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Leclerc fastest on day two, Gasly crashes

Published on 19 Feb 2019 18:01
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By: Fergal Walsh

Charles Leclerc ended the second day of pre-season testing on top of the timesheets, beating heading the competition by three-tenths of a second.

Leclerc set laps, the most of any driver in the session. Following the Monegasque driver was Lando Norris who ended the day in P2 for McLaren. Third was Magnussen, who was supposed to complete the day with the American squad, but sat out the afternoon session after his team uncovered a seat issue.

Alexander Albon was fourth in the Toro Rosso. The Thai-British driver set 130 laps for the Honda-powered squad, after spinning out on his first out lap this morning. Giovinazzi was fifth for Alfa Romeo.

Valtteri Bottas followed the Italian, as he drove the W10 in the afternoon session. The Finn managed to accumulate 89 laps in the four hours of running.

Pierre Gasly was seventh, heading the two Renaults of Nico Hulkenberg and Daniel Ricciardo. Ricciardo's day ended prematurely when a DRS failure spun him into the gravel in the morning. Ricciardo was able to bring the car back to the garage himself, but his team couldn't repair his car in time before the end of the morning session.

Lewis Hamilton was tenth, ahead of Lance Stroll in the Racing Point car and Pietro Fittipaldi, who stepped in the Haas in the afternoon follwoing Magnussen's seat issue.

Circuit de Catalunya - 19 February 2019

Driver

Team

Time

Difference

#
1

Charles Leclerc

Ferrari

1:18.247

157
2

Lando Norris

McLaren

1:18.553

+0.306

104
3

Kevin Magnussen

Haas F1

1:19.206

+0.959

59
4

Alexander Albon

Toro Rosso

1:19.301

+1.054

132
5

Antonio Giovinazzi

Alfa Romeo Racing

1:19.312

+1.065

101
6

Valtteri Bottas

Mercedes

1:19.535

+1.288

89
7

Pierre Gasly

Red Bull Racing

1:19.814

+1.567

92
8

Nico Hülkenberg

Renault

1:19.837

+1.590

95
9

Daniel Ricciardo

Renault

1:19.886

+1.639

28
10

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

1:19.928

+1.681

74
11

Lance Stroll

Racing Point

1:20.433

+2.186

79
12

Pietro Fittipaldi

Haas F1

1:21.849

+3.602

13

Hepp

Posts: 200

You missed it .... KMag's pain in the Hass

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Feb 19 2019 - 21:33

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calle.itw

Posts: 8,527
Most teams doing fine today again. Doesn't really seem to be that many issues so far, aside from that fuel pressure issue HAAS had the other day, and a few driver related errors.
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- Feb 19 2019 - 18:22
- Hepp
  
  Posts: 200
  You missed it .... KMag's pain in the Hass
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  Feb 19 2019 - 21:33
- calle.itw
  
  Posts: 8,527
  Seems like I did. And my word, that pun was heppnotizing! It just made me heppy! XD
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  Feb 19 2019 - 21:39
Norbert

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I really want to read this article but I physically can't. You should name this font "istrain"
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- Feb 19 2019 - 22:03
Ram Samartha

Posts: 1,172
Everybody looking pretty confident in their cars for the most part. Except WIlliams... Hope they get it together.
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- Feb 19 2019 - 23:49
Ram Samartha

Posts: 1,172
That Ferrari livery starting to grow on me. Still not crazy about the orangy looking matte red but the black highlights kind of look like tiger stripes on that racecar. The picture above of the Toro Rosso heading off into the sunset looks awesome! Some good foto's(sp). Anybody besides me noticing that the replies count above the replies is always wrong?
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- Feb 20 2019 - 00:12
- mcbhargav
  
  Posts: 1,332
  That specific pic is noticeably better on a HDR display.
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  Feb 20 2019 - 02:50