Summary

  • Penultimate day of pre-season testing

  • Kimi Raikkonen fastest at lunch

  • Ferrari test new head protection

  • Get involved #ThingsKimiFindsOK

  1. Get involved #ThingsKimiFindsOKpublished at 14:45 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    I actually hate that. Does that make me history's greatest monster?

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    Felipe Massa is on his second run on the soft tyres and he goes second with a 1:23.193.

    Meanwhile, Toro Rosso are once again piling on the laps as Max Verstappen completes his 103rd circuit of the track. Impressive mileage from Toro Rosso in testing.

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  5. Postpublished at 14:29 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    Race simulation also on the cards for McLaren...

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    Lewis Hamilton shaves a bit off his best time for the day, lapping in 1:27.536. It's not enough to shift him off the bottom of the timesheet, but fast laps isn't what he is after at the moment.

    Kimi Raikkonen, on a race simulation, completes his 71st lap of the day. That's 30 for the afternoon.

  8. Get involved #ThingsKimiFindsOKpublished at 14:15 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

  9. Postpublished at 14:14 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    Romain Grosjean's Haas has been recovered so the track is open. Lewis Hamilton, Felipe Massa and Max Verstappen crack straight on with resuming their programme.

  10. Testing latestpublished at 14:08 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    1. Kimi Raikkonen 1:22.765 63 laps

    2. Nico Hulkenberg 1:23.251 78 laps

    3. Max Verstappen 1:23.382 82 laps

    4. Nico Rosberg 1:24.126 81 laps

    5. Felipe Nasr 1:24.760 57 laps

    6. Fernando Alonso 1:24.870 66 laps

    7. Pascal Wehrlein 1:51.101 30 laps

    8. Daniil Kvyat 1:25.141 63 laps

    9. Felipe Massa 1:25.420 67 laps

    10. Jolyon Palmer 1:27.182 26 laps

    11. Romain Grosjean 1:27.196 66 laps

    12. Lewis Hamilton 1:29.323 5 laps

  11. Postpublished at 14:05 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    Not long before that spin, Romain Grosjean had recorded a personal best on soft tyre with 1:27.196. He had just completed a race distance as well.

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    F1

    F1 journalist Dan Knutson in Barcelona: "It takes a vast number of trucks to transport the Formula 1 circus around Europe. 

    "There are those that are in the paddock (in the foreground), and many more besides. The transporters in the background are in the Support Paddock where the GP2, GP3 and Porsche teams are during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend. So on the race weekend all those trucks need to be parked somewhere else.

    "No doubt Kimi is OK with all this because the trucks bring the race cars and equipment to the race track so he can do what he likes to do best: race."

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    Red flagpublished at 13:56 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    Another red flag, and it is once again for the Haas of Romain Grosjean. He spins Turn 1 and is into the gravel.

  16. Postpublished at 13:55 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    Lewis Hamilton is indeed out. Mercedes have sent their drivers out to do race sims in the afternoon of the last two days, more of the same today? He starts the afternoon with 1:29.323.  

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  18. Get involved ThingsKimiFindsOKpublished at 13:42 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

  19. Postpublished at 13:40 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016

    Jenson Button was in the McLaren yesterday and he was full of praise for Honda, saying they have solved the recovered energy deployment problems that plagued them last year.

    "The progress is massive in that area,” he said. “At some circuits last year, in the race we were losing six tenths every lap because we didn’t have deployment. Now the system’s working well and from here on it’s marginal gains compared to our competitors. So it’s a good step forward and a necessary step forward.

    “In qualifying we lost probably one or two tenths because we couldn’t deploy through a whole quali lap and now we can easily.”

    As for the final two days of testing, Button says it will be all about getting as much time as possible in the car, adding: "The next two days are very important - we need two clean days, lots of laps, and lots of time on new tyres to really get a good feel for the car because we’re not there yet.”

  20. Postpublished at 13:29 Greenwich Mean Time 3 March 2016