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Formula 1 Barcelona February Testing

F1 Barcelona pre-season test - Day 2

Minute by minute updates on the second day of the 2022 Barcelona F1 pre-season test

Daniel Ricciardo, McLaren MCL36

After a busy opening day of action which saw McLaren's Lando Norris top the times, all 10 teams are in action again for the start of the new era of F1, as the teams continue testing the new cars devised under the new technical regulations.

Track action gets underway at 8am GMT and finishes at 5pm GMT. The day will be split by a one-hour lunch break (12pm-1pm GMT) which can be reduced if requested due to lost track time from either red flags or poor weather conditions.

The second day will provide another good look at all of the 2022 F1 cars from every team, to see which teams have got it right and which have work to do. While never fully taken as the true pecking order, due to teams hiding outright performance levels by sandbagging their speeds, the tests still reveal an overview while giving teams which are struggling nowhere to hide.

The Barcelona shakedown test, conducted without live TV coverage or live timing, runs between 23-25 February. A second official test will follow in Bahrain on 10-12 March ahead of the 2022 F1 season opener at the same venue, the Bahrain Grand Prix, on 18-20 March.

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Schumacher's also on-track now, as is Ocon. That ought to liven things up a bit after the deadlock in running.
Hamilton breaks the lull and emerges from the garage - and currently has the circuit to himself.
All's currently quiet in the pitlane. Sainz and Ricciardo lead the mileage charts with 46 laps each, while Stroll has 43 and Schumacher has 41. Ocon sits on 40 laps, which sounds marginally uncomfortable.
There's a familiar face lurking in the background of that photo - although I didn't recognise him without sandals on. For those following on Twitter, you'll have to pop onto the site feed to see it...
Alex Kalinauckas
Alex Kalinauckas

"Red Bull is bringing a new floor into the garage."

 

Ricciardo and Perez are currently the only two drivers on the circuit, as we approach the final hour-and-a-half of this morning's running. Okay, make that Ricciardo - Perez has just dived into the box.
Ricciardo remains fourth, but posts a 1m21.775s on the C2 tyres to get within two tenths of third-placed Albon. The McLaren is looking luminous in its new paint scheme.
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It's a 1m22.412s for Perez, moving the Mexican up to fifth on the timesheets. Ocon, Stroll, Hamilton and Sainz continue to circulate too
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Sainz goes even quicker, setting a 1m20.546s - almost a second clear of Gasly. Haydn and Alex are standing by the window to gauge which tyres he was on, and they report a C3.
Schumacher moves up to P5 now on the C3 tyres, with a 1m22.535s, on his 32nd lap of the day. Haas seems to have found some more reliability today, which is encouraging after a few issues yesterday.
A flurry of photographic action takes place in the media centre, as Hamilton pits. The windows overhang the pitlane, allowing for the photographers to get top-down shots of the seven-time champion's Mercedes. I went too, but only to look at the tyres he was on - the C2s, naturally.
Hamilton is up to P5, posting a 1m22.562s on his 16th lap. Perez and Gasly have now taken to the circuit.
We've got a few drivers over the 30-lap boundary now: Sainz, Ricciardo and Ocon have all surpassed that figure, and Schumacher's just a lap away from crossing that too.
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Next time around, Bottas posts a 1m22.858s - on C3 tyres - to continue sitting in sixth place, and now begins his 10th lap.
It's a 1m23.159s for Bottas, who now moves up to P6 on his eighth lap of the day.
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Ricciardo pokes in a 1m21.923s to remain fourth on C2 tyres. Perez also did a 1m23.320s earlier - also on the second-hardest tyres available.
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"Okay Checo, let's go over the signals. If I tug the bill of my cap like so, it means the signal is a fake. However, I can take that off by dusting my hands thusly. If I want you to bunt, I'll touch my belt buckle not once, not twice, but thrice."

 

It's now a 1m21.466s for Gasly, who shuffles up to P2 on his 21st lap. Schumacher remains eighth, but posts a 1m23.499s.
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Sainz has extended his advantage at the top, popping in a 1m20.890s lap to sit with a 0.8s buffer over Albon in the times. Gasly moves up to P4 with a 1m22.602s.
Matt Kew
Matt Kew
"Back to the hot topic of porpoising. The Alpine doesn’t appear to suffer from it at all as it approaches top speed into Turn 1. It’s rock solid. But there appears to be a trade off for that granite-like set-up in that Ocon keeps locking up the front-left into the slow, cambered Turn 5. The tyre is very easily unloaded by the weight transfer. Come to mention it, Alonso did so frequently yesterday afternoon, too."
Perez now punches in a 1m23.417s - remaining P6, but edging closer to Ocon's time in fifth. Hamilton meanwhile pits, just shy of completing his 10th lap.
That's a 1m24.057s for Perez now, who moves ahead of Schumacher to sit sixth - and now begins his 10th lap of the day. He's out on the C2 tyres.
Perez has logged a 1m25.860s, while Hamilton posts a 1m26.282s on C3s - moving up to seventh and eighth respectively.
Albon has now joined the 20-lap club, circulating on the C3 tyre, while Hamilton and Perez rejoin the circuit to try and get into the double-figures of lap count.
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It's now a 1m23.280s for Ocon, with Albon and Stroll also out on the track at the moment.
Ocon punches in a 1m23.800s on his 20th lap of the day, continuing to put in the miles for Alpine. Alonso got 129 laps under his belt yesterday, as the Enstone squad looks to have decent reliability out of the gate.
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As we're past the first hour of the day, let's do a run-through of the standings:

1. Sainz - 1m21.010s - 21 laps
2. Albon - 1m21.657s - 14 laps
3. Ricciardo - 1m22.575s - 20
4. Stroll - 1m22.620s - 11
5. Schumacher - 1m24.107s - 14
6. Ocon - 1m24.231s - 18
7. Gasly - 1m27.651s - 16
8. Hamilton - 1m28.799s - 3
9. Bottas - 1m39.293s - 5
10. Perez - no time - 4

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Albon moves up to second with a 1m21.657s, finally setting a somewhat representative time this morning.

Bottas is back out, looking to add to his four laps so far as running has come at a premium down at Alfa Romeo. Schumacher, meanwhile, has started to string a few laps together for Haas and now begins his 14th tour of the Barcelona venue.
Sainz is the first driver of the day to hit the 20 lap mark, sitting comfortably in the 1m22s across his latest flurry of runs.
It's now a 1m24.107s for Schumacher, who's now up to P4 in the times as it stands. Only Perez and Bottas are yet to do a time worthy of the overall leaderboard.
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Back to the task at hand; Ricciardo moves up to third with a 1m22.997s, while Schumacher sets his first proper timed lap and pops in a 1m26.999s - both on the C2s.
...especially if you poached BAR's lead sponsor, made for the infamous '99 zip livery, and had the half-and-half logos on a Stewart. Something like that, anyway.
I don't know if anyone ever played the old EA F1 Manager game - but the BWT-liveried Alpine reminds me of it - in that you could sign a new title sponsor usually associated with another team, and your car would look a little odd...
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I prepared the fastest lap colour/icon early this time! Sainz raises the bar with a 1m21.010s at the close of his 10th lap - or lowers the bar, if we're talking in limbo contest terms.
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Oh, no he doesn't! Sainz flashes past and posts a 1m21.708s to take top spot, nearly a second faster than Stroll! The Ferrari driver was on the C3s for that lap.

By: Haydn Cobb

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