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NUMBERS, DRIVERS & TEAMS FOR THE 2016 SEASON :

44 L. Hamilton GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team
6 N. Rosberg GER Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team

5 S. Vettel GER Scuderia Ferrari
7 K. Raikkonen FIN Scuderia Ferrari

19 F. Massa BRA Williams Martini Racing
77 V. Bottas FIN Williams Martini Racing

3 D. Ricciardo AUS Red Bull Racing
26 D. Kvyat RUS Red Bull Racing

11 S. Perez MEX Sahara Force India F1 Team
27 N. Hulkenberg GER Sahara Force India F1 Team

14 F. Alonso ESP McLaren Honda
22 J. Button GBR McLaren Honda

9 M. Ericsson SWE Sauber F1 Team
12 F. Nasr BRA Sauber F1 Team

55 C. Sainz jr. ESP Scuderia Toro Rosso
33 M. Verstappen NED Scuderia Toro Rosso

8 R. Grosjean FRA Haas F1 Team
21 E. Gutierrez MEX Haas F1 Team

30 J. Palmer GBR Renault Sport Formula One Team
20 K. Magnussen DEN Renault Sport Formula One Team

94 P. Wehrlein GER Manor Marussia F1
88 R. Haryanto INA Manor Marussia F1

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Barcelona F1 test week 2 : Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari end wintertest on top :

Sebastian Vettel concluded Formula 1 pre-season testing as he started it, by posting the quickest time for Ferrari. Of his four days overall in the SF16-H, Vettel topped the Barcelona timesheet on three occasions. With team-mate Kimi Raikkonen leading the way on two of his four outings, it means Ferrari was fastest on five of the eight days overall. On the Friday of the second test, Vettel's lap of 1m22.852s proved to be the best seen on the super-soft compound across both weeks. That time was set in the morning run, with the four-time champion embarking on a full race simulation in the afternoon on his way to 142 laps overall, the highest total of the day. Vettel finished 0.282 seconds clear of Toro Rosso's Carlos Sainz Jr, whose lap of 1m23.134s was posted before lunch on Pirelli's new-for-2016 ultra-soft compound. Felipe Massa leaped from 10th in the times in the morning to third come the end courtesy of a super-soft tyre run that put him 0.792s behind Vettel. Like Vettel and Sainz, the best lap from Force India's Sergio Perez was also done in the morning, with the Mexican using super-softs to finish 0.889s down on Vettel. On his final test outing in the morning, Lewis Hamilton was denied the "knife-edge" run he had hoped for as Mercedes kept the true potential of its W07 Hybrid under wraps. Come the end of his 638th lap in the car over the two weeks, Hamilton broke down with a transmission problem that delayed team-mate Nico Rosberg's running in the afternoon. Hamilton finished fifth quickest, with Rosberg down in 13th, and with neither driver using any of the soft compounds, as was predominantly the case across the eight days. Rosberg still managed 70 laps on Friday, but in appearing to concentrate on high-fuel runs the German finished 4.599s behind compatriot Vettel . Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was sixth quickest on a set of softs, followed by the McLaren of Jenson Button who found himself still almost two seconds off the pace, despite his best lap being on ultra-softs. Jolyon Palmer suffered yet another issue on his final day in the car. A hydraulic problem limited his Renault to just 31 laps in the morning, the Briton added another 59 in the afternoon to finish eighth best on a super-soft lap. Sauber's Marcus Ericsson was ninth courtesy of a soft tyre outing, 2.1s behind Vettel, and just ahead of Haas drivers Romain Grosjean and Esteban Gutierrez. Grosjean completed 66 laps in the morning after being plagued by brake-by-wire woes on Thursday before handing over the car to Gutierrez for the afternoon. The Mexican managed just 25 laps, with his super-soft blast still 0.167s behind Grosjean's best effort on a set of softs.
Following mechanical issues in the morning that confined Rio Haryanto to a solitary installation lap just before lunch, the Indonesian rookie managed a further 57 across the afternoon, but three seconds down even using ultra-softs.

