Barcelona Test 2: Day 2 "We gained a good understanding of the car, both alone on track and following other cars"
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.”
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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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