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Sebastian Vettel sets new quickest time to keep Ferrari on top

Sebastian Vettel underlined Ferrari’s pace as he set the quickest time of pre-season testing during the final morning of action at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Ostensibly mirroring the approach taken by Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc on Thursday, Vettel put in a sequence of rapid efforts on Pirelli’s C5 tyre during the build-up to the lunch break. Vettel worked his way down to a 1:16.221, 0.010s faster than Leclerc’s Thursday benchmark, and just 0.051s behind the track record, set by Lewis Hamilton at last year’s Spanish Grand Prix. Valtteri Bottas also used the C5 tyres to post his and Mercedes’ best time of testing, though he wound up 0.340s behind...
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