1 : Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari - 1m22.852s laps 142
2 : Carlos Sainz - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m23.134s + 0.282s laps 133
3 : Felipe Massa - Williams/Mercedes - 1m23.644s + 0.792s laps129
4 : Sergio Perez - Force India/Mercedes - 1m23.721s + 0.869s laps 60
5 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m24.133s + 1.281s laps 69
6 : Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m24.427s + 1.575s laps 123
7 : Jenson Button - McLaren/Honda - 1m24.714s + 1.862s laps 121
8 : Jolyon Palmer - Renault - 1m24.859s + 2.007s laps 90
9 : Marcus Ericsson - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m25.031s + 2.179s laps 132
10 : Romain Grosjean - Haas/Ferrari - 1m25.255s + 2.403s laps 66
11 : Esteban Gutierrez - Haas/Ferrari - 1m25.422s + 2.570s laps 25
12 : Rio Haryanto - Manor/Mercedes - 1m25.899s + 3.047s laps 58
13 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes 1m26.- 140s + 3.288s laps 70

Next appointment 18th march Melbourne Australia

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Barcelona F1 test week 2 : Kimi Raikkonen and Ferrari on top at day 3 of testing :

Ferrari stepped up its preparations for the new Formula 1 season as Kimi Raikkonen set the fastest lap seen in testing so far and completed a race simulation on Thursday. After starting his day with a trial run of the FIA's halo cockpit protection system the governing body hopes will be on all F1 cars in 2017, Raikkonen went on to set the pace on the third morning of the second test.
Using Pirelli's ultra-soft tyre, Raikkonen set a time of 1m22.765s, 0.045 seconds quicker than team-mate Sebastian Vettel's benchmark from day two of test one, which was also set on the new-for-2016 rubber. Come the afternoon, the Finn put the SF16-H through its paces with a 66-lap Spanish Grand Prix run around Barcelona's Catalunya track. Raikkonen's laptimes fared well against the simulations of Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton on Monday and Nico Rosberg on Tuesday. The run was put on hold for a short period as Romain Grosjean brought out the red flags for a second time with an excursion across the gravel, as he had done at the very end of the morning session. The Frenchman made it a hat-trick late on to bring the day to an end six minutes earlier than scheduled. Although Raikkonen finished comfortably quickest, Williams's Felipe Massa was only 0.428s adrift with an early afternoon run on soft tyres. Massa managed to get ahead of two other drivers on ultra-softs in Force India's Nico Hulkenberg and Max Verstappen in the Toro Rosso, the former just under half a second down, and the latter just over 0.6s adrift. Verstappen finished with the highest lap count of the day on 159, more than the two Mercedes drivers combined after Rosberg had run in the morning and Hamilton in the afternoon, the duo clocking up 144 laps between them. Rosberg opted for a different run programme for his stint, working from a baseline with his car in order to focus on different set-ups. It resulted in Rosberg completing 81 laps, the highest tally in the morning, before Hamilton took over. Rosberg finished up fifth quickest, 1.3s down, with Hamilton down in 11th, 3.7s off the pace. Both set their times on mediums. In between the Mercedes, Sauber's Felipe Nasr finished two seconds off the pace on soft tyres, with McLaren's Fernando Alonso in close attendance on super-softs. Alonso also conducted a heavy-fuel race simulation of his own, and even had a blast on the ultra-softs in a productive afternoon. Pascal Wehrlein posted Manor's best lap of testing to date, using ultra-softs, to finish 2.148s behind Raikkonen, with Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat ninth on softs, and a further two tenths of a second down. Jolyon Palmer finally managed to get in some meaningful running in his Renault in the afternoon, after only completing 26 laps in the morning to add to the 79 over two days last week when he encountered a range of issues. A late run on softs elevated Palmer over Hamilton to 10th, with the best of his 98 laps being a 1m26.224s. Grosjean brought up the rear in his Haas, and despite his trio of red flags, still managed 78 laps after the American team finally overcame the turbo problems that had plagued it since Tuesday afternoon.

1 : Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari - 1m22.765s laps 136
2 : Felipe Massa - Williams/Mercedes - 1m23.193s + 0.428s laps 119
3 : Nico Hulkenberg - Force India/Mercedes - 1m23.251s + 0.486s laps 137
4 : Max Verstappen - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m23.382s + 0.617s laps 159
5 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1m24.126s + 1.361s laps 81
6 : Felipe Nasr - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m24.760s + 1.995s laps 116
7 : Fernando Alonso - McLaren/Honda - 1m24.870s + 2.105s laps 118
8 : Pascal Wehrlein - Manor/Mercedes - 1m24.913s + 2.148s laps 48
9 : Daniil Kvyat - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m25.141s + 2.376s laps 121
10 : Jolyon Palmer - Renault - 1m26.224s + 3.459s laps 98
11 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m26.488s + 3.723s laps 63
12 : Romain Grosjean - Haas/Ferrari - 1m27.196s + 4.431s laps 78

