Barcelona second pre-season test Test day three
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Sutil improves to a 1m24.890s.
Sutil's comeback commences in earnest with a 1m25.936s to go seventh.
Button starts his flying laps for the day with a 1m24.530s, putting the McLaren fifth.
That lap from Alonso came on soft tyres. Next time around he does a 1m24.1s.
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Alonso takes the fastest time away from Maldonado again with a 1m22.301s.
Marussia shows that traffic cones still have a role in modern F1. Even Red Bull was using them as pit markers yesterday.
Hulkenberg is out now on hard tyres, lapping in mid-1m28s.
Webber did a single 1m40s lap, then pitted.
A big lock-up into Turn 1 as Webber commences the first flying lap of this outing.
Maldonado and Hulkenberg rejoin the track too.
Webber leaves the pits in the Red Bull.
Rest of the pack: Alonso 18, Maldonado 12, Hulkenberg 14, Chilton, 10, Button 6.
Van der Garde has been busiest with 24 laps, then Webber on 22 and Grosjean on 21.
No times yet from Sutil or Button, though Sutil has done 13 in/out laps.
Alonso is fastest on a 1m22.510s, 0.185s up on Maldonado, then Webber, Grosjean, Vergne, Hulkenberg, van der Garde, Chilton, Rosberg.
A quiet track now with all 11 teams back in the pits, so a good time for a recap.
Alonso brings his run to an end and pits after two flying laps.
Some debate over whether Lewis Hamilton's dog should appear on the homepage. This gets an editorial veto because Roscoe is not a greyhound.
The Ferrari is out on soft tyres and its second lap of the run is a 1m24.785s.
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Alonso grabs the top spot from Maldonado with a 1m22.510s.
Grosjean jumps up to fourth on a 1m24.376s, 1.7s off Maldonado.
Improvement from van der Garde, who does a 1m27.344s in fifth place.
Vergne improves to 1m25.577s in fourth.
Webber does a single lap on medium tyres then pits.
Highest lap count so far is Vergne on 20, though Webber is catching up as he sets out to begin his 19th.
Chilton just paused at the Marussia pit and now resumes running, commencing a 10th lap.
Everyone has set a time bar Sutil and Button.
Chilton comes back in, so the track is empty.
As is clear from that digression, the track has gone quiet bar Chilton on a slow lap.
It even included Gilles Villeneuve's dogs.
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Lewis Hamilton isn't driving today, so he's walking dog Roscoe in paddock.
A string of recent improvements among the group of cars still running either heavier or on purely evaluation programmes put van der Garde, Hulkenberg and Vergne fourth, fifth and sixth.
Webber improves to a 1m23.406s. He's out on medium tyres.
Maldonado was on another single flying lap, using super-soft tyres - a rare choice for this week.
Webber rejoins the circuit as Maldonado gets up to speed with a 1m23.1s.
On track now, Vergne and Maldonado.
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The Ferrari is running soft tyres, and goes up to a 1m25s on its second flying lap.
Alonso up to second place on a 1m22.998s.
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