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Kvyat tops day three of Barcelona testing

Published on 20 Feb 2019 18:00
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By: Fergal Walsh

Daniil Kvyat has topped the third day of pre-season testing from Barcelona, setting a 1:17.704 in the final minutes of the session.

Kimi Raikkonen was the longtime session leader, as his time from the morning session was only beaten by the Russian. The Iceman ended the session in second place, just over half a tenth down on Toro Rosso driver.

Daniel Ricciardo was third for Renault, and had a bit more of a successful day as he managed to clock 80 laps in the R.S. 19 - the most he has done so far this week.

Sebastian Vettel followed in fourth place, making it the first time since pre-season testing started on Monday that a Ferrari failed to top a session. Max Verstappen was fifth for Red Bull, as it did most of its running in the afternoon session.

Nico Hulkenberg was sixth, followed by Romain Grosjean in a Haas that broke down three times throughout the day - twice when Grosjean was in the car and once when Fittipaldi was behind the wheel.

Williams managed to get testing, with George Russell setting 23 laps in the afternoon. His fastest time was five seconds away from his nearest competitor, however.

Mercedes clocked up a massive 182 laps throughout the day, with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton splitting duties.

Circuit de Catalunya - 20 February 2019

Driver

Team

Time

Difference

#
1

Daniil Kvyat

Toro Rosso

1:17.704

137
2

Kimi Räikkönen

Alfa Romeo Racing

1:17.762

+0.058

138
3

Daniel Ricciardo

Renault

1:18.164

+0.460

80
4

Sebastian Vettel

Ferrari

1:18.350

+0.646

134
5

Max Verstappen

Red Bull Racing

1:18.787

+1.083

109
6

Nico Hülkenberg

Renault

1:18.800

+1.096

63
7

Romain Grosjean

Haas F1

1:19.060

+1.356

69
8

Pietro Fittipaldi

Haas F1

1:19.249

+1.545

48
9

Carlos Sainz jr

McLaren

1:19.354

+1.650

90
10

Sergio Perez

Racing Point

1:20.102

+2.398

67
11

Valtteri Bottas

Mercedes

1:20.693

+2.989

88
12

Lewis Hamilton

Mercedes

1:20.818

+3.114

94
13

George Russell

Williams

1:25.625

+7.921

23
14

Robert Kubica

Williams

no time

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RogerF1

Posts: 501

Would make for a fun season if Merc were down at the bottom mixing it with Williams. Here’s hoping.

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Feb 21 2019 - 00:07

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Replies (4)

Ram Samartha

Posts: 1,172
Not bad for 1st week of testing considering Hammies smoking qualy lap of 1:16.173 last year.
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- Feb 20 2019 - 18:28
calle.itw

Posts: 8,527
Good showing from Honda again, and Alfa again looks pretty handy. If this is at all representative, we could actually see Alfa going past Haas this year. Meanwhile, Williams puts the W in Winnot.
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- Feb 20 2019 - 19:33
RogerF1

Posts: 501
Would make for a fun season if Merc were down at the bottom mixing it with Williams. Here’s hoping.
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- Feb 21 2019 - 00:07
- siggy74
  
  Posts: 194
  More likely sandbagging ;p
  Running higher fuel loads, to hide the true performance of the car
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  Feb 21 2019 - 07:51