Barcelona F1 test two day two
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Hulkenberg has now clocked up 70 laps - that's four more than a race distance here at Barcelona.
Bottas straight back to work for Mercedes after that brief trip to the pits.
Ricciardo heads back out in the Red Bull, Hulkenberg and Hartley are the only others on track now. Bottas is back in after that brief run.
Raikkonen comes in; a quick pitstop practice to fit medium tyres and then he's wheeled straight back into the garage.
Bottas sets a new personal best of 1m18.643s on his set of ultrasofts.
Leclerc is one of three drivers to have done over 100 laps today
Ocon becomes our third member of the '100 club' after Ricciardo and Leclerc. With quite a few teams splitting drivers today, there may not be many more.
Looks like a long run for Ocon, who's out on mediums and lapping consistently in the 1m22s.
The track is getting busier now as Bottas and Hartley head out.
Raikkonen down to a 1m20.242s now, which puts him eighth.
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New personal best for Raikkonen, a 1m20.520s. Ocon heads out in the Force India, meanwhile.
Hulkenberg now joined on track by Raikkonen in the Ferrari.
Renault has the highest total of laps so far today, ahead of Mercedes and Red Bull
54 laps on the board for Hulkenberg now. Well on the way to matching Sainz's 88 from this morning.
Just under two hours of today's session to go. If anyone fancies squeezing in a race distance, they've just about got enough time...
In any case, Bottas pits the Mercedes now, and comes up one tour shy of matching Red Bull.
Correction: Renault is in fact ahead of both Mercedes and Red Bull with 136 laps complete (courtesy of Hulkenberg and Sainz), so both have a little way to go to catch up the French equipe.
In weather news, as expected the ambient temperature has come to a plateau at 16.2C - we expect that to tail off very soon - and the track temperature has been creeping downwards. Now 29.4C after hitting a peak of 36C around not-lunchtime.
That's Ricciardo in the pits after 128 laps, so it may not be long before Mercedes ousts Red Bull to be today's productivity king.
Ricciardo might be commanding the mileage stakes right now with 127 laps done, but the combined Hamilton/Bottas tally is up to 123 and counting.
That leaves just Ricciardo, Bottas and Hulkenberg on track for the time being.
Raikkonen back into the pits with 12 laps to his name. A modest start to his running. Only two hours to go today.
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Lap count update:
Ricciardo 122Leclerc 113Ocon 94Hamilton 90Sainz 88Vettel 66Hartley 66Grosjean 64Stroll 63Alonso 47Sirotkin 44Hulkenberg 40Bottas 31Raikkonen 11
Ricciardo 122Leclerc 113Ocon 94Hamilton 90Sainz 88Vettel 66Hartley 66Grosjean 64Stroll 63Alonso 47Sirotkin 44Hulkenberg 40Bottas 31Raikkonen 11
Sirtokin's stricken car before Williams collected it
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Our understanding is there's no major problem on Sirotkin's car and the Williams will be out again soon.
Bottas pits after that short supersoft run, while Raikkonen moves to ninth on a 1m20.600s.
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Raikkonen gets above Ferrari protege Leclerc with a 1m20.876s.
After backing off and pushing again, Bottas clocks a 1m19.008s.
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Raikkonen, on softs, posts a 1m21.294s.
Bottas is out there on supersofts.
Way down in 13th place on the leaderboard, Raikkonen's just posted his best first sector so far.
STUART CODLING snapped the Williams being brought back
All good again. Back to the matters on track and Bottas is lapping the 1m19s while race-run Ricciardo is still in the mid 1m22s.
Yellow flag
Yellow flag in the pitlane as Sirotkin's Williams is wheeled towards his garage.
For completely clarity, that's because the mechanics outside the Red Bull garage are Williams ones.
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The Williams driver has stopped in the pitlane.
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