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Ricciardo breaks Barcelona record

Daniel Ricciardo showed Red Bull's pace on Wednesday by lapping Barcelona's Formula One circuit faster than anyone since the track was reconfigured in 2007. The Australian's time of one minute 18.047 seconds on the new hypersoft Pirelli tyres lit up the timing screens on the second day of the final pre-season test at the Circuit de Catalunya. The time was more than a second quicker than Lewis Hamilton's 2017 Spanish Grand Prix pole position of 1:19.149 for Mercedes, and also quicker than any lap in last year's winter testing. Track records set in testing are deemed unofficial. Four-time world champion Hamilton, who was fastest last week, was second on the timesheets with a lap 0.043...
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