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Barcelona Test 2: Day 2

7 March 2023 16:05 (UTC)

BARCELONA TEST 2: DAY 2

"We gained a good understanding of the car, both alone on track and following other cars"

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DAY TWO OVERVIEW 

Date

Thursday 27 February 2020

Driver

Lando Norris

Location

Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (4.655km/2.892 miles) 

Laps/km/miles

 113 laps/526km/327 miles

Best laptime

 1m17.573s

LANDO NORRIS, #4

“I’m happy with the day. We did a lot of laps, a lot of short runs and almost a full race run. We gained a good understanding of the car, both alone on track and following other cars – a bit of a mix really, which is usual at testing.

“It was a decent way to end the pre-season for me, giving us a good understanding of the areas to work on as we prepare for Australia.”

JAMES KEY, Technical Director

“A full day today with Lando and a different approach compared to the other days of testing. We introduced and tested some further developments today, but beyond that we began to explore the performance of the car and complete some set-up work with Lando before the start of the season. That all worked as planned and gave us some interesting and important information. We look forward to doing the same with Carlos tomorrow.

“This afternoon we did some longer runs which gave us some more information on the car at race fuel levels, which was good practice for Lando on his last day before we hit Melbourne.”

TODAY'S OFFICIAL TESTING TIMES

1

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

1:16.841s 

145 laps 

2

Pierre Gasly

AlphaTauri 

1:17.066s 

139 laps 

3

Lance Stroll

Racing Point

1:17.118s 

130 laps 

4

Nicholas Latifi

Williams

1:17.313s 

160 laps 

5

Lando Norris

McLaren

1:17.573s 

113 laps 

6

Max Verstappen

Red Bull Racing

1:17.738s 

31 laps 

7

Valtteri Bottas

Mercedes

1:17.985s 

47 laps 

8

Esteban Ocon

Renault

1:18.013s 

37 laps 

9

Kevin Magnussen

Haas

1:18.225s 

111 laps 

10

Alex Albon

Red Bull Racing

1:18.393s 

61 laps 

11

Daniel Ricciardo

Renault

1:18.395s 

59 laps 

12

Antonio Giovinazzi

Alfa Romeo

1:19.670s 

92 laps 

13

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

1:22.425s 

14 laps 

WHAT'S NEXT?

Carlos will complete the final day of pre-season testing tomorrow, before the team heads back to the factory and starts final preparations for the Australian Grand Prix.

TEST DATES

Three days (Wednesday 26 – Friday 28 February 2020). 

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