Summary

  • Lewis Hamilton fastest in the morning

  • Nico Rosberg in the Mercedes in the afternoon

  • Trouble for Haas as Gutierrez completes one lap

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Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  2. We've done well to get to one hour before the end of testing to have our first red flag of the day!

    It is for the Sauber of Marcus Ericsson. He's in the gravel just after Turn 4 and facing the wrong direction.

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    Red flag

  4. A good day for McLaren, with Jenson Button passing a century of laps.

    Maybe the predictions many of you gave earlier for the season are not too optimistic after all...

  5. Testing latest

    1. Valtteri Bottas 1:23.261 93 laps  

    2. Lewis Hamilton 1:23.622 73 laps

    3. Kevin Magnussen 1:23.933 123 laps

    4. Sebastian Vettel 1:24.611 129 laps

    5. Jenson Button 1:25.183 103 laps

    6. Daniel Ricciardo 1:25.235 113 laps

    7. Carlos Sainz 1:25.300 141 laps

    8. Sergio Perez 1:26.188 117 laps

    9. Nico Rosberg 1:26.298 71 laps  

    10. Pascal Wehrlein 1:27.064 64 laps

    11. Marcus Ericsson 1:27.862 50 laps

    Esteban Gutierrez No time 1 lap

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    Is this the magic roundabout in Swindon? Proud to say it never caused me bother when I lived there. 

    I guess that makes me better than Lewis Hamilton.

  7. Jenson Button is also on a race simulation.

  8. Race sims are the order of day for a number of teams today. We know Nico Rosberg and Daniil Ricciardo are doing them, with Rosberg coming to the end of his.

    Carlos Sainz and Kevin Magnussen are also on race runs.  

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    Here's the tyres the fastest times were set on at lunch. 

    Since then Valtteri Bottas has gone fastest on the supersoft while Nico Rosberg's time of 1:28.298 was on mediums. 

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  11. Speaking of Haas, their running is done for the day. 

    Esteban Gutierrez had managed just one install lap before the team spotted an anomaly after changing the turbo charger and he hasn't been out since.

    Meanwhile, Daniel Ricciardo's race sim continues, he has just taken on a set of hard tyres. 

  12. Problems? What problems?

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    Both Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari customer team Haas have had reliability issues in testing, prompting speculation there may be problems with its engine.

    Team principal Maurizio Arrivabene and there's been no issues for Sebastian Vettel when he has been in the car. He has had a trouble-free day so far and is on 107 laps and counting.

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  14. We've got a new name at the top of the timesheet for today. Valtteri Bottas has reached for the super softs and popped out a solitary flying lap in which he clocked 1:23.261. 

    That time is three tenths of a second quicker than Lewis Hamilton's, but the world champion had set his on the soft tyre.

  15. And another whose programme for this afternoon involves a race simulation...

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  17. Nico Rosberg, into his third stint of his race simulation, posts a personal best for the day with 1:28.697. He's on to 43 laps now.

  19. Like Nico Rosberg, Daniel Ricciardo also appears to be on a race simulation. A good chance to see how the two compare. 

  20. Testing latest

    1. Lewis Hamilton 1:23.622 73 laps

    2. Kevin Magnussen 1:23.933 83 laps

    3. Valtteri Bottas 1:24.522 85 laps  

    4. Sebastian Vettel 1:24.611 96 laps

    5. Jenson Button 1:25.183 78 laps

    6. Daniel Ricciardo 1:25.235 72 laps

    7. Carlos Sainz 1:25.300 110 laps

    8. Sergio Perez 1:26.188 94 laps

    9. Pascal Wehrlein 1:27.064 53 laps

    10. Marcus Ericsson 1:27.862 49 laps

    11. Nico Rosberg 1:28.736 34 laps

    Esteban Gutierrez No time 1 lap