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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test two day two

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Nothing but net (gains) for Ricciardo until this lap. It's a 1m22.677s this time around as Kubica ends his latest stint.
Guess what Ricciardo's done now? That's right, he's found time. He's now set a 1m22.597s time.
Two green sectors aren't enough for Kubica to improve again.
Ricciardo's finding time easily at the minute, it's now 1m22.715s for the Renault driver.

Tenth a lap at the minute. Gains.
Ricciardo goes quicker again, this time it's 1m22.855s. Good run for the Australian here.
That time suggests Williams still has some work to do on the softer compounds, but you would expect this is still part of the learning curve with the new car that's missed so much testing time.
No surprise that a much softer compound helps Kubica to improve to 1m19.991s.
More time found by Ricciardo, it's now a 1m22.898 as his best lap.
Kubica is out again and is now on the C4.
Raikkonen narrowly misses out an improvement, but Ricciardo doesn't.

The Renault driver improves to 1m22.933s.
That lap holds him in 10th.
Yes there is, it's a 1m23.377s for Ricciardo.
Ricciardo goes green in his second sector. Improvement to come?
Scott Mitchell
After that crash a little while ago, we shouldn't expect to see the Ferrari again for some time. That means Vettel's day is over, and Leclerc may only appear late in the afternoon.

Ferrari says it foresees the car "won’t go out on track for a few hours". Still no firm details about the cause of the off, but we know the left side of the front wing was on the ground and sparking. Balance of probability suggests some kind of front wing failure or problem on the front-left corner of the car.
And he moves up a place to sixth, 1m19.194s the time that did it.
Raikkonen's set two personal best sectors.
Raikkonen is on the ever-popular C3s too as he begins his first proper lap.
Raikkonen heads back out in the Alfa.
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With under 30 minutes of the morning session to go at Barcelona, here’s the latest lap count:

Verstappen, 58
Bottas, 57
Ricciardo, 53
Sainz, 42
Vettel, 40
Grosjean, 38
Kvyat, 33
Kubica, 32
Perez, 29
Raikkonen, 28
Not much is happening on track, but all the drivers that are running are fairly close together. Sainz, Verstappen, Bottas and Grosjean on track.
Kubica this time heads back into the Williams garage for good.
Verstappen is out again on a new set of C3s.
Bottas gets a lovely tow from the Racing Point of Perez on the main straight and sets a new best top speed over the start/finish line.
Kubica makes a quick visit to the Williams box before heading back out on track.
Perez achieves the rare feat of setting a new fastest lap despite failing to record personal bests in any of the three sectors. He's still sixth, now on a 1m19.202s.
Perez and Sainz are both on the easily identifiable yellow-walled C3.
No improvement in the end from either Verstappen or Bottas.
Perez and Sainz have both headed out now.
Bottas also betters his best time through sector one on his first flying lap.
For completion's sake, Verstappen is on the C3 tyre and sets a personal best in the first sector.
Kubica sets personal bests in two of his three sectors on his latest hot lap, but his time in the middle sector lets him down and he can't improve.
Bottas also heads out and is definitely on the mid-range tyre.
Out goes Verstappen for another run in the Red Bull. We're going to take a wild guess here and assume he's on C3 tyres.
It's an improvement in time but not position for Kubica. His new best is a 1m20.600s.
Personal bests in the first and second sectors for Kubica on this first flying lap.
Kubica flashes past on the C3 tyres - we're certain this time - as Ricciardo brings the Renault back into the pitlane to go onto a what appears to be a new set of unmarked tyres.
Kubica is also back on track now in the Williams.
Our eyes deceived us - it's the C2 compound the Haas is currently fitted with.

By: Geoff Creighton

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