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Barcelona Day 6: Ricciardo tops as pace hots up

Day six of Formula 1 preseason witnessed drivers unleashing the true performance within their respective cars on an intriguing day in which Daniel Ricciardo showed Red Bull’s pace by lapping the Circuit de Catalunya faster than anyone since the track was reconfigured in 2007. Overnight all the teams found an extra two seconds around the Spanish Grand Prix venue but it was Ricciardo, at the wheel of the Red Bull RB14, who set the best lap time of 1:18.407, set using the Pirelli hypersoft compound tyres, which was the best of all on a day in which he racked up 165 laps. The time lit up the timing screens and was more than a second quicker than Lewis Hamilton’s 2017 Spanish Grand Prix...
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