Barcelona F1 test two day four
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Grosjean has taken the Haas back down to the end of the pitlane and does the latest practice start.
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Verstappen is back in the garage after adding one more lap to that run in the Red Bull.
Ricciardo has headed back out in the Renault to make it three cars out on track. Party on.
Decent haul of laps already for Verstappen on this run. He's up to 13 on the mid-range C3.
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And then Bottas comes in to make it even quieter.
It's quieter track with just Bottas, Verstappen and Vettel circulating.
Vettel uses the C3s to go to eighth with a 1m18.435s lap.
It's now a 1m19.786s, just over a second slower than Vettel in 11th.
Kubica is improving again.
Vettel returns to the track.
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Decent improvement from Kubica to set a 1m19.842s.
He's still in 10th but it was a 0.168s gain on that lap.
He's still in 10th but it was a 0.168s gain on that lap.
Bottas just misses out on the top spot, by 0.047s, and sets a 1m16.960s that keeps him comfortably second.
That was Mercedes' first sub 1m17s lap of testing.
That was Mercedes' first sub 1m17s lap of testing.
Kubica is on the C4 tyre.
Bottas sets a personal best in the first sector.
Kubica is back out on track again for Williams.
And Sainz was definitely on the C5s, we should have trusted our snap judgement.
Bottas is heading out on C4s though, we got a good view of that set as he left the pits.
Sainz may actually be on the C4s, even this late in testing its tricky to tell the compounds apart.
Verstappen's missed out on an improvement by three tenths this time around.
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Puff of smoke from Ricciardo's Renault as it bottoms out into Turn 4.
Ricciardo leaps to fifth with a 1m17.772s lap.
We're seeing a fair bit of performance short runs this morning.
We're seeing a fair bit of performance short runs this morning.
And its Raikkonen's turn to go faster, setting a 1m18.255s now.
Ricciardo went against the grain of yesterday's afternoon running by using the softer tyres, so it'll be interesting to see if Renault's progressed its understanding of those compounds.
Sainz is back out on the C5s. Another McLaren performance run?
Ricciardo is driving on a set of C4s.
Ricciardo is driving on a set of C4s.
Raikkonen is on the C3s and Vettel pits again, and the garage is awaiting his Ferrari this time.
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Verstappen's first flying lap is a good one, so climbs to fourth with a 1m17.709s.
Perez jumps to fourth with a 1m18.430s lap.
Perez is going quicker again.
Vettel pits but purely to do a practice start.
Verstappen is back out on the shiny C3s, Red Bull's discovered its love of that compound once again after dabbling in red-walled tyres yesterday.
Perez uses the C3s to improve his time to 1m18.528s but stays fifth.
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Here’s the latest lap count:
Sainz, 23
Bottas, 29
Grosjean, 32
Kvyat, 23
Vettel, 24
Perez, 21
Raikkonen, 21
Verstappen, 15
Ricciardo, 24
Kubica, 20
Sainz, 23
Bottas, 29
Grosjean, 32
Kvyat, 23
Vettel, 24
Perez, 21
Raikkonen, 21
Verstappen, 15
Ricciardo, 24
Kubica, 20
Perez sets a personal best second sector.
Sainz pits after setting the fastest time.
Kvyat is back in for Toro Rosso.
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