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Barcelona F1 test: Vettel flies, Vandoorne stops twice
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel set the fastest lap so far in Formula 1 pre-season testing on the penultimate morning at Barcelona, as McLaren breakdowns caused two red flags. Vettel became the first driver to break the 1m20s barrier on Thursday when he set a 1m19.341s on soft tyres, coming within 0.031s of the winter benchmark established by Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas on Wednesday. At the start of the final hour, Vettel edged even closer to the Finn's best with a set of supersofts, falling short by just 0.004s – despite clearly backing off along the start/finish straight. The Ferrari man continued to sandbag in the final sector on his subsequent runs using ultrasofts, which came after...
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