The Scuderia AlphaTauri team had to overcome some issues that curtailed their testing programme on day one of the second pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain today. Daniil Kvyat posted the fourth best lap time of 1m 17.456s at the end of the day before he stopped on the track as he ran out of fuel. Pierre Gasly was fifth on the time charts, just 0.084 seconds behind Kvyat. Gasly was able to complete 25 laps as he lost three hours of testing due to a reliability issue in the morning session. The team then decided to change the testing plan and concentrate on shorter runs on the soft compound tyres, Gasly speaking on the curtailed session said: “We had a little...
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