Barcelona F1 test two day four
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Leclerc improves to a 1m20.090s, lifting himself up ahead of Ricciardo into 10th.
Grosjean is closing on the 150-lap mark on this run. We'll give you another lap count update at the top of the hour.
Sainz gains another place with a 1m19.345s, moving clear of Hamilton.
Sainz has set a new personal best on this supersoft run
Purple sector alert - Grosjean sets a new outright best final sector time. Although that may have just been cutting the chicane...
There we are, Sainz jumps to ninth on a 1m19.913s using supersofts.
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Sainz is back out and threatening a new personal best.
A very marginal improvement of 1m18.923s that time round for Bottas, who is on mediums.
Bottas bangs in a 1m18.941s to move up to third.
Alonso pits but heads back out, and now the 50-lap mark has been reached. Only Sauber (43) and Renault (8) are behind McLaren today.
Sainz has finally got some laps on the board this afternoon
Alonso meanwhile is edging towards the 50-lap mark on this run on softs.
Sainz pits, having doubled his lap count with that four-lap run.
A second quicker that time round. It's a 1m23.240s for the Spaniard.
Sainz opens his account with a rather pedestrian 1m24.413s on ultrasofts.
Sainz, meanwhile, has finally left the garage in the Renault.
Raikkonen hits 130 laps in the Ferrari. We saw him come in for a live pitstop a moment ago, so we deduce the Finn is mid-race run right now.
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Leclerc was on ultrasofts for that effort, incidentally the same tyre as Bottas right now.
There we go. Leclerc knocks exactly a tenth off his PB, very neat and tidy.
Alonso back out in the McLaren to add to his 34 lap tally, Leclerc meanwhile may be about to improve with the first green sector we've seen in some time...
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Two hours left of pre-season testing. Track temperatures have dropped off a little to 27C in the last hour or so, but air temperature is as high as it has been all winter - 19.3C.
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Here's a first shot of busy man Bottas in action this afternoon
Bottas is north of 50 laps in the Mercedes now, giving the Brackley squad a combined total of 148 - two behind Toro Rosso.
Stroll cuts the gap to Leclerc to 0.044s, but stays in 11th.
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Another improvement for Stroll, who remains half a second off Leclerc in 10th.
Next time round for Stroll is a 1m21.318s. He's on softs for this opening run by the way.
Stroll gets himself on the board with a 1m29.852s.
Stroll emerges for the first time today in the Williams.
Ocon makes it five drivers to hit a century now.
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Lap count update as Raikkonen becomes latest to reach 100 laps:
Hartley 133Sirotkin 105
Grosjean 105Raikkonen 100
Ocon 98Hamilton 97Ricciardo 68Bottas 43Alonso 31
Leclerc 27Sainz 4
Hartley 133Sirotkin 105
Grosjean 105Raikkonen 100
Ocon 98Hamilton 97Ricciardo 68Bottas 43Alonso 31
Leclerc 27Sainz 4
We weren't sure at first, either, but here's Lewis Hamilton leaving the circuit after completing his final laps of testing earlier today
Leclerc sets a new personal best of 1m20.479s.
Hartley is one of a handful of drivers to have racked up more than 100 laps today
Grosjean becomes the latest member of the 100-lap club. We'll bring you a full run-down shortly.
By: Geoff Creighton
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