Barcelona F1 test two day two
Live Text
Sort by
Kvyat's on the C3 tyre, a glance from the media centre window confirms.
We look to be firmly in longer run territory, most lap times are in the 1m23-25s range now.
Grosjean is also going out, making it five cars on track.
Toro Rosso's Kvyat is heading out again, but it's at the wrong end of the pitlane for us to get a quick look at the tyres.
Blink and you'll miss it
Mercedes has now batted a century of laps today across Hamilton and Bottas. Encouraging after yesterday's problems hindered its programme.
But Hamilton is straight back out, while Hulkenberg goes into the garage.
Hulkenberg pits after posting his first time, with Hamilton joining him.
Hulkenberg gives us a lesser-spotted improvement, by virtue of doing his first real lap of the circuit on the C3 tyre.
His 1m22.277s is good enough to beat Ricciardo's morning best, which I'm sure will lead to bragging rights at Renault tonight.
Probably not, though.
His 1m22.277s is good enough to beat Ricciardo's morning best, which I'm sure will lead to bragging rights at Renault tonight.
Probably not, though.
Twitter
Hulkenberg is now out to begin Renault's afternoon.
Hamilton's heading out on C3s, while Perez is on the C2s for Racing Point.
Kubica is on the C3 tyre on his latest run for Williams.
No doubt we'll call Alfa Romeo Sauber at some point too.
Perez is back out for the 'team formerly known as Force India.'
We know we called Racing Point Force India earlier, but we're just very nostalgic on Autosport Live.
We know we called Racing Point Force India earlier, but we're just very nostalgic on Autosport Live.
Twitter
Kubica is back out again for Williams. The FW42 has previously been sporting a good amount of flow-vis paint, but some way short of the levels seen in the Hungary test last year.
We've yet to see Hulkenberg on track for Renault.
Raikkonen's lapping in the 1m22-23s range, with Sainz at a similar level of pace.
Raikkonen is on the C3, we've learned at the second time of asking.
1m23.056s is Raikkonen's first lap, and we missed what tyres he was on.
We know Sainz is on the C2 at least.
So one out of two in that latest round of 'Spot the Tyre'.
We know Sainz is on the C2 at least.
So one out of two in that latest round of 'Spot the Tyre'.
Raikkonen and Sainz have done their outlaps.
But Raikkonen and Sainz immediately rectify that problem by heading out.
There's no-one on track, which isn't so fun.
We know some F1 teams follow Autosport's testing coverage.
If you're reading this, please send out more cars.
If you're reading this, please send out more cars.
Just Sainz and Verstappen on track - neither lighting up the timing screens, but the Red Bull man maintaining his consistent pace.
Hamilton ends that C3 stint and goes back into the garage.
Kvyat has come into the pits and returns to the garage, leaving just Sainz, Verstappen and Hamilton on track.
Hamilton's approaching his 10th lap on the C3 tyre and is lapping in the high 1m20s, almost two seconds off his best time - which was on the same compound.
Information
Time to check in with the lap count as it stands, with the first hour of this afternoon done and dusted:
Verstappen - 108
Bottas - 74
Ricciardo - 72
Kubica - 72
Grosjean - 70
Sainz - 70
Raikkonen - 61
Kvyat - 60
Perez - 42
Vettel - 40
Hamilton - 19
Verstappen - 108
Bottas - 74
Ricciardo - 72
Kubica - 72
Grosjean - 70
Sainz - 70
Raikkonen - 61
Kvyat - 60
Perez - 42
Vettel - 40
Hamilton - 19
He definitely took on unmarked tyres this time.
Verstappen stops right below us and the unmistakable noise of pitguns means it's a proper pitstop and he takes on unmarked tyres.
Grosjean's on the C3 compound, we notice, as he trundles into the pits and stops. All that work identifying tyres and Haas decides to bring him into the garage. Cruel.
Verstappen's now up to 20 laps on the C2 and is still in the low 1m22s, an impressive-looking stint.
Grosjean heads out as Kubica comes in. One in, one out.
Looking at that timesheet we've had laps in the range of 1m21-25s in the last few minutes.
One driver even took 1m27s to get around the circuit. It's almost as if times aren't everything in testing.
One driver even took 1m27s to get around the circuit. It's almost as if times aren't everything in testing.
Perez brings the Racing Point back to the pits.
Not too much to report as we approach the end of the first hour of the afternoon. Six drivers - Sainz, Verstappen, Kvyat, Hamilton, Perez and Kubica - are out on track, but we've seen little in the way of improvements yet.
Hamilton heads out for another run on the C3s.
Kvyat's times are also holding up nicely. It's not clear what fuel load he's on, but the Toro Rosso driver is consistently lapping in the 1m21s.
By: Geoff Creighton
Published:
Page:
