Barcelona F1 test two day two
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Grosjean improves using soft tyres, he's found four tenths and set a 1m21.287s.
Leclerc's latest effort on this soft tyre run yields a 1m22.552s.
Sainz and Ricciardo are in the pits after very good work on the medium tyre for Renault and Red Bull respectively.
Hamilton's set another time that would be quick enough for P1 by about a tenth of a second.
Leclerc gets on the board with a 1m25.469s, then brings it down to a 1m24.062s next time through.
Ricciardo into third place and into the 1m19s – a 1m19.955s to be exact. Red Bull will be enjoying this medium-tyre run.
We're less than a tenth away from the fastest time of testing so far.
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Hamilton sets personal best times in the first two sectors and the best final sector of anyone to fly to a 1m19.404s.
Hartley finally moves up from eighth place as his latest lap, 1m21.364s, takes him above Grosjean and into seventh.
Ricciardo just 0.010s from Red Bull's engine supplier Renault now as he improves to a 1m20.212s.
Hartley's improved to a 1m21.706s.
Sainz jumps to third now on a 1m20.202s.
Alonso's back out in the McLaren so his spell in the garage didn't last long.
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Hamilton goes quickest! A 1m19.830s. He knocks Alonso off top spot by 0.026s.
Hamilton's second flying lap is a couple of tenths slower but then he finds a bit more serenity and improves to second on a 1m20.246s.
We've checked twice now as he flashed past and it looked like Hamilton had unmarked tyres on – sometimes Pirelli uses such rubber to validate things such as alternative production facilities.
We've checked twice now as he flashed past and it looked like Hamilton had unmarked tyres on – sometimes Pirelli uses such rubber to validate things such as alternative production facilities.
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Stuart Codling
Robert Kubica is in the Williams garage with headphones on, staying across everything.
Ricciardo makes a big improvement on his latest run and gets ahead of Hamilton for fourth. The Red Bull driver found half a second to set a 1m20.439s.
Hartley's got down to a 1m22.740s, although he's still only eighth fastest.
Hamilton shoots up to fourth on a 1m20.487s. Didn't see him head out – there was quite a lot of improving happening on the timing screens! Will check the Mercedes' tyres next time through.
Sainz, after a breather, pushes again and sets a 1m20.334s. That gets him to just 0.061s behind Vettel's Ferrari.
Vettel brings that run to an end.
Make that a 1m23.145s for Hartley, who now has 10 laps to his name.
Hartley, on soft tyres, has got down to a less-unrepresentative (odd way to put it but we're sticking by it) 1m23.310s.
Vettel sets the fastest first sector of anyone on his soft tyres, and a personal best in the middle – but the lap is more than two tenths off his own best, so something happened in the final sector.
Stuart Codling
When you get closer to the McLaren, the lack of detail is obvious - clearly a very basic testing package.
Meanwhile Ricciardo's up to fourth on a 1m20.977s.
Sainz duly finishes his lap and, in a shock move, it's an improvement. A minor one, but it gets him to a 1m20.437s.
Sainz is about to complete his 16th lap to join his hero Alonso at the top of the 'most mileage so far' pile. But still, a very encouraging first 50 minutes for McLaren.
When Alonso came into the pits, he was not only quickest but also had more laps to his name than anyone (16).
Hartley's got himself on the board in the Toro Rosso with a 1m26.232s. He and Stroll don't have representative times, but it's better than Leclerc, who has no time at all.
Sainz heard us, surely. He sets a 1m20.496s and is just 0.640s slower than Alonso, who pits in the McLaren after a good shift.
Ricciardo fifth now on a 1m21.177s. Several teams knuckling down with good multi-lap runs inside the opening hour.
No improvement from Sainz, what's he playing at? Just the five or six straight personal bests in a row.
That McLaren is still circulating helps validate Boullier's comments yesterday that its runs aren't qualifying simulations, because Alonso's completed several laps. That'd be an odd qualifying strategy.
Tidier lap from Alonso, down to a 1m21.469s. He's settled into a decent run on the hypersofts after those early push laps.
Ricciardo sixth now on a 1m21.437s. Sainz improves yet again, and now he's third on a 1m20.716s. Nice run on the mediums for the Renault driver.
Alonso's being caught on track by Vettel, who can't be more than a few seconds back. Alonso's last lap was a 1m22.0s, Vettel's a 1m21.7s.
Ricciardo's dipped below the 1m22s barrier. He's now on a 1m21.896s.
By: Geoff Creighton
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