Barcelona F1 test two day three
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Yes, Vettel heads out on track. Just him, Hulkenberg, Gasly and Vandoorne at the moment. Verstappen has just come back in.
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More smoke in the pitlane - looks like Ferrari has fired up again.
Hulkenberg ups his personal ante to 1m20.730s - we're not labouring the point, it's just that he's the only driver improving at the moment.
There was another nose change for Verstappen during his recent stop
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Verstappen changed front wings again at that last pitstop.
And a new personal BTD by Perez - 1m20.805. He and The Hulk are still seventh and eighth.
New personal BTD from Hulkenberg - 1m21.125s.
Verstappen pits and swaps from mediums to softs.
Another fractional improvement from Hulkenberg - 1m21.153s.
Hulkenberg improves to 1m21.196s, still eighth, but he looks to be on another long run anyway.
Bottas is going out again on supersofts, so we expect to see Mercedes occupy its more regular territory shortly. Bottas currently ninth fastest.
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Kubica goes quicker again - 1m21.909s - but remains eighth.
A brace of new personal bests: Perez with 1m21.166s, still sixth quickest, then Hulkenberg on 1m21.704s and Kubica on 1m22.749s. Perez and Kubica are on softs, Hulk on mediums.
Quick nose change going on for Verstappen down in the pitlane
Kubica also out and going green in sector one...
1m21.291s for Perez - a more representative lap, but still sixth quickest.
Perez out on softs and he's put Force India on the board with a 1m25.319s. Hulkenberg is on mediums and has done a 1m22.313s on his second time over the line. Five laps so far for the Renault.
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A 1m20.571s puts Verstappen fourth quickest, ahead of Gasly.
Vandoorne brings his second full run of the day to a close after a total of 16 laps. He's still fastest of all so far.
Ericsson also in after another evaluation lap without clocking a time. He's done seven so far.
A pair of interested onlookers
Magnussen comes to the end of his run as Hulkenberg begins another. Looks like we might see the Renault set a time now.
Duly, Gasly goes by in 1m20.916s. Not quite enough to oust Magnussen from third so far. They're both on the soft tyre, but fuel loadings are unknown of course.
Magnussen has settled back into a rhythm of doing consistent 1m22s laps. Gasly has gone green in the first two sectors so he might be about to move up again...
Vandoorne is currently topping the timing screens for McLaren
Gasly does a new personal best of 1m21.014s.
Vandoorne cycling between 'push' laps and slower ones, testing the potential of that hypersoft. He's clocked up 14 laps so far - a quarter of McLaren's total from yesterday.
Bottas yet to set a representative lap time for Mercedes and Ericsson, Perez, Kubica and Hulkenberg yet to set a time at all.
Gasly pips Verstappen to fourth with a 1m21.454s.
Magnussen and Verstappen improve again to 1m20.316s and 1m21.489s.
Vettel improves to 1m20.028s, Magnussen to 1m20.719s and Verstappen to 1m21.980s, but they remain second, third and fourth in the order.
Vandoorne didn't manage to go purple in the final sector, though.
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Vandoorne improves again to 1m19.358s, again running hypersoft tyres.
Vandoorne back out and purple again in the first two sectors...
Magnussen improves to 1m21.196s and Verstappen goes by in 1m22.774s - third and fourth behind Vandoorne and Vettel, whose best is a 1m20.216s.
Magnussen takes to the track in the Haas, setting the third fastest time of the day so far
Magnussen goes around in 1m22.056s, third fastest time of the day. We don't expect Haas to focus on performance today, though - it needs to accumulate mileage after falling behind on its planned programme.
By: Geoff Creighton
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