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Ricciardo tops first day of wet Pirelli test

Daniel Ricciardo was quickest on the opening day of Pirelli’s wet weather test at Paul Ricard in France on Monday – even though the final times ultimately meant very little. The Red Bull driver, whose only issue was a transponder glitch that meant many of his laps were not recorded, ended up four tenths of a second ahead of Stoffel Vandoorne, with Kimi Raikkonen another half a second back. The trio, who were the only drivers present for the Pirelli test, spent their day conducting 10-lap runs to help evaluate prototype designs of wet rubber. Pirelli’s focus in the test has been on its more extreme wet weather rubber, rather than the intermediate specification. Teams were not allowed...
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