Alfa Romeo reserve driver Robert Kubica retained the top spot on the timesheets at the end of the first day of the second pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Kubica had been fastest in the morning with a best time of 1:16.942s on the softest C5 compound after completing a total of 53 laps. It left him over half a second clear of AlphaTauri's Pierre Gasly and Red Bull's Alexander Albon before lunch. Kubica took no further part in the day's proceedings, as he handed over the C39 to Kimi Raikkonen. The other teams adopted a similar driver swap strategy with the exception of Haas, where Romain Grosjean ran the full day. It was a quiet start to the afternoon, and it wasn't...
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