
Charles Leclerc set the fastest time on the second day of pre-season testing in Barcelona after Daniel Ricciardo was the fastest in the morning in McLaren – Pierre Gasly finished second fastest for AlphaTauri while Lewis Hamilton was the slowest for Mercedes.
Leclerc set his best lap 1:19.689 on C3 Pirelli tyres with 79 laps in total, which with Sainz’s 71 laps from the morning part of the day gives a very good 150 laps for Ferrari, with team also covering the most laps of all teams yesterday.
Gasly finished second fastest with as many as 147 laps, but set his best time on the second softest component of Pirelli tyres (C4) as well as Ricciardo in McLaren who on C4 tyres improved his morning time on the C3 compound by less than a tenth.
In the morning part of the day, Perez drove only 38 laps in a Red Bull RB18 that slowed at the exit from the Turn 12 and stopped with the his powe unit switched off on the way to the Turn 13 which caused a red flag 26 minutes before the lunch break.
The Mexican drove 40 laps in the afternoon and climbed to seventh place on the list of fastest times, but with almost two seconds behind the fastest Leclerc.
Mazepin caused the second red flag of the day when he stopped his Haas VF-22 in the Turn 9 due to a fuel pump malfunction – Russian finished eighth fastest, a tenth behind Perez, after returning to the track after the red flag period.
As a faster Mercedes driver, Russell finished in fourth place ahead of Sainz in Ferrari and Vettel in Aston Martin who is the last drivers to set his best time under 1m21s.
Albon was ninth fastest for Williams ahead of Zhou at Alfa Romeo, who played for the team for the first time, and the Chinese drove 71 laps in his first run in the new C43 and significantly improved Bottas’ contribution of just 21 laps in the morning.
Latifi finished 11th ahead of Stroll and Schumacher while Ocon was 14th fastest for Alpine with an impressive 125 laps, the third highest lap of the second day behind Gasly (147) and Ricciardo (126).
Former Mercedes team-mates Bottas and Hamilton finished in the last two places, and together they clocked only 61 laps, with both driving one half of the second day.
The last day of the test in Barcelona starts tomorrow at 09:00 (GMT+1).
DAY 2 RESULTS
1 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari F1-75 | C3 | 1:19.689 | 79 |
2 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri AT03 | C4 | 1:19.918 | 147 |
3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren MCL36 | C4 | 1:20.288 | 126 |
4 | George Russell | Mercedes F1 W13 | C3 | 1:20.537 | 66 |
5 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari F1-75 | C3 | 1:20.546 | 71 |
6 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin AMR22 | C3 | 1:20.784 | 74 |
7 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull RB18 | C2 | 1:21.430 | 78 |
8 | Nikita Mazepin | Haas VF-22 | C3 | 1:21.512 | 42 |
9 | Alexander Albon | Williams FW44 | C3 | 1:21.531 | 47 |
10 | Guanyu Zhou | Alfa Romeo C42 | C3 | 1:21.885 | 71 |
11 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams FW44 | C3 | 1:21.894 | 61 |
12 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin AMR22 | C2 | 1:21.920 | 55 |
13 | Mick Schumacher | Haas VF-22 | C3 | 1:21.949 | 66 |
14 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine A522 | C3 | 1:22.164 | 125 |
15 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo C42 | C3 | 1:22.288 | 21 |
16 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes F1 W13 | C2 | 1:22.562 | 40 |
TOTAL LAPS – TEAMS
1 | Ferrari | 303 |
2 | AlphaTauri | 268 |
3 | Alpine | 254 |
4 | Aston Martin | 248 |
5 | Williams | 240 |
6 | Mercedes | 233 |
7 | McLaren | 229 |
8 | Red Bull | 225 |
9 | Haas | 151 |
10 | Alfa Romeo | 124 |
TOTAL LAPS – ENGINE MANUFACTURERS
1 | Mercedes | 950 |
2 | Ferrari | 578 |
3 | Red Bull | 493 |
4 | Renault | 254 |
LAPS – ENGINE MANUFACTURERS