Barcelona F1 test two day two
Live Text
Sort by
Verstappen's up to 13 laps for the day as he brings the Red Bull back into the pits again.
Verstappen set a purple second sector but fell around two tenths short with a 1m19.100s lap.
Raikkonen's next lap is three tenths slower than his best.
Just Verstappen, Vettel and Raikkonen on track now.
As we looked, Raikkonen improved to set a 1m21.423s lap. He stays third.
We got a better look at the Alfa that time around, so we know Raikkonen's time was set on the C3 tyre.
Stopwatch
Verstappen improves again to make the best time of the day a 1m18.979s.
Raikkonen gets on the timesheets with a 1m21.993s lap and goes third.
Vettel ends up six tenths down on his best time, while Kubica strolls across the line to make his time a 1m48.157s best.
Vettel's gone quickest of all in the first sector this time around, while Verstappen's bolted on some shiny new C3s for this stint.
Kubica's first lap wasn't exactly at full chat, lapping in 1m48.852s to get himself on the leaderboard.
With 30 minutes of the day already in the books, here’s the first lap count:
Verstappen, 9
Bottas, 9
Perez, 4
Vettel, 4
Sainz, 3
Kvyat, 2
Grosjean, 1
Raikkonen, 1
Kubica, 1
Ricciardo, 1
Verstappen, 9
Bottas, 9
Perez, 4
Vettel, 4
Sainz, 3
Kvyat, 2
Grosjean, 1
Raikkonen, 1
Kubica, 1
Ricciardo, 1
Vettel sets a lap of 1m22.316s to go second in the times, three tenths quicker than Bottas and over two seconds down on Verstappen.
We reckon Kubica is on the C4, but the view was obscured slightly by aero rakes.
Jake Boxall-Legge
As we saw yesterday, Mercedes is now running with an outwash front wing, which will be part of the package it takes to Australia.
The team brought the old-spec car for reliability and validation runs - this test is about getting the proper aerokit up and running.
The team brought the old-spec car for reliability and validation runs - this test is about getting the proper aerokit up and running.
Vettel's on the C3 tyre as he heads onto his first proper lap of this stint.
Perez is on the C5 tyre as he ends his out lap.
Kubica takes the Williams out for a drive.
Thankfully, everyone is spared from attempted humour as Perez heads out again. Vettel joins him on track too.
Still an empty track, we're brainstorming witty update fillers as we speak.
Here is Cozens's view from the media centre. We've certainly had worse!
We have an empty track right now.
And right on cue, the Red Bull driver pits.
Jack Cozens is positioned nicely above the Red Bull garage and says we can expect Verstappen's stint to end this time around. That would be eight laps in the book to start his day.
Twitter
Verstappen's running at about a second off his best time consistently.
Bottas has had the longest stint so far at nine laps before pitting, but Verstappen is starting his seventh tour now.
Perez comes back in at the end of his second lap.
Perez has gone past our window on the C5s.
Verstappen and Perez have the track to themselves.
Twitter
Verstappen's team-mate Gasly's fastest time yesterday was 1m17.715s, 0.006s off Norris's benchmark.
Stopwatch
Verstappen smashes his old time with a new lap of 1m19.983s.
We're keeping an eye on Ricciardo, who is in the garage, to see when this long race run starts.
Verstappen is going quicker again on this third lap.
That's over a second faster than Bottas, who is continuing to circulate but isn't going for big lap time gains.
Stopwatch
The Red Bull man goes fastest with a time of 1m21.038s, running those C3 tyres.
Verstappen purple in the second sector too.
Verstappen goes purple in the first sector. Clearly those go-faster sparks are doing their job.
Some excellent sparking from Verstappen on the start/finish straight.
By: Geoff Creighton
Published:
Page:
