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Formula 1

Barcelona F1 test two day two

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And the fastest middle sector...
Hamilton's back out and has set the fastest first sector of anyone so far.
Stroll into the 1m20s now, just, with a 1m20.900s. He stays ninth, but if he can find a tenth of a second he'll be seventh.
Crash
Update from McLaren: an engine change is taking place. A small oil leak resulted in the failure that stopped Alonso earlier.
Green flag
Hartley's back into the pitlane now, so that was over very swiftly. Looks like it happened at Turn 12, the uphill right-hander near the beginning of the final sector.
Red flag
Red flag. Looks like the Toro Rosso driver might have spun. He was stopped. But he's got going again.
Crash
A car's stopped on track. It's Hartley.
Stroll makes a minor improvement in ninth, shaving a few hundredths off to a 1m21.001s.
Ricciardo's next lap is in the mid-1m19s. Sainz and Hartley are currently threatening to improve.
Hamilton pits. Tease.
Here's Ricciardo...into the 1m18s! A 1m18.964s and he's just 0.280s slower than Hamilton.
Ricciardo goes quickest of anyone in the middle sector.
Hamilton going even quicker in the first sector now.
Stopwatch
Hamilton lowers the benchmark by a small margin – the gap's still only just under half a second. His new best is 1m18.684s.
Ricciardo with a personal best in the middle sector – and the final sector. He's down to a 1m19.161s. Four tenths back from Hamilton.
Looks like Hamilton is also on ultrasoft tyres.
Ricciardo out for Red Bull as well. He's on ultrasoft tyres again.
Hamilton heads out again in the Mercedes.
He's coming around (to paraphrase Kylie Minogue): 1m21.720s for Hartley.
1m22.006s that time around for Hartley.
Hartley's first flying lap is a 1m23.780s. It's been nearly an hour since we last saw the Toro Rosso out on track; Hartley's best time from an earlier run on softs was 1m20.834s.
Hartley's on softs, so let's see what he can do as we approach the hour or two where track temperatures are likely to peak.
Bringing to an end our brief moment of quiet, Hartley departs the Toro Rosso garage and heads out on track.
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Lap count update:

Sainz 66
Hamilton 56
Ricciardo 53
Leclerc 51
Alonso 47
Vettel 45
Grosjean 43
Hartley 36
Ocon 34
Stroll 29
After that burst of activity, everyone seems to have ended their programmes at once. Vettel is the last man in, and as he cuts the Ferrari's engine a certain hush falls over the track.
Hamilton brings the Mercedes back into the pitlane and stops outside his garage. That's his run over.
Stopwatch
A 1m18.752s for Lewis, fastest of all today! We await to see if the timing provider poops the party.
Stroll and Leclerc both into the pits now.
A 1m32.227s lap for Leclerc - perhaps he's had a moment out on track. Sainz sets a new personal best of 1m20.042, though, and he's still on the mediums.
Hamilton goes by in 1m19.054s, so perhaps we won't have to wait too long for a 'proper' new unofficial lap record...
A personal best in sector three enables Stroll to surpass his own benchmark again. 1m21.078s this time.
Sainz, meanwhile, carries on pounding around on mediums in the 1m21s bracket.
Another personal best for Stroll - 1m21.155s - as Hamilton's first flying lap clocks in at 1m23.037s
Hamilton back out on the supersofts as Stroll sets a new personal best in sector one. He was half a second off his best last time around.
That's 0.028s faster than Leclerc's best.
Strollwatch: a new personal best of 1m21.168 elevates himself to the dizzy heights of ninth fastest.

By: Geoff Creighton

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