Summary

  • Final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain

  • Max Verstappen improves lap time to go quickest once again

  • Ferrari's Charles Leclerc tops morning running

  • Broken glass on start-finish line and bus in run-off area cause red flags

  • Oliver Bearman forced to pit after losing part of Haas engine cover

  • Verstappen in car all day for Red Bull

  • Season-opening Australian Grand Prix takes place 14-16 March

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  1. Postpublished at 13:27 Greenwich Mean Time

    Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton is back out on the track and putting in the laps. He's on a new set of medium tyres.

    Max Verstappen is back in the Red Bull garage.

  2. Postpublished at 13:22 Greenwich Mean Time

    Max Verstappen and Alex Albon are the two drivers out on the track.

    They're both running a full day of testing.

  3. Top five times so farpublished at 13:20 Greenwich Mean Time

    1. Pierre Gasly (Alpine) - 1:30.040

    2. George Russell (Mercedes) +0.014

    3. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) +0.561

    4. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) +0.771

    5. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) +0.787

  4. Postpublished at 13:16 Greenwich Mean Time

    Max Verstappen is back out on the track, it's not a great lap for the Red Bull driver and he looks like he's shaking his head. He goes for another lap.

  5. Postpublished at 13:14 Greenwich Mean Time

    Lance Stroll comes in for an Aston Martin pitstop, Yuki Tsunoda's car is having work done to it in the Racing Bulls garage.

    Pierre Gasly is on a fast lap and jumps back to the top spot, it's a 1:30.040 for him.

  6. Laps completedpublished at 13:11 Greenwich Mean Time

    Oscar Piastri (McLaren) - 12

    Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) - 15

    George Russell (Mercedes) - 20

    Max Verstappen (Red Bull)* - 47

    Yuki Tsunoda (Racing Bulls) - 26

    Pierre Gasly (Alpine) - 18

    Alex Albon (Williams)* - 77

    Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) - 13

    Esteban Ocon (Haas) - 24

    Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber) - 15

    *All day

  7. Postpublished at 13:09 Greenwich Mean Time

    Four-time world champion Max Verstappen is getting ready to head out for his afternoon session.

    Lewis Hamilton sets personal best times in all three sectors and jumps up to P3, his lap time is 1:30.601.

  8. Postpublished at 13:06 Greenwich Mean Time

    George Russell has paid a visit to the Mercedes pit and got himself a set of new medium tyres.

    Oscar Piastri has set a lap time and is 11th fastest, he's clocked in 10 laps.

  9. Team radio - Tsunodapublished at 13:04 Greenwich Mean Time

    Engineer: "Wind has picked up"

    Tsunoda: "Yeah wind has picked up a lot"

  10. Postpublished at 13:01 Greenwich Mean Time

    George Russell is on a flying lap, can he go faster than Pierre Gasly?

    Yes, he can. It's a 1:30.054 for him.

    At the Red Bull garage, Max Verstappen's car has been raised and there's engineers all around the car.

  11. Postpublished at 12:54 Greenwich Mean Time

    Pierre Gasly sets the fastest time overall in sector one and two.

    Lewis Hamilton runs wide into turn five.

    George Russell and Nico Hulkeberg get a little too close out on track but there is no contact.

  12. Postpublished at 12:51 Greenwich Mean Time

    The Ferrari and Mercedes are now back in the pitlane.

    Esteban Ocon has been putting in the laps in his Haas and goes up to the sixth spot. His lap time is 1:31.199.

  13. Postpublished at 12:48 Greenwich Mean Time

    Lewis Hamilton has set his personal bests in all three sectors. It's not fast enough to top Pierre Gasly's time. He stays out on the track.

    His former teammate George Russell has just done a flying lap in the Mercedes and goes third fastest, three tenths behind Gasly.

  14. Hamilton 'really enjoying' new Ferraripublished at 12:46 Greenwich Mean Time

    Andrew Benson
    BBC F1 correspondent

    Lewis HamiltonImage source, Getty Images

    Lewis Hamilton said he was "really enjoying" his new Ferrari as he set the second-fastest time on day two of pre-season testing in Bahrain.

    The seven-time champion, who has moved to the Italian team this year after 12 seasons with Mercedes, was pipped to fastest lap by 0.031 seconds by Williams' Carlos Sainz.

    Hamilton said: "I am really enjoying the car. We're slowly bonding. Yesterday was a so-so day, just OK. But we got through all our run-plan. I was not doing set-up changes or directing where I want the car to go.

    "Today was a bit more getting to explore a bit my interaction with my engineer."

  15. Postpublished at 12:43 Greenwich Mean Time

    Alex Albon has hopped back into his Williams seat. 59 laps for him so far from the morning session.

  16. Postpublished at 12:39 Greenwich Mean Time

    Haas' Esteban Ocon has been out on the track and heads back into the garage.

    Racing Bulls Yuki Tsunoda is also back in the pitlane.

    McLaren man Oscar Piastri heads out for his first lap of the session.

  17. Postpublished at 12:35 Greenwich Mean Time

    Lance Stroll has just joined the track.

    Meanwhile, that Alpine is rapid. Pierre Gasly has just gone fastest again and improves his lap time to 1:30.459.

  18. Laps completedpublished at 12:33 Greenwich Mean Time

    Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) - 7

    George Russell (Mercedes) - 9

    Max Verstappen (Red Bull)* - 47

    Yuki Tsunoda (Racing Bulls) - 7

    Pierre Gasly (Alpine) - 12

    Alex Albon (Williams)* - 58

    Esteban Ocon (Haas) - 12

    Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber) - 3

    *All day

  19. Postpublished at 12:30 Greenwich Mean Time

    Our full day testers Max Verstappen and Alex Albon haven't started their afternoon session yet.

    Let's have a look at the laps completed so far.

  20. Gasly fastest overallpublished at 12:27 Greenwich Mean Time

    Pierre Gasly was on a flying lap and what time did he clock in?

    1:30.657, the fastest overall on day three.