Barcelona F1 test two day two
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Outside the Red Bull garage the mechanics are tending to...Sirotkin!
Ricciardo posts a 1m22.523s.
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As our focus has been on an Australian in a Red Bull, here's what one of Australia's best series has has been up to in collaboration with F1: 
Bottas and Raikkonen on track so we've got the big three out there. Still not seen Alonso/McLaren since that necessary engine change.
Ricciardo's back out on mediums and his first lap is 1m22.354s.
Ricciardo comes in for a pitstop, gets serviced and heads out on his way. The Red Bull man, at 110 laps already, is on a race run.
Hulkenberg pits. Track's getting less busy by the minute.
Quite a busy track as Ricciardo (1m23.866s) is joined by Hulkenberg, Ocon, Leclerc and Sirotkin.
Raikkonen's back in the pitlane and stopped outside the Ferrari garage.
Raikkonen joins the fun for the first time.
Now where were we? Ricciardo's last lap was a 1m24.189s. We're doing this for a reason, honest.
Fortunately Hartley's Toro Rosso was close enough to the pitlane exit that his car's been wheeled back immediately. Running continues.
Green flag
Oh, we're green again. That was sudden.
Crash
Hartley did hit the track. But only just. He's stopped at the pitlane exit.
Red flag
Red flag.
Ricciardo, free of Sirotkin (it was the Williams he caught), gets straight back into the mid-1m23s.
Hartley's returned to the track in the Toro Rosso.
Ricciardo loses a second next time round but he came across traffic - look liked the Sauber or Williams.
Ricciardo is lapping consistently in his latest stint
Ricciardo finds some time on his latest run and clocks a 1m23.506s.
Leclerc pits and makes it three on the track.
Ricciardo follows that up with a 1m23.811s. Leclerc makes it four on the track. Ocon's actually stayed out there on what looks like mediums.
Bit slower from Ricciardo that time, a 1m23.822s.
Another 1m23.3s from Ricciardo is then followed by a 1m23.5s. Ocon heads out – will he string some laps together this time?
Sirotkin is one of two drivers on track currently
Just Ricciardo (1m23.3s) and Sirotkin (1m25.0s) left on track.
Bottas settles into the pits properly after the necessary inlap following his start practice.
Ricciardo's pace is picking up. Last lap was a 1m23.063s.
Hulkenberg pits after that improvement.
And another similar time from Ricciardo, a 1m23.393s.
Bottas into the pitlane for some burnouts as he practices start preparation.
There's an improvement, finally. Hulkenberg records a personal best in sectors two and three to post a 1m20.758s and jump to ninth.
Bottas pumps in another 1m19.9s. Ricciardo's last three laps have been 1m23.7s, 1m23.5s, 1m23.4s.
Still in the 1m19s, but only just: Bottas clocks a 1m19.929s.
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Leclerc's back out again.
Bit slower from Bottas next time by, a 1m19.783s. Ricciardo, to put that 'unrepresentative pace' comment into context, is four seconds slower.
Leclerc brings the Sauber back in swiftly followed by Ocon whose Force India must have been down the pitlane more than any other car today.
Ricciardo's not really popped in a representative time since heading out on the mediums.
By: Geoff Creighton
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