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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test two day four

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Raikkonen comes in, but heads to the pit exit for a practice start.
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Grosjean improves his best time to a 1m18.639s.
Bottas heads back out on the C3s, while Perez is on the C2s.
Kvyat uses the C4 to go into fifth with a time of 1m20.980s.

That's 0.080s slower than Raikkonen.
Raikkonen goes around in 1m29.990s, and has been lapping within a second of his best.
Vettel's now in the 1m21s range on his latest effort.
Vettel lapped around a second off his best last time around, while Grosjean completes a cool down lap.

Kvyat is on his first flying lap.
Ricciardo pits and returns to the garage.
Kvyat is back out for Toro Rosso.
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Grosjean goes fastest with a time of 1m19.069s.
Raikkonen improves to 1m20.003s but stays third.
Grosjean is fastest of all in the first two sectors.
Vettel's back into second now with a lap of 1m19.775s.
Grosjean's third with a time of 1m21.011s.

Ricciardo's on the C5s now.
Vettel improves on his time, making it 1m20.131s but remaining third as Raikkonen just nipped ahead with a 1m20.023s in the Alfa.
Grosjean's on the C3 as he completes his outlap.
Vettel goes second with a 1m20.889s lap.
But Kubica returns to the track straight away.
Grosjean heads out in the Haas, hoping to get much more running than yesterday after the exhuast issue that kept him in the garage for most of the afternoon.

Kubica pits again after one lap.
Vettel is on the C3 and is sparking nicely as he crosses the start/finish line.

Raikkonen is on the C5.
Kubica is on the C4 as he completes his outlap.
Sainz has a slower second and third sector, so no improvement for now.

Meanwhile, Bottas pits and returns to the garage. Vettel is back out for Ferrari.
Kubica is back out again for Williams.
Sainz is quickest of all in the first sector on the following lap, so may well improve again.
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Sainz's first timed lap is a 1m19.216s and sends him top.
Bottas in again but it's off for another practice start. Sainz completes his outlap on the C5s.
And Sainz follows his lead before heading out on track.
But Bottas heads straight back out again after completing a practice start.
And as we say that, he pits.
Bottas is now the only man on track, no-one else has completed more than one lap.

The Mercedes man has already ticked past five.
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Bottas improves again for a third lap in a row, the time to beat is now 1m21.023s.
Perez is back in after that one lap, he used the C5s to complete it.
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Bottas improves his own time to make it 1m21.216s.
Perez goes out for Racing Point.
Kvyat had used the C5s for his first lap.
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Bottas gives the first benchmark of the day with a 1m22.164s.
Ricciardo is back, having used a set of C3s for that exploratory lap.
Kvyat heads out.
Haas again did its first lap on inters, while Raikkonen's run was on C3s.
Raikkonen heads back in after his installation lap, as does Grosjean. Vettel used the unmarked tyre on his one lap.

By: Geoff Creighton

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