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F1 Barcelona pre-season test - Day 2
Minute by minute updates on the second day of the 2022 Barcelona F1 pre-season test
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Albon takes to the track too after a bit of a layoff - his session stalling out after 26 laps in the Williams FW44.
Hamilton draws out of the pits now, as Gasly drops a personal best - a 1m21.132s - on the C3 tyres. Albon's out on C3s and Ocon's also running C2 rubber.
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With 45 minutes on the clock, the timings look like this:
- Sainz, Ferrari, 1m20.546s, C3 - 61 laps
- Gasly, AlphaTauri, 1m21.132s, C3 - 41
- Albon, Williams, 1m21.657s, C3 - 30
- Ricciardo, McLaren, 1m21.698s, C2 - 51
- Stroll, Aston Martin, 1m21.920s, C3 - 47
- Schumacher, Haas, 1m21.949s, C3 - 53
- Perez, Red Bull, 1m22.412s, C2 - 34
- Hamilton, Mercedes, 1m22.562s, C2 - 39
- Bottas, Alfa Romeo, 1m22.858s, C3 - 12
- Ocon, Alpine, 1m23.280s, C2 - 52
Gasly sets a purple first sector, but his latter two sectors are some way off of his own best efforts. Thus, no improvement for the time being.
Perez and Gasly were getting very racey along the start/finish straight, Gasly tucked up right behind the Red Bull. Perhaps a bit of wake exploration from the Red Bull-owned teams on the grid?
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It's a 1m20.948s for Ricciardo, who shuffles up to second place in the timings, going just under 0.2s faster than Gasly.
"Hamilton isn’t getting on too well with this new set of C3 Pirellis. On his out lap there was a big lock up from the front-left into Turn 10, then again next time around. And for good measure, he then locked the front right at Turn 13 so it didn’t feel left out. Then, the Merc has come round again and aborted Turn 13 altogether. Perhaps there’s been a lot of tweaking to the set-up to try and combat the W13’s penchant for porpoising. Either way, it looks unwieldy."
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Red flag
Sergio Perez has stopped on the exit of Turn 13, bringing out our first red flag of the test.
A handful of Red Bull personnel has clambered into a course car in order to go and recover Perez's stranded car.
Perez jumps out of the Red Bull as track marshals arrive on the scene
Photo by: Matt Kew
"Red Bull has arrived with effectively a full body bag for the RB18. The car has been lifted six inches or so and the cover slides completely underneath and wraps over the top to fend off any keen onlookers. Speaking of which, the Williams guys here are impressed by the tailor-made cloth."
There's 20 minutes left in this morning session - hopefully we'll get going again relatively soon. Red Bull is bringing its RB18 back to base - the pitlane entry klaxon's just gone off, prompting a mass of movement from the media centre in the direction of the window.
Perez's Red Bull covered up and being returned to the team garage
Photo by: Matt Kew
Green flag
Running has now resumed, Gasly getting us back underway for the final 15 minutes of the morning session.
Ricciardo, Albon, Stroll, Schumacher and Ocon have all got out on track, as has Sainz. It's going to be a busy end to the session.
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Gasly moves up to P2 with a 1m20.764s, but he's immediately shuffled down a spot as Ricciardo logs a 1m20.355s to go fastest! Albon posts a 1m21.531s lap immediately after.
Bottas is apparently showing with a 1m04.839s - not a time counted for the leaderboard, but he's found some kind of pace with the Alfa Romeo. Presumably by missing some corners...
Ah, it only counted Bottas' last two sectors on a pit exit lap, hence his erroneously quick time. He's still P9 with a best time of 1m22.858s, but is setting personal bests...
That's a 1m22.335s for Bottas this time around, moving up to P7 ahead of Perez and Hamilton.
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Bottas brings his time down to a 1m22.288, continuing a run on the C3 tyres. He's up to 18 laps for the morning now after only sporadic periods on track.
Checkered flag
Time's up, folks! That's your lot for this morning - Ricciardo remains fastest from Sainz, with Gasly P3.
The customary series of practice starts is upon us, as the cars line up on the grid - some with more optimistic grid slots than what they'll realistically achieve...
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Report: Ricciardo tops red flagged F1 Barcelona test day 2 morning
McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest time on the second morning of Formula 1’s first 2022 pre-season test, which is taking place at Barcelona:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/2022-f1-barcelona-test-report-day-2/8457511/
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The lunchtime press conferences are underway. Sebastian Vettel was asked about the Russian GP: "Obviously if you look at the calendar, we have a race scheduled in Russia. For myself, my own opinion is I should not go, I will not go. I think it’s wrong to race in that country."
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F1 Barcelona test day 2 - afternoon drivers
20 minutes until the afternoon session commences. Here's a reminder of the line-up for the post-lunch running:
Mercedes: Russell
Red Bull: Perez
Ferrari: Leclerc
McLaren: Ricciardo
Alpine: Ocon
AlphaTauri: Gasly
Aston Martin: Vettel
Williams: Latifi
Alfa Romeo: Zhou
Haas: Mazepin
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PLUS: The defiant hope behind Ferrari's vital 2022 F1 mission
Ferrari has taken a bold approach with its new 2022 Formula 1 car, that was long in its gestation. Now the pressure is on the storied Italian team - as LUKE SMITH explains:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/how-ferrari-is-going-big-to-become-an-f1-winner-once-more/8455279/
Here's the current state of play with lap counts in this morning's session:
Sainz - 71 laps
Ocon - 66
Schumacher - 66
Ricciardo - 65
Gasly - 61
Stroll - 55
Albon - 47
Hamilton - 40
Perez - 38
Bottas - 21
Which team is going to be first to 100 laps today? Ferrari got to the century mark first yesterday, with the F1-75 looking reliable. And good. It looks very good.
Green flag
F1's afternoon session now begins - and the light at the end of the pit exit turns green. Let the fun continue.
There's a faint hum from the end of the pitlane - it seems someone's fired up and ready to go...
And it's gone quiet again. No queue at the end of the pitlane just yet, as the teams finish off their lunch.
No action so far the first 10 minutes of this session; hopefully something will emerge relatively shortly!
That sounds like a car leaving the garage - it is, and it's Sebastian Vettel, who kicks off the afternoon running.
Pierre Gasly joins Vettel on the track, having done 61 laps this morning. Vettel ends his first lap around the circuit and crosses the line.
And with that, I'll now leave you in the good hands of our Autosport.com editor Haydn Cobb - who will take over Live duties for this afternoon.
Afternoon all! How are we? Like Vettel and Russell who have just come out of the pits, I'm fuelled and ready for a long run programme.
Latifi has jumped into the Williams this afternoon and is out on the track for the first time this session, while F1 rookie Zhou makes his first appearance of 2022 pre-season testing for Alfa Romeo.
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