Norris on McLaren test duty for two days in Barcelona

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McLaren reserve driver Lando Norris will be at the wheel of the MCL33 for two days of testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this month.

"Super-haps to be back testing with McLaren F1 for both days of the Barcelona test," he tweeted on Thursday.

The first in-season test of 2018 is scheduled to get underway on Tuesday, May 15 following the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.

Norris will spend the first day of testing conducting runs for Pirelli. It's one of the team's designated tyre development outings, meaning that they get to run two cars on track at the same time.

The team's full-time race driver Stoffel Vandoorne will run the other car for the day. He'll then step down and leave the keys for Norris on Wednesday.

The Pirelli development work will be transferred from Norris to Oliver Turvey for the second day of running.

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Norris will already be at the venue, as he is competing in the Formula 2 support races at the weekend.

The 18-year-old currently leads the championship following victory in the opening round in Bahrain. He's finished in the points in all four races of the season with Carlin. He missed out on a possible win in Baku after being forced wide into a run-off while fighting toward the front of the field.

Norris last took Mclaren's F1 car out for a drive last November in the post-season test at Abu Dhabi.

Force India has also announced which drivers wil be in action for them at the test.

The team will be fielding the VJM11 for their reserve driver Nicholas Latifi on Tuesday, and for development driver Nikita Mazepin on Wednesday.

Mercedes junior George Russell will run in a second car and conduct tyre development for Pirelli. Like Norris, Russell is competing in his first year in Formula 2 and picked up his maiden win in Sunday's hard-fought sprint race in Baku.

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.