Barcelona F1 test two day one
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Gasly and Magnussen in the pitlane.
More improvements. Sirotkin now on a 1m22.234s and Ericsson ahead of Vandoorne AND Perez to get up to seventh.
Magnussen up to fourth, ahead of Verstappen, on a 1m21.298s.
Perez and Vettel head out. Gasly wheelspins his way down the pitlane and back out again. Six cars on track.
Ericsson can't quite dislodge Vandoorne from eighth. His 1m24.905s is a little short.
Sirotkin fails to do a middle sector according to the timing screen but improves nonetheless, to a 1m22.643s.
Ericsson down to a 1m25.600s. He's within a second of Vandoorne now.
Lovely set of personal best sectors from Magnussen means he improves to a 1m21.427s and becomes the latest driver to get within a second of Bottas.
Sirotkin improves to a 1m23.002s. That gets him ahead of Perez.
Magnussen, on soft tyres now, falls a tenth short of a new personal best.
Mercedes has been the busiest team this morning.
Ericsson improves on lap 17 to a 1m26.919s.
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Pretty easy to spot who has had a good morning and who has been less productive:
Bottas 50
Verstappen 41
Vettel 28
Gasly 21
Magnussen 18
Ericsson 16
Perez 15
Sirotkin 11
Hulkenberg 5
Vandoorne 4
Bottas 50
Verstappen 41
Vettel 28
Gasly 21
Magnussen 18
Ericsson 16
Perez 15
Sirotkin 11
Hulkenberg 5
Vandoorne 4
We have four men on track at the moment: Gasly, Magnussen, Sirotkin and Ericsson. Time for a lap count update we reckon.
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Sirotkin heads out for the first time in quite a while. The Williams driver has just nine laps to his name. Only Vandoorne (who stopped) and Hulkenberg (who is slowest without a proper time) have completed less.
Bottas now in – Mercedes ticks over to 50 laps completed and the W09 returns to the garage properly this time.
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Gasly's on soft tyres but his last lap wasn't very quick. A push lap coming? We hope so.
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Ericsson 7.4s off the pace now as he lowers his best to 1m28.012s.
Gasly's out in the Toro Rosso again, looking to build on a strong run to third-quickest not so long ago.
Bottas celebrates the end of the second hour by coming into the pits for the now-compulsory burnout run through to the other side. And with that, he moves onto his 50th lap of the morning already.
Ericsson improves again and gets ahead of Hulkenberg on a 1m30.712s.
Vettel and Verstappen back into the pits. Verstappen's pace on ultrasofts had faded towards the end of that stint.
Ericsson doesn't quite lift himself off the bottom with his latest improvement, a 1m32.471s.
Ericsson, meanwhile, uses medium tyres to improve to a 1m36.017s. He's just 15.4s off the pace now, 4.4s behind Hulkenberg.
Vettel's running pretty slowly on softs at the moment. On the same tyres, Bottas slips into the 1m22s.
Bottas posts a 1m21.7s so his pace seems to be dropping now.
Perez is back in after an outlap on supersofts.
Ericsson's on track in the Sauber, and Perez is also out in the Force India.
A 1m21.0s next time for Bottas. That's the first 'significant' pace dip and it's only to the tune of three tenths.
Bottas improves, so let's have another picture of the Mercedes. (Sutton Images)
Vettel into the pitlane in the Ferrari, but straight back out the other side.
Bottas through again in 1m20.7s. Good run on soft tyres, this.
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Vettel posted the best final sector on his last lap, but was 0.07s shy of improving overall.
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Bottas doesn't improve in any of three sectors, but they are still good enough as a collective to make a new benchmark: 1m20.596s.
But he's still not quite as quick as before. Within 0.2s. Vettel has a slow lap – maybe he's getting ready for another push.
Fastest middle sector of the morning so far from Bottas.
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