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Formula 1 Barcelona pre-season testing II
Barcelona F1 test: Vettel ends penultimate day on top
Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari ended the penultimate day of 2017 Formula 1 pre-season testing at Barcelona on top of the timesheets.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Mar 9, 2017, 5:30 PM
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The German driver set the fastest time of the winter yet on Thursday morning with a 1m19.024s on ultrasofts, almost three tenths up on Valtteri Bottas’s previous best set on Wednesday.
Vettel’s effort went unbeaten in the afternoon, as the top runners all focused their attentions on completing race simulations – and it was the Ferrari driver who ended up topping the lap count as well as the times, racking up no fewer than 156 laps.
Morning times were also enough to keep Lewis Hamilton second for Mercedes, ahead of Esteban Ocon (Force India) and Daniil Kvyat, who caused the first red flag of the afternoon when his Toro Rosso ground to a halt at Turn 5 around 90 minutes into the session.
Kevin Magnussen moved up to fifth in the Haas with a best time of 1m20.504s, set on ultrasofts, demoting Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull) and Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren) to sixth and seventh as neither improved on their personal bests from earlier in the day.
After his two stoppages in the morning, both caused by electrical issues, Vandoorne left the garage with around two hours of the afternoon remaining, but managed only a further 16 laps on top of the 32 he logged in the morning.
Bottas, taking over the Mercedes W08 from Hamilton for the afternoon, was eighth fastest with a best effort of 1m21.819s set on softs which left him 2.8s off the pace of Vettel.
The Finn completed 95 laps, giving Mercedes a total of 147 for the day.
Completing the top 10 were Pascal Wehrlein (Sauber) and Jolyon Palmer (Renault), who was responsible for the afternoon’s second stoppage – and the fourth of the day – when he came to a halt at Turn 10 following a power unit change.
Nico Hulkenberg was originally supposed to take over the Renault for the afternoon session, but the change of engine combined with Palmer’s problem meant he never appeared on track.
Marcus Ericsson (Sauber) ended the day 11th, ahead of Williams pair Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll, who propped up the times but managed to complete 165 laps between them.
Day 3 times:
DriverTeamTimeGap TyreLaps 1 
S. Vettel 
Ferrari 1:19.024 
156 2 
L. Hamilton 
Mercedes 1:19.352 0.328 52 3 
E. Ocon 
Force India 1:20.161 1.137 137 4 
D. Kvyat 
Toro Rosso 1:20.416 1.392 
94 5 
K. Magnussen 
Haas 1:20.504 1.480 119 6 
D. Ricciardo 
Red Bull 1:20.824 1.800 
128 7 
S. Vandoorne 
McLaren 1:21.348 2.324 48 8 
V. Bottas Mercedes 1:21.819 2.795 95 9 P. Wehrlein 
Sauber 1:22.347 3.323 44 10 J. Palmer 
Renault 1:22.418 3.394 53 11 
M. Ericsson Sauber 1:23.330 4.306 88 12 
F. Massa 
Williams 1:24.443 5.419 
80 13 
L. Stroll Williams 1:24.863 5.839 85
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