Hamilton is, however, the first to register a time (1:28.394) but immediately improves to a 1:21.011. He’s immediately followed by Ocon and Vettel, whose engineers have fixed the damage sustained by Raikkonen’s crash yesterday overnight. The Morningĩ:00: As the sun is rising, the track is warming, and when the clock hits 9 o’clock, Palmer is the first to head out once the lights turn green. For yesterday’s post detailing day 6, click here, while day 5 is available here. For the recap and analysis of week 1, as well as the predictions I made for this second week, you can click here. If you want to know more detail about these pre-season tests, or want to know the importance of it, feel free to read this post first. This post will detail the goings-on at the Circuit de Montmelo for the third day of the second week of testing, taking place on March 9th, 2017. In these series of posts, I will transcribe the most important stuff happening on track during the testing sessions for the upcoming 2017 season on an hourly basis, and follow it up with an analysis based on 2016 testing results. As the 2017 Formula 1 season draws near, many fans flock to F1-related pages in order to keep up with the latest developments as teams test their new cars before the season starts officially on March 24th, 12:00h local time in Melbourne, Australia – when the lights for the first free practice session of the Australian Grand Prix turn green.
