Barcelona F1 test two day three
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Kubica out on track again and it's a new personal best of 1m20.674s.
Hulkenberg is out again on supersofts. Last time round was a couple of tenths off his best, but fuel load could be influencing that.
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New personal best for Magnussen: 1m20.131. He remains fifth behind Vandoorne, Hulkenberg, Vettel and Verstappen.
Verstappen is also out as Red Bull unleashes its latest secret weapon: a stepladder. Looks like something on the team's pitlane rig needs to be adjusted.
Ericsson sets a new personal best of the day: 1m21.028s. He's still at the bottom of the sheet, though.
Gasly is on ultrasofts, Magnussen, Ericsson, Perez and the recently emerged Vettel are on softs.
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It's interesting looking at Autosport's live commentary that there is not one mention of the dreaded halo! How quickly people get used to something.
This is the last day of running for some of these drivers, so will we see anyone wringing the cars neck before the chequered flag is waved? When it comes to hammer time, I still think we might just see a 1m16.something...
This is the last day of running for some of these drivers, so will we see anyone wringing the cars neck before the chequered flag is waved? When it comes to hammer time, I still think we might just see a 1m16.something...
Gasly now out again in the Toro Rosso after a relatively lengthy break.
Supersofts on the Renault now. Hulkenberg went by us quite slowly on the main straight, so don't get excited just yet.
Hulkenberg, Magnussen and Ericsson and Ericsson joining the party. Well, you can't keep Hulkenberg off the track, can you?
Track temperature has actually dropped from 25C to 21.1C and the graph has followed a far less linear path than it did yesterday. Ambients now up to 11.3C. If this were a night out in Hull, we'd be in T-shirts.
Perez out on track now.
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Early lap count during this lull:
Vandoorne 32
Vettel 29
Hulkenberg 28
Gasly 26
Verstappen 25
Bottas 25
Magnussen 23
Kubica 19
Perez 18
Ericsson 17
Vandoorne 32
Vettel 29
Hulkenberg 28
Gasly 26
Verstappen 25
Bottas 25
Magnussen 23
Kubica 19
Perez 18
Ericsson 17
Hulkenberg has been blitzing the lap times again, he's just headed back to the garage after doing enough for second
And silence falls on the track again. Everybody's back in the garage. Let's wave an orange flag and point out that Vandoorne's total of 32 laps is the most covered by anybody so far today. Vettel and Hulkenberg just behind on 29 and 28.
Hulkenberg's quick one was his last for now - he's back in the pits. We can cautiously chalk that lap down to a low fuel load.
Kubica parks up in the garage as Hulkenberg goes by in 1m33.041s. Looks like Renault is exploring the soft's one-lap performance because Hulk is green in sector two... and his next lap is his best of the day so far: 1m19.412s. That's second overall, pushing Vettel down to third.
1m19.816s for Hulkenberg. Third fastest now.
Bottas back in. Currently sixth on the board with 25 laps under his belt.
Kubica green again in the first two sectors... not in the last, but enough to raise his bar to 1m20.689s. Still ninth overall.
Hulkenberg cracks out a 1m20.076s, his best of the day, then follows it with a 1m30.695s.
Kubica does a 1m20.788s, his best of the day, then follows it up with a 1m26.536s.
Tyre check: Hulkenberg is out again on softs, Bottas on supersofts, Vandoorne on ultrasofts, Magnussen on softs. Vettel has returned to the garage.
Kubica improves again to 1m20.837s.
Kubica is running on the soft tyre at the moment. 13 laps total on the board so far.
Vettel has also gone back out in the Ferrari.
Vandoorne has gone out again - McLaren is up to 24 laps today. Magnussen also out on soft tyres in the Haas, and Kubica has just gone out and set a 1m21.252s which puts him ninth so far. Tyre check coming soon.
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Vettel pulls into the pits after raising Ferrari's total lap count for the day to 28. His best time is 1m19.679s.
Sebastian Vettel is in the Ferrari today. So far, he's done enough to be second on the timesheets
The field is currently separated by 2.935s from Vandoorne down to Kubica. Strike Vandoorne from the record on account of his time being set on the hypersofts - which are reckoned to be a second faster than the ultrasoft - and that's a slightly more realistic 1.9-ish seconds.
Bottas has gone round in 1m20.466s on the supersofts, putting him fifth fastest behind Vandoorne, Vettel, Verstappen and Magnussen.
Vandoorne back in. Well, that was interesting - still a way off Ricciardo's fastest lap on those hypersofts yesterday, but conditions are far less favourable this morning. Track temp just 18.9C and ambient is 9.6C.
1m18.858s that time around for Vandoorne. He was purple in sectors one and three, but success in the middle seems to have eluded him.
Hulkenberg has been improving on his own times with each run - he's currently sitting eighth
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The McLaren is on hypersofts, natch. A slower lap last time around - 1m31.420s - but he's purple again in sector one...
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Boom! Vandoorne pops in a 1m18.855s.
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