The race is on.

Testing is now one third over after day two in Barcelona, and it was Mercedes that proved to be the talk of the town with its trick steering system.

And with another day of running, have we inched closer to a view of the real competitive order?

I'm Ed Sture and joining me to make sense of it all at Gary Anderson and Mark Hughes. Gary, I'm sure

we'll get onto your detailed number crunching in a bit, but do you feel like you've taken a step forward

in your understanding today? No, I suppose it's the quickest way of putting it. I mean, all we can do is look at what's happening and see in the car's running. Today, we had our very first red flag right at the end of the day. And what normally happens with that is people want to try and do a fuel runout test to see the fuel system more works properly. It was just after Kimmy Reckin had done his fastest lap of the day on the very soft tire and two or three laps later or something like you run out of fuel. So I think, I think, you know, why he stopped anyway, whether they run out of fuel or not, I'm not quite sure. But it's, you know, you do do that during testing after it's far. and if you've got any brain at all, you'll do it either just before lunchtime or just before the evening because it means the track gets red flagged

and everybody stops.

But in general, looking at where we've got to, there's a bit

of a variation in tyres and, you know, I have no idea of the fuel loads. I would say, you know,

the top, the professional teams don't normally run very light on fuel because they know they want to do their work.

So 50, 60 kilograms of fuel whenever they're doing runs, as you come down through the range of teams,

I think you might come down to 30 kilograms or something like that.

So, you know, you're not going to get vast differences in it.

So the fuel load, anything we would do, as I did it last night on my report for the first day,

just to show the amount of fuel that it would have taken to have made a difference to last year's times.

That could be again happening, but anything we do would be guessing.

All I've done for today's running is taking yesterday's

tires that were used for their fastest lap for each team today's tires that was used for the fastest

lap and i've calculated that to suit everybody running on the medium tire which is the c3 which is the

majority of cars i've run on that so it's the least least calculations required so the least

fudge factors I suppose you might call it what we're seeing as Mercedes are the fastest racing point are

next and they're 0.7,6 of a percent slower I turn everything 90 percentages because that means we can compare performance around

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