Tomorrow final day of testing before heading to Melbourne , Australia

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Shaky - Schumi

Barcelona F1 test week 2 : Bottas puts Williams on top on super-softs on day 2 :

Valtteri Bottas put Williams on top for the first time in Formula 1 pre-season testing as he set the pace on day two of the second week at Barcelona. The Finn clocked a 1m23.261s on the super-soft tyres in the afternoon, having completed a series of qualifying simulations on the soft tyres. Mercedes split driving duties again with Lewis Hamilton's leading time from the morning, set on the softs, good enough for second, 0.361 seconds off the pace. His team-mate Nico Rosberg focused on running the mediums in the afternoon and ended the day ninth as Mercedes logged an impressive 164 laps. Ferrari had comfortably its most productive day of testing so far as Sebastian Vettel completed 151 laps while focusing mainly on set-up work on the medium tyres. The German was fourth fastest, behind Renault's Kevin Magnussen who logged 126 laps. A small suspension issue confined Jenson Button's McLaren to the garage just before lunch, but he caught up in the afternoon and ended the day fifth, with 121 laps to his name. Red Bull focused on pitstop practice for much of the morning, with owner Dietrich Mateschitz keeping an eye on the action from the pitwall. Daniel Ricciardo's attention turned to longer runs in the afternoon and he ended the day sixth, ahead of Carlos Sainz Jr, whose individual tally of 166 was the highest of the day, and Sergio Perez. Sauber's Marcus Ericsson recovered from a delayed start to log 55 laps before stopping on track with one hour to go. The red flag was duly shown, but the Swede managed to get back out just before the end of the day. It was a miserable day for Haas, with Esteban Gutierrez managing just one lap due to turbo problems.

1 : Valtteri Bottas - Williams/Mercedes - 1m23.261s laps 108
2 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m23.622s + 0.361s laps 73
3 : Kevin Magnussen - Renault - 1m23.933s + 0.672s laps 126
4 : Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari - 1m24.611s + 1.350s laps 151
5 : Jenson Button - McLaren/Honda - 1m25.183s + 1.922s laps 121
6 : Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m25.235s + 1.974s laps 135
7 : Carlos Sainz - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m25.300s + 2.039s laps 166
8 : Sergio Perez - Force India/Mercedes - 1m25.593s + 2.332s laps 128
9 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1m26.298s + 3.037s laps 91
10 : Pascal Wehrlein - Manor/Mercedes - 1m27.064s + 3.803s laps 79
11 : Marcus Ericsson - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m27.487s + 4.226s laps 55
- : Esteban Gutierrez - Haas/Ferrari - - laps 1

Testing continue tomorrow

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Barcelona F1 test week 2 : Rosberg tops Mercedes 1 first day of 2016 :

Nico Rosberg put a Mercedes on top of the timesheets for the first time in 2016 Formula 1 pre-season testing while his team-mate Lewis Hamilton completed a full race simulation. On the opening day of Barcelona's second test, Mercedes ran the soft tyres for the first time this year with Rosberg clocking a 1m23.022s just before lunch, finishing 0.207 seconds clear of Valtteri Bottas in the Williams, whose time was set on the ultra-softs. It was an impressive performance from Mercedes, which focused on low-fuel and qualifying speed in the morning before changing tack in the afternoon when Hamilton took over the car. The reigning world champion completed a short stint on the softs before completing three stints on the mediums as part of a 66-lap run. Fernando Alonso suffered what McLaren described as a "small telemetry" glitch before lunch, but the team got him back out midway through the afternoon. The two-time world champion clocked the third quickest time, 1.713s off the pace, and put 93 laps on the board. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen had spent much of the day in second before he stopped out on track just after lunch. He returned to the track late in the afternoon and he ended the day with 71 laps on the board, 100 fewer than Rosberg and Hamilton managed between them. Red Bull suffered a long delay after a brake casing problem caused a small fire at the back of the RB12, with Daniil Kvyat rejoining in the afternoon to clock the fifth fastest time. Hamilton was sixth, ahead of Max Verstappen and Nico Hulkenberg, both of whom managed more than 100 laps apiece. The 2016-spec Sauber proved to be reliable straight out of the box as Felipe Nasr clocked 103 laps for the ninth quickest time. Renault's Kevin Magnussen was 10th, but caused a red flag with a few minutes to go, when he stopped out on track having completed 119 laps. Haas saw its running end early with a fuel system problem, with Esteban Gutierrez managing just 23 laps. Manor's Rio Haryanto had a troublesome day with the Indonesian missing most of the morning session as his team worked to fix a small oil leak. He recovered to log 45 laps and the 12th fastest time, 4.603s off the pace.

