BARCLEONA, Spain — Daniel Ricciardo set the fastest time on the second morning of preseason testing to keep his McLaren team at the top of timesheets at the Circuit de Catalunya.
The test in Spain marks the dawn of a new era in Formula One as all ten teams get to grips with completely revised cars built to new regulations. The aim of the rules is to increase the chances of overtaking but the teams have two preseason tests to understand their cars before going wheel-to-wheel at the first race of the season in Bahrain on March 20.
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Ricciardo’s teammate Lando Norris set the pace on the opening day with a 1:19.568 using the C4 compound tyre and Ricciardo followed up with a 1:20.355 on the harder C3 compound on Thursday morning.
The times remain rather meaningless at this stage of testing — they are still over three seconds shy of the qualifying lap record at the same circuit — but for what it’s worth, Ferrari was second fastest for the second day in a row, with Carlos Sainz…
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