Barcelona F1 test two day two
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A 1m19.380s from Bottas. This is a nice looking run.
Bottas does a 1m19.500s and then a 1m19.490s. Consistent. Ocon's just running in and out of the pitlane at the moment.
Toro Rosso and Honda have again steadily racked up the laps as McLaren misses out on track time
Bottas's first lap on this run is a 1m19.758s. Ocon back into the pits after another outlap/inlap.
Ricciardo heads out on mediums.
Ricciardo heads out on mediums.
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Ocon back into the pitlane again.
Bottas is on mediums. MEDIUMS. Any complaints about this being incorrect should definitely be addressed to Edd Straw. Preferably in podcast form.
Bottas back on track (but is he on hypersofts or mediums?) and Ocon heads out too.
Vigilant tyre-spotters are being despatched to the window as we type.
Vigilant tyre-spotters are being despatched to the window as we type.
Hartley's super consistent on this soft-tyre run. Another lap just a tenth off his best.
Hartley's got the track to himself now. The Toro Rosso driver is on a solid 61 laps for the day so far. His last effort was just a tenth off his best.
Sirotkin's stint is over. He's now got 24 laps on the board already. Hulkenberg has 19 and Bottas 12. The afternoon runners have got down to business pretty quickly.
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Leclerc's in the pits as well now.
Well, Sirotkin backed off, and Hulkenberg's pit. So guess the answer's kind of a yes.
Sirotkin and Hulkenberg flash across the line pretty lose together. A couple of seconds apart. Wonder if they'll have the sense to create a bit of space.
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Around Barcelona, tyres are a bit of a mixed bag. The harder compounds, which by being harder are actually stiffer so they give the car more stability around the fast corners at Turn 3 and Turn 9, will also suffer less tyre deflection on the straights into Turn 1 and Turn 10 - so will be a little faster.
The softer compounds give more grip and traction in the slow corners, so will be better out of Turns 5, 7 and through most of the last section including the chicane.
So I'm pretty sure we will see different tyre compound time offsets between different chassis and even different drivers, as some of them feel the car's movements just that little bit sensitively.
The softer compounds give more grip and traction in the slow corners, so will be better out of Turns 5, 7 and through most of the last section including the chicane.
So I'm pretty sure we will see different tyre compound time offsets between different chassis and even different drivers, as some of them feel the car's movements just that little bit sensitively.
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Hartley heads out in the Toro Rosso. Hulkenberg's threatened improvement didn't materialise.
Sirotkin, out on softs, keeps surprising us when he crosses the start-finish line because his transponder isn't being picked up through the middle sector.
Now Hulkenberg steps it up – personal best in the first sector.
Ocon's back in. Hulkenberg's first supersoft flying lap is 0.8s off his best.
Hulkenberg's got the supersoft tyres fitted to his Renault so he should make some progress up the leaderboard even if he's on a longer run.
As one Mercedes driver comes in, another heads out – protege Ocon takes his Force India onto the track. Hulkenberg's also back out in the Renault.
Bottas is in the pits. And so we've got our first proper look at him as he came down the pitlane – good news for people blown away by that laptime, he's on hypersoft tyres, not mediums.
The washed-out pink hypersofts and the white-walled mediums are very tricky to identify as the cars flash past the start-finish straight at speed. Three different pairs of eyes couldn't be 100% confident what tyres he was on.
The washed-out pink hypersofts and the white-walled mediums are very tricky to identify as the cars flash past the start-finish straight at speed. Three different pairs of eyes couldn't be 100% confident what tyres he was on.
Back into the 1m19s, just, for Bottas. Leclerc and Sirotkin have joined in.
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There's been plenty of McLaren woe updates in the live coverage to date, but the team insists its car is not flawed: 
After lapping in the 1m19s Bottas has now posted a 1m20.0s.
Bottas's latest lap is a couple-hundredths shy of his best.
Bottas now fastest again in the first sector, and another personal best in the middle.
Bottas goes third, 0.611s slower than Ricciardo.
Personal best in the middle sector from Bottas...
Bottas now fastest of anyone in the first sector.
Bottas posts personal bests in sectors two and three but the overall lap is 0.033s slower.
Sirotkin now down to a 1m24.162s.
Bottas now goes third-fastest. There was a big chunk of time between Hamilton and Vettel and Bottas has just about slotted into it, 1.3s off Ricciardo's pace.
Bottas wastes no time jumping up the order, posting a 1m20.361s to go eighth.
Sirotkin's latest lap is a 1m24.501s. Still slowest, but getting quicker.
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Grosjean's out on track in the Haas now as well. Things are picking up after the not-a-lunchbreak lunchbreak.
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