Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Thursday 24 February

Hear from McLaren Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo, and Executive Director, Racing, Andrea Stella after Day 2 of the pre-season test.

Key facts

Drivers	Daniel Ricciardo
Laps/km/miles	126/589km/366 miles
Best laptime	1m20.288s (3rd)

DANIEL RICCIARDO, #3

“A good day from many angles. I think reliability was great. That’s on the team and everyone who’s worked hard to put this car together, so massive thank you to them. They’re pretty awesome to build a whole new car, put it on track and have it run so smoothly, so big thanks to them again. Both days have been over 100 laps, which for me and Lando gives us more opportunity to learn the car and push ourselves, so really pleased with that. We’ve got some good strengths and we just need to keep working on a few of the areas where we can improve.”

ANDREA STELLA, Executive Director, Racing

“Our second day of testing in Barcelona has been very productive. With Daniel in the car today, we were able to put together a lot of laps with no particular problems, either from an operational or a reliability point of view. We’ve completed a series of tests and acquired a lot of information on tyre performance, set-up and aerodynamics. We’re learning more about this new car with each run, and this is helping us extract the most from the MCL36 in preparation for the season ahead.”  

Today's official testing times

1	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:19.689s	79 laps
2	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	1:19.918s	147 laps
3	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	1:20.288s	126 laps
4	George Russell	Mercedes	1:20.537s	66 laps
5	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	1:20.546s	71 laps
6	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	1:20.784s	74 laps
7	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	1:21.430s	78 laps
8	Nikita Mazepin	Haas	1:21.512s	42 laps
9	Alex Albon	Williams	1:21.531s	47 laps
10	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	1:21.885s	71 laps
11	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	1:21.894s	61 laps
12	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	1:21.920s	55 laps
13	Mick Schumacher	Haas	1:21.949s	66 laps
14	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	1:22.164s	125 laps
15	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	1:22.288s	21 laps
16	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:22.562s	40 laps

What's next?

Lando and Daniel will share driving duties tomorrow, with Lando in the car in the AM, and Daniel in the PM.

Test dates

Three days (Wednesday 23 - Friday 25 February 2022). 

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