Sebastian Vettel stole a march on the field through the morning session of the penultimate day of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Barcelona, blitzing the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya track record as Ferrari turned up the wick. Vettel completed a number of fast hypersoft tyre runs towards the end of the morning session, recording a fastest lap time of 1:17.182 to comfortably record the best time of pre-season testing so far and finish over one second clear of the field. Mercedes did not opt to match Ferrari's programme, with Valtteri Bottas instead focusing on long runs en route to seventh place, racking up 93 laps in total. He will hand over to teammate Lewis Hamilton for the afternoon....
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