Barcelona F1 test two day three
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Stroll's just posted a personal best in the first sector, wonder if he's about to have some fun.
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Hamilton pops up with a personal best 1m19.296s. That moves him above team-mate Bottas into eighth.
Stroll was hoping to get some running on some of the softer tyres this afternoon but with 50 laps on the board, no fast time, and lapping in the 1m26s we would suggest it's still longer runs on slower tyres – Williams can't be three seconds off the pace.
Ericsson back into the pits.
Ericsson is back out again after causing that red flag.
Gasly back into the pits, ditto Vandoorne. Verstappen heads back out in the Red Bull. He's going to keep a lap clear of Vettel in the 'busiest driver' table.
Gasly pops in a couple of personal bests in the first and second sectors but the lap falls away by 0.2s in the end in the final sector.
Yep, Pierre is on hypersofts. Nice and easy spot from the window on an overcast day. The light yesterday, on the other hand, made it a positively ghastly job...
Gasly jumps to third on a 1m18.363s, with a run on what looked like hypersofts. But as you know by now, they are devilishly difficult to see without a proper window run. Which we'll do now...
Vandoorne's first two laps of this run are low-1m21s. Gasly, on his first flying lap, sets a personal best first sector.
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Hypersofts! Didn't think we'd be saying that with 40 minutes to go. Sainz goes fourth on a 1m18.725s.
Vettel heading back out in the Ferrari now, he's just been matched by Gasly in the lap count stakes and has slipped a little way behind Verstappen - who leads the way on 164.
Nobody troubling their PBs, but Gasly and Sainz are lapping in the 1m19s.
Gasly and Verstappen follow closely behind.
Vandoorne, Hamilton, Sainz and Stroll all head out.
Green flag
Green green green.
Turn 4 is clear, so we should be back into action shortly...
Meanwhile, Ericsson's stricken Sauber is making its way onto the back of the flatbed truck.
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May as well give you that lap count a few minutes early... and as an extra treat, we'll combine the team-mates.
Bottas + Hamilton 160
Verstappen 158
Vettel 156
Gasly 152
Magnussen 142
Ericsson 136
Perez 130
Hulkenberg + Sainz 126
Vandoorne 117
Kubica + Stroll 111
Bottas + Hamilton 160
Verstappen 158
Vettel 156
Gasly 152
Magnussen 142
Ericsson 136
Perez 130
Hulkenberg + Sainz 126
Vandoorne 117
Kubica + Stroll 111
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Our red flag culprit, caught red handed
It's Turn 4 where Ericsson has managed to get himself beached. Recovery vehicles are on hand to assist.
Red flag
And sure enough.
Crash
Ericsson is in the gravel. That could be our first red flag of the day...
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Verstappen surpasses Vettel's lap count, having now completed 157. We'll give you a full run-down at the top of the hour.
Now Sainz has improved with a 1m19.595s, 0.020s behind Hamilton.
Sainz has broken out the supersofts for his latest run, but despite a personal best in the middle sector he fails to improve on his personal best on softs.
Vettel's back out on track again. His busy week just gets busier.
Vandoorne has cracked 100 laps, so that's every team into triple figures. A general lack of incidents has helped of course - 90 minutes to go and not a single red flag!
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Supersofts are the tyre of choice for Hamilton.
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Hamilton sets a new personal best of 1m19.575s, slotting in just ahead of Sainz in eighth.
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