F1 Pre-Season Testing 2015: Times, News and Reports from Day 2 in Barcelona

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Published: February 20, 2015

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A busy Day 2 in Catalunya saw Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo come out with the fastest time on Friday, edging Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen by 0.01 seconds while Lewis Hamilton made his return from illness.

Red Bull were running a race simulation for the Spanish Grand Prix and recorded a magnificent 143 laps in the RB11, with Ricciardo managing a fastest lap of one minute and 24.574 seconds. 

Both Ricciardo and Raikkonen clocked their best times on soft tyres, with the latter also experimenting with mediums during the closing phases of his Friday outing.

Here's the full time sheet for the second day of testing, courtesy of Sky Sports:



Fernando Alonso was unable to break the 1:25.000 mark and was one of the last cars remaining on the track at the close of the session, with William Esler of Sky Sports quoting Mclaren director Eric Boullier:



That being said, Boullier said the team was merely happy to get their programming back on track and give some laps to Alonso, per Sky Sports:

It is good to finally put some laps on the board and get the programme back over the boundary – we have actually done more things today then we were expecting. So we are catching up on our programme.

I am happy with what we are doing, we are not looking for performance as we have a long list of system checks. Our aero plan has been done today in full and we have been doing some set up work on the car for the first to understand how the car is reacting and so far so good.

Raikkonen led Ferrari on another fast day of action as they go about their campaign to challenge Mercedes in 2015, with hopes looking high for the Finn this year.

Ferrari team principal Maurizio Arrivabene feels 2015 will produce "a new Raikkonen," quoted by Ben Anderson and Lawrence Barretto of Autosport as saying on Friday:

He had his problems [last year]. Problems beca...
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