Vettel one second faster than yesterday

Sebastian Vettel the fastest racer the first day, was also the fastest in the morning part of the second day. The German, who switched from Red Bull to Ferrari this year, was almost a second faster than his lap time yesterday.

His time yesterday was surpassed only by Mercedes racer Lewis Hamilton, who again led in the number of laps.

In the morning on the track prvič also drove the Lotus E23 race cardriven by Pastor Maldonado. The Venezuelan drove a few laps, which was more than they were able to take at Red Bull after a mistake by Daniil Kvyat, and after new technical problems at McLaren.

Kvyat damaged the front wings of the car, therefore, the test day continues without it, as the team did not have a spare.

McLaren as well as Honda hoped to be today managed to make up for the time, who lost him yesterday when Fernando Alonso drove just 6 laps all day. But even Jenson Button didn't have much more luck, as he drove only five laps this morning with an Mp4-30 race car, whose sound of a Honda engine was not real. His time was a whopping 33 seconds worse than the fastest, and the team confirmed that they were struggling with “recurring problems”.

 

Morning times and number of laps:

	Racer	The team	Hour	The difference	Circles
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m20.984s	-	31
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m22.490s	1.506s	73
3	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso / Renault	1m24.167s	3.183s	43
4	Luiz Felipe Nasr	Sauber / Ferrari	1m24.338s	3.354s	49
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams / Mercedes	1m24.923s	3.939s	24
6	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus / Mercedes	1m27.363s	6.379s	13
7	Jenson Button	McLaren / Honda	1m54.655s	33.671s	5
8	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull / Renault	-	-	7

 

Photos: Ferrari