Ricciard the fastest time of the second day

On the second day of testing in Barcelona, ​​Daniel Ricciardo found himself at the top of the tables. The Red Bull racer drove the lap on soft tires in 1: 24.574, which was only 0.010 seconds faster than the second fastest time set by Kimi Raikkonen on the same tire mix.

Ricciardo drove a 66-lap race simulation during which he used both a soft and a hard mix of tires.

Felipe Massa in Williams, who was the third fastest to date, also reached his fastest time with a soft mix.

Fourth was Sergio Perez in Force India’s race car last year. Lewis Hamilton returned to the wheel of a Mercedes after yesterday's problems, replacing Nic Rosberg after a few laps, who sang a few laps despite neck problems, and then interrupted the test day to recover from the inflammation of the cervical nerve as soon as possible.

Hamilton was fifth at the end of the day, with a six-tenth better time than Rosberg. Both racers together made sure that Mercedes drove the most laps today.

Fernando Alonso managed to collect more than 50 laps with McLarn in shorter sets after the team faced new problems on Honda’s powertrain yesterday.

The current champion of the GP2 series, Jolyon Palmer, took good advantage of the opportunity in the Lotus race car. He drove another length of the race and gained important experience.

The slowest were Marcus Ericsson in Sauber and rookie Carlos Sainz. Both took care to stop testing in the afternoon. Sainz and Toro Ross flew off the track and stopped in the sand.

 

	Racer	Team	Hour	Circles
1.	D. Ricciardo	Red Bull	01:24.574	143
2.	K. Raikkonen	Ferrari	01:24.584	90
3.	F. Massa	Williams	01:24.672	88
4.	S. Perez	Force India F1	01:24.702	121
5.	L. Hamilton	Mercedes Grand Prix	01:24.923	89
6.	N. Rosberg	Mercedes Grand Prix	01:25.556	66
7.	F. Alonso	McLaren	01:25.961	59
8.	J.Palmer	Lotus F1 Team	01:26.280	77
9.	M. Ericsson	Clean	01:27.334	113
10.	C. Sainz Jr.	Scuderia Toro Rosso	01:28.945	100