1 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1m23.022s laps 82
2 : Valtteri Bottas - Williams/Mercedes - 1m23.229s + 0.207s laps 123
3 : Fernando Alonso - McLaren/Honda - 1m24.735s + 1.713s laps 93
4 : Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari - 1m24.836s + 1.814s laps 72
5 : Daniil Kvyat - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m25.049s + 2.027s laps 69
6 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m25.051s + 2.029s laps 90
7 : Max Verstappen - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m25.176s + 2.154s laps 144
8 : Nico Hulkenberg - Force India/Mercedes - 1m25.336s + 2.314s laps 121
9 : Felipe Nasr - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m25.493s + 2.471s laps 103
10 : Kevin Magnussen - Renault - 1m25.760s + 2.738s laps 119
11 : Esteban Gutierrez - Haas/Ferrari - 1m26.661s + 3.639s laps 23
12 : Rio Haryanto - Manor/Mercedes - 1m27.625s + 4.603s laps 45

Testing continue tomorrow

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Shaky - Schumi

Overview: Who test when during the second F1 winter testing

Tomorrow is the last winter test in preparation for the new F1 season 2016

Mercedes :
- Tuesday: Nico Rosberg (Morning) - Lewis Hamilton (Afternoon)
- Wednesday: Lewis Hamilton (Morning) - Nico Rosberg (Afternoon)
- Thursday: Nico Rosberg (Morning) - Lewis Hamilton (Afternoon)
- Friday: Lewis Hamilton (Morning) - Nico Rosberg (Afternoon)

Ferrari :
- Tuesday: Kimi Raikkonen
- Wednesday: Sebastian Vettel
- Thursday: Kimi Raikkonen
- Friday: Sebastian Vettel

Williams :
- Tuesday: Valtteri Bottas
- Wednesday: Valtteri Bottas
- Thursday: Felipe Massa
- Friday: Felipe Massa

Red Bull :
- Tuesday: Daniil Kvyat
- Wednesday: Daniel Ricciardo
- Thursday: Daniil Kvyat
- Friday: Daniel Ricciardo

Force India :
- Tuesday: Nico Hülkenberg
- Wednesday: Sergio Pérez
- Thursday: Nico Hülkenberg
- Friday: Sergio Pérez

Renault :
- Tuesday: Kevin Magnussen
- Wednesday: Kevin Magnussen
- Thursday: Jolyon Palmer
- Friday: Jolyon Palmer

Toro Rosso :
- Tuesday: Max Verstappen
- Wednesday: Carlos Sainz Jr.
- Thursday: Max Verstappen
- Friday: Carlos Sainz Jr.

Sauber :
- Tuesday: Felipe Nasr
- Wednesday: Marcus Ericsson
- Thursday: Felipe Nasr
- Friday: Marcus Ericsson

McLaren :
- Tuesday: Fernando Alonso
- Wednesday: Jenson Button
- Thursday: Fernando Alonso
- Friday: Jenson Button

Manor :
- Tuesday: Rio Haryanto
- Wednesday:
- Thursday:
- Friday:

Haas :
- Tuesday: Esteban Gutiérrez
- Wednesday: Esteban Gutiérrez
- Thursday: Romain Grosjean
- Friday: Romain Grosjean

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Shaky - Schumi

Here is an overview of the tire choices for the 1st 7 races so far of the season 2016 :

Australia : Super Soft / Soft / Medium
Bahrain : Super Soft / Soft / Medium
China : Supers Soft / Soft / Medium
Russia : Super Soft / Soft / Medium
Spain : not yet known
Monaco ultra Soft / tBA / tBA
Canada : ultra Soft / Super Soft / Soft

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Barcelona F1 test : Kimi Raikkonen tops final day of this week testing

