MONTMELO (Ekstra Bladet): First day behind the wheel on the VF19’eren for Kevin Magnussen flow is anything but smooth.
the First lap was over an hour delayed due to a technical problem, as the engine was to be started.
in the afternoon there was early work for the Danish racing driver. The seat in the car should be adjusted, because he was wrong without a clear view over the edge of the cockpit.
So the team had to put testkøreren Pietro Fittipaldi to the last in order to utilize the limited course time.
Kevin Magnussen reached ‘only’ 59 laps, where the target was a three-digit number. Not least after it was only 65 laps to teamkammeraten Romain Grosjean on the first testdag.
Problems with the seat meant that Kevin Magnussen had to hold the end of the day an hour and a half early. Photo: Jan Sommer
along the Way took note of Haas’ dane for tredjehurtigste time, at a time when the focus of the teams is on everything else than to put a single quick task together.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc topped the times, but enough so impressive was the reliability of the italians – he did 157 laps.
For the second day in a row squeezed the McLaren into second place. With a gloryrun to last on the soft tyres was the british rookie the closest to the Ferrari.
Kevin Magnussen and Haas didn’t run as many laps as they had imagined. Photo: Jan Sommer
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the day’s biggest drama was a small crash from Pierre Gasly, as he for the first time began to push the car and was on the way to his personal best for the day.
It also completed the Red Bull’s day early, but it had the frenchman reached 92 laps, and the accident was not serious.
Wednesday sitting the test driver Pietro Fittipaldi in the car for Haas in the morning, before Romain Grosjean takes over after lunch.
F1 vintertest – day two
Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1.18,247 minutes – 157 laps
Lando Norris (McLaren) 1.18,553 minutes – 104 laps
Kevin Magnussen (Haas) 1.19,206 minutes – 59 laps
Alexander Albon (Toro Rosso) 1.19,301 minutes – 132 laps
Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) 1.19,312 minutes – 101 laps
Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) 1.19,535 minutes – 89 laps
Pierre Gasly (Red Bull) 1.19,814 minutes – 92 laps
Nico Hülkenberg (Renault) 1.19,837 – 95 laps
Daniel Ricciardo (Renault) 1.19,886 minutes – 28 laps
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) 1.19.928 minutes – 74 laps
Lance Stroll (Racing Points) 1.20,433 minutes – 79 laps
Pietro Fittipaldi (Haas) 1.21,849 minutes – 13 laps
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