Mercedes won the first pre-season trial in Barcelona on last morning, with new arrival George Russell setting the pace.
During Friday morning’s test at the Circuit of Barcelona-Catalunya, George Russell of Mercedes got the best lap.
Russell set a new lap record of 1:19.233 on the Soft C5 tyre, putting him half a second ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who was running on the Medium C3s.
Fernando Alonso, Pierre Gasly, and Guanyu Zhou were all involved in incidents, which raised multiple red flags.
Below are the complete times and tyre compositions.
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