Kimi Raikkonen topped the timesheets for Ferrari on the final day of the first Formula 1 pre-season test at Barcelona, while Mercedes clocked up an impressive 185 laps. Raikkonen bolted on a set of the ultra-soft tyres and set a 1m23.477s just before lunch to lead the way. It was the third day out of four that a Ferrari topped the times, with the Finn finishing 0.816s clear of Red Bull's Daniil Kvyat who set his time on the same compound. Mercedes, running its new nose, split running between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg, who logged 99 and 86 laps respectively. Both drivers did all of their running on the medium tyre with Rosberg seventh, just over one tenth ahead of Hamilton in eighth. It was not such a successful day for McLaren-Honda, which suffered a coolant leak early in the morning. The team was unable to get car back out, leaving Fernando Alonso to end the day with only three laps under his belt and not having set a time. A late run on the super-softs catapulted Force India development driver Alfonso Celis to third, 1.363s off the pace, on his second day in the car this week. Kevin Magnussen made up for a lack of running for his team-mate Jolyon Palmer earlier in the week with the day's highest individual tally of 153 laps and the third quickest time. The Dane brought out the red flag when he stopped out on track in the final quarter of an hour. Max Verstappen ended another solid day for Toro Rosso fifth, adding 106 laps to the 161 his team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr managed on Wednesday. Sauber was busy, too, with Felipe Nasr doing over 100 laps in the 2015-spec car and achieving the sixth fastest time with a soft-tyre run. Haas completed a race simulation with Esteban Gutierrez as it continued its maiden F1 test. The Mexican finished 10th quickest. Rookie Rio Haryanto was responsible for a red flag when he crashed at Turn 5 during the afternoon and did not return to the track. The Indonesian, who logged 51 laps, propped up the timesheets with a 1m28.266s on the softs.

1 : Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari - 1m23.477s laps 80
2 : Daniil Kvyat - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m24.293s + 0.816s laps 96
3 : Alfonso Celis - Force India/Mercedes - 1m24.840s + 1.363s laps 75
4 : Kevin Magnussen - Renault - 1m25.263s + 1.786s laps 153
5 : Max Verstappen - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m25.393s + 1.916s laps 110
6 : Felipe Nasr - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m26.053s + 2.576s laps 121
7 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1m26.187s + 2.710s laps 86
8 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m26.295s + 2.818s laps 99
9 : Felipe Massa - Williams/Mercedes - 1m26.483s + 3.006s laps 54
10 : Esteban Gutierrez - Haas/Ferrari - 1m27.802s + 4.325s laps 89
11 : Rio Haryanto - Manor/Mercedes - 1m28.266s + 4.789s laps 51
- Fernando Alonso - McLaren/Honda - laps 3

Testing continues next week starting at tuesday

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Barcelona F1 testing : Force India's Hulkenberg on top, Haas 2nd on Day 3 :

Nico Hulkenberg and Force India ended Ferrari's domination of pre-season Formula 1 testing on a troubled first day of 2016 running for Kimi Raikkonen, as Romain Grosjean put Haas second. Hulkenberg comfortably topped the Barcelona timesheet with a morning lap of 1m23.110s set on the super-soft compound. That was exactly three tenths of a second shy of the week's best lap, set by Sebastian Vettel on Pirelli's new ultra-soft on Tuesday. While Vettel covered 195 laps as he topped the first two days, Raikkonen managed just four installation laps on Wednesday morning, without a time to his name, while Ferrari completed a number of fuel-system checks. The Finn at least fared better in the afternoon as he clocked up another 73 laps, with his best on the medium compound moving him up to second behind Hulkenberg, albeit 2.867s adrift. He was then demoted to third when Grosjean put in a lap one tenth quicker during a late run on a set of softs for newcomer Haas. After two difficult days for Jolyon Palmer and Renault, with software issues on Monday and a turbo failure on Tuesday limiting him to just 79 laps, team-mate Kevin Magnussen posted 103 on his way to fourth quickest on his return to F1. While positive for Renault, there are still issues to contend with. Magnussen stopped on track due to an unspecified problem with an hour of the day remaining. An attempt to send the Dane back out with 15 minutes to run resulted in him stopping near the end of the pitlane. Magnussen's initial issue brought out the third red flag of the day, the first having come in the opening hour when Carlos Sainz Jr was forced to stop his Toro Rosso due to his right-rear wheel not being attached. Sainz went on to complete the second highest number of laps in a day this week with 161, finishing just over three seconds down on Hulkenberg in sixth. Nico Rosberg sandwiched Magnussen and Sainz as he split the day's driving duties for Mercedes with reigning champion Lewis Hamilton. After posting 172 laps on Tuesday, Rosberg added a further 74 on Wednesday morning, with Hamilton following up with 87 in the afternoon for eighth quickest.
Mercedes is still yet to use anything other than the medium tyre. Felipe Nasr was seventh in the 2015 Sauber, 3.282s behind Hulkenberg and a fraction of a second ahead of Hamilton. In his first 2016 outing for Red Bull, Daniil Kvyat was ninth, 0.076s behind Hamilton, and 0.215s ahead of Felipe Massa as the Brazilian took over Williams driving duties from Valtteri Bottas and ran for 109 laps. Jenson Button only managed 51 in his McLaren. A minor fire caused by a hydraulic leak ended his day early and left the veteran nearly four seconds down. On his debut as fully-fledged F1 driver, Rio Haryanto brought up the rear, 5.139s off the pace. The Indonesian also spun in the morning to bring out the second red flag.

