F1 Pre-Season Test Barcelona Day 2 … Valuable running for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team on day two of the pre-season track sessions


 

Montmelò, 24 February, 2022

Lewis was in the cockpit for the morning session today in Barcelona, clocking up 40 laps of set-up learning before his session was curtailed by a sensor issue. George got to work in the afternoon, completing a number of test procedures and continuing to further our understanding of the harder tyre compounds.


Andrew Shovlin, Trackside Engineering Director

"We had a difficult morning with Lewis, experiencing a data logging issue that delayed our start and in general, we were struggling a bit more with the balance. Some of that may have been setup items that we were trying and some of it the harder tyres that we were running today. We managed to get a few runs completed then unfortunately had a sensor issue that prevented us doing further performance work so we stopped early for lunch in order to fix it. 

George had a more productive session in the afternoon and we got through some useful setup scans and completed some of our tyre programme. We’ve still got plenty of issues to work on from a performance point of view but we are continuing to learn with every run which in turn will make us faster. We’ve got a busy day planned for tomorrow, plenty more setup work and a first look at some of the softer rubber compounds for this year."

 

OA

Driver

Best lap time

Laps

1

Charles Leclerc

1:19.689

79

2

Pierre Gasly

1:19.918

147

3

Daniel Ricciardo

1:20.288

126

4

George Russell

1:20.537

66

5

Carlos Sainz

1:20.546

71

6

Sebastian Vettel

1:20.784

74

7

Sergio Perez

1:21.430

78

8

Alex Albon

1:21.531

47

9

Guanyu Zhou

1:22.885

71

10

Nicholas Latifi

1:21.894

61

11

Lance Stroll

1:21.920

55

12

Mick Schumacher

1:21.949

66

13

Esteban Ocon

1:22.164

125

14

Valtteri Bottas

1:22.288

21

15

Lewis Hamilton

1:22.562

40