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Barcelona F1 test two day one

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Summary

  • Norris on top, then causes a red flag
  • Bottas rejoins late after an engine change earlier in the afternoon
  • Williams, Renault clear100 laps, Haas leading mileage stakes
  • Giovinazzi fastest in morning session for Alfa

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Driver, Team, Time, Tyre
Gasly,Red Bull,1m17.715s,C3
Giovinazzi,Alfa Romeo,1m18.589s,C4
Stroll,Racing Point,1m17.824s, C4
Magnussen,Haas,1m18.769s,C4
Hamilton,Mercedes,1m20.332s,C2
Leclerc,Ferrari,1m18.651s,C3
Hulkenberg,Renault,1m20.348s,C3
Russell,Williams,1m19.662s,C5
Albon,Toro Rosso,1m18.649s,C4
Norris,McLaren,1m17.709s,C4
Vettel,Ferrari,1m17.925s,C3
Ricciardo, Renault,1m20.107s,C2
Bottas, Mercedes, 1m20.167s,C2
We've got a better view, and it was definitely the Alfa that stopped.
Looking up and down from our media centre window, we believe it's Giovinazzi who's stopped at the exit of pitlane, on the approach to Turn 1.
As the cars all register as in the pitlane, it's proving tricky to identify the stopped machine.
Final lap count for Tuesday.

Gasly - 136
Magnussen - 130
Russell - 119
Albon - 103
Giovinazzi - 99
Hamilton - 83
Stroll - 82
Vettel - 81
Hulkenberg - 80
Norris - 80
Ricciardo - 77
Leclerc - 29
Bottas - 7
A car appears to have stopped at the point in which the pitlane exit joins the track, but we're unsure which it is.
Into the final two minutes. Any late improvements to make Jack Cozens furious as he writes the report?
Bottas had not set a proper time prior to his problem, so this will get him on today's leaderboard. But where?
Bottas is heading out on the C2 tyre, the first time we've seen him since his stoppage earlier this afternoon.
Magnussen - now up to 123 laps and 10 behind Gasly's leading total - joins the other two on track.
We've got just under 15 minutes to go, so you'd say there's likely to be 10 mins of proper running for the teams.
The truck is now taking the unconventional line of driving Turns 2 and 1 in reverse to take Norris's McLaren back to the pitlane.

Bold move, let's see how it works out for him.
A quick move of the CCTV camera proves conclusively that Norris stopped just after Turn 2.
The McLaren is now on the back of the truck, so this session will almost certainly start again before the clock runs out of time.
It was a loss of hydraulic pressure that cost McLaren nearly two hours of running this morning.
Our pacesetter Norris is back out with just over 20 minutes of the session left to go.
Like fellow Canadians Rush in 1976, Stroll has entered the twilight zone

Like fellow Canadians Rush in 1976, Stroll has entered the twilight zone

Magnussen followed not long after and came close to beating his best time, lapping in 1m18.837s, falling short by 0.068 on the C4s.
All the drivers on track and have completed outlaps - Gasly, Ricciardo and Vettel - are lapping in the 1m21-22s range.
That's also Norris's fastest time of testing so far. His best over the four days last week was a 1m18.431s.
Norris continued the pattern of outlap/quick-lap/in-lap with that table-topping effort on the C5 tyre.

By: Geoff Creighton

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