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Barcelona Test: Vettel tops opening day

Two days after Max Verstappen became the youngest ever grand prix with victory in the Spanish Grand Prix, Formula One action resumed at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel topping the timesheet as the first in-season test of 2016 got underway. Vettel finished third in last weekend’s race but the German and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen lost out to Red Bull Racing driver Verstappen and today Ferrari sought to explore the reasons behind the defeat. Across a busy day Vettel got through 103 laps as he replicated race and qualifying conditions from the weekend. His quickest lap of the day, a 1:23.220 set on soft tyres, came in the afternoon session, as he worked...
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