi instantly improves on those silky C4s. That's a 1m19.249s and leaps him back ahead of Kvyat and ahead of Sainz. The Haas driver moves up into fourth.

Earlier, he stopped on track. We'll confirm the reason for it when we have it.
Fittipaldi is out and on the C4 tyre for the first time, the second softest of the Pirelli range.
Kvyat improves on the C3 tyre, that's a 1m19.565s and he leaps ahead of Fittipaldi and into fifth in the order.
While Vettel is sat in the pits, Bottas is just a couple of laps away from taking the coveted 'most laps completed in the session' award. It's the F1 prize all the teams and drivers want to win.
Bottas and Raikkonen are on track, now joined by Kvyat.
Kvyat is out. Will this be his 1000th 'go out, do two laps and pit' of the day?
That time by Raikkonen is the fastest time set by a car that isn't the Ferrari!

Is that ironic? The ex-Ferrari man is fastest of the non-Ferrari drivers.
Raikkonen has set a 1m18.506s, which puts him second fastest overall. That's just over a tenth slower than Vettel at the top of the charts.
Raikkonen has a set of C4 tyres on his Saub...Alfa Romeo. That's the second softest tyre available, softer than the C3 that Vettel used to set the best time so far, so this should be quick.
Into the pits is Vettel in the Ferrari. Go on, bolt on a set of C4 tyres. We want to see a 1m17s lap...
With less than an hour of this morning’s running remaining, here’s the latest lap count:

Vettel 62
Bottas 53
Hulkenberg 49
Raikkonen 48
Fittipaldi 41
Kvyat 31
Perez 30
Verstappen 18
Sainz 14
Bottas and Hulkenberg are both lapping in the mid-1m25s, so there's no challenge to the times on the screen at the moment.
Only Hulkenberg, Vettel and Bottas are on track now. Bottas is on C2s and the rest are on C3s.
Vettel is back out on track.
Some part of the McLaren's bodywork has just flown off on the main straight. It was something from the left-hand side, behind the front-left wheel.
Raikkonen has pitted leaving Vettel, Hulkenberg, Sainz and Bottas on track.
The 1m19.540s lap from Raikkonen last time around was the best of that tour.
And it looks like Sainz is coming straight back out again.

By: Geoff Creighton

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