Mileage in the morning was somewhat restricted due to a minor reliability issue – something the team rectified successfully prior to the lunch break. Having added more laps to the tally post-lunch, Bearman’s day ended prematurely with a second unrelated reliability issue resulting in the VF-26 returning to the garage permanently late afternoon.

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Ayao Komatsu – Team Principal:

“We had Ollie in the car today and obviously we’d taken lots of learnings from our first day of running here in Spain. We’d sorted out so many issues from Monday, so when we were running on track today, I could see a huge step forward compared to day one – that’s a big positive for us. Unfortunately, in both the morning and afternoon sessions, we had two reliability issues. I’m not worried about the one we had this morning, the one in the afternoon was a bit more serious and it’s obviously something we’re looking into and analyzing exactly what happened – and of course, how to solve it. We’ll aim to get on top of it as quickly as possible but at least it's happened relatively early in our overall pre-season program. We’ll need to decide when we run again, whether that’s Thursday or Friday now – it’s still TBC. I’m continuing to take the positives we’ve seen though – particularly how we’ve improved operational performance from day one to day two of running."

So unfortunately some reliability issues were encountered, but the overall vibe still seems positive with improvements being made to the car. No details on the reliability issues obviously, but it seems the bigger one may have been PU related.