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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test two day four

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With the first hour completed, here’s the latest lap count:

Grosjean, 26
Bottas, 24
Kvyat, 18
Ricciardo, 17
Sainz, 17
Raikkonen, 16
Perez, 14
Kubica, 13
Vettel, 12
Verstappen, 6
Perez is on the C2s, while Verstappen pits again.
Vettel completes a cool down lap and then goes for a personal best in the first sector.
Sainz is back in after improving the fastest time on his last lap.
Verstappen jumps to sixth with a 1m19.119s lap, while Ricciardo also does better with a 1m19.317s.
Vettel jumps to third from eighth on his first C3 lap, setting a 1m18.762s.
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Sainz improves again, it's a 1m17.495s.
Ricciardo is on the C3s this time.
Sainz is fastest of all in the first sector.
Vettel is on the C3 for Ferrari now as he completes his outlap.

Sainz is on the same compound.
Ricciardo is back out for Renault too.
We're beginning to think Bottas loves practice starts, he's doing another.
Verstappen finally gets a time on the board, jumping to seventh with a 1m19.554s lap.
Grosjean now comes in, we make that roughly an 11-lap stint. Looked a decent showing on the the unmarked C3 tyre.
Bottas is completing another practice start.
Grosjean's very consistent here, that's another 1m21.1s lap this time around.
Verstappen is back out again now, and is on the C3s.
Kvyat climbs to sixth courtesy of his 1m19.381s lap.
Grosjean is consistently lapping in the high 1m20s, low 1m21s on this long run.
Just Grosjean and Kvyat currently on track, the Toro Rosso is on the C3s.

But Bottas is heading out again on C2s.
You'll be shocked to hear that Kubica has done one lap and then come back into the pits.

Raikkonen also follows him in and he returns to the garage.
Kvyat is heading out again.
It's a 1m20.652s for Grosjean this time around.
Raikkonen also returns to the pits, but only so he can do a practice start before heading back out.
No threat to the top time currently, Grosjean is lapping in 1m21s, as is Raikkonen.
Kubica is quickly back out again as Sainz comes in to the garage.
Kubica had set a personal best in the first sector, but once again he returns to the pits.
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And so he is, Sainz improves our top time to a 1m17.851s.
Grosjean does improve this time around and sets a 1m18.180s, but Sainz looks to be going even quicker.

Kubica passes the line on a set of C4s.
Verstappen has yet to do a second lap in the Red Bull.
Kubica has returned to the track.
The track looks to be warming up, which will help laptimes, but we're also into the 1m17s quicker than we have been seeing through this week of testing.
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Sainz goes quickest on the C3 now, i's a 1m17.955s.
Perez comes back in after that short run.
Very close to a new fastest time from Grosjean, but the final sector lets him down.

It's a 1m18.762s, a time that is still quicker than Sainz's second-placed time.
Ricciardo heads back in to the garage.
Raikkonen's latest run is on the C5.
Grosjean sets a personal best in the first sector.
Perez falls almost two tenths off an improvement as he crosses the line.

By: Geoff Creighton

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