1 : Nico Hulkenberg - Force India/Mercedes - 1m23.110s laps 99
2 : Romain Grosjean - Haas/Ferrari - 1m25.874s + 2.764s laps 82
3 : Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari - 1m25.977s + 2.867s laps 78
4 : Kevin Magnussen - Renault - 1m26.014s -+ 2.904s laps 111
5 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1m26.084s + 2.974s laps 74
6 : Carlos Sainz - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m26.239s + 3.129s laps 161
7 : Felipe Nasr - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m26.392s + 3.282s laps 115
8 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m26.421s + 3.311s laps 88
9 : Daniil Kvyat - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m26.497s + 3.387s laps 74
10 : Felipe Massa - Williams/Mercedes - 1m26.712s + 3.602s laps 109
11 : Jenson Button - McLaren/Honda - 1m26.919s + 3.809s laps 51
12 : Rio Haryanto - Manor/Mercedes - 1m28.249s + 5.139s laps 78

Testing continue tomorrow

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Barcelona F1 test: Sebastian Vettel fastest again on day two :
Sebastian Vettel set the pace on day two of the first pre-season Formula 1 test at Barcelona with eight teams managing to rack up more than 100 laps. The Ferrari driver's leading time of 1m22.810s was set on the new ultra-soft tyre compound just before the lunch break in Barcelona .He focused on long runs in the afternoon and brought out the third red flag of the day when he pulled off track at Turn 3 with five minutes remaining. It was the second successive day Vettel set the pace with the German running all of the Pirelli compounds apart from the hards as he clocked 126 laps, nearly double his Monday tally. However, it was Mercedes that had the most productive day again in terms of mileage, with Nico Rosberg's first run in the car achieving an impressive 172 laps. Sergio Perez, Valtteri Bottas, Fernando Alonso, Max Verstappen and Marcus Ericsson, running the 2015-spec Sauber, were the other drivers to pass the 100 lap-mark. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was second quickest, 0.715s off the pace after also trying the ultra-softs, with 112 laps under his belt. Perez used the super-softs to go third quickest, 0.840s adrift, with Rosberg two seconds off the pace in fourth, having focused on long runs in the afternoon. Ericsson was fifth ahead of Esteban Gutierrez, who had an encouraging day for Haas with 79 relatively untroubled laps. Bottas was seventh for Williams ahead of Pascal Wehrlein and Alonso, who managed more laps on Tuesday than he achieved in the whole of 2015 pre-season testing. Jolyon Palmer, who finished 10th quickest, pulled off the track in the afternoon with a turbo problem on his 42nd lap to bring out the red flag and curtail Renault's running. Verstappen, who was responsible for the second red flag of the day when he also stopped out on track, propped up the timesheets for Toro Rosso.

1 : Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari -1m22.810s - laps 126
2 : Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m23.525s + 0.715s laps 112
3 : Sergio Perez Force - India/Mercedes - 1m23.650s + 0.840s laps 101
4 : Nico Rosberg - Mercedes - 1m24.867s + 2.057s laps 172
5 : Marcus Ericsson - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m25.237s + 2.427s laps 108
6 : Esteban Gutierrez - Haas/Ferrari - 1m25.524s + 2.714s laps 79
7 : Valtteri Bottas - Williams/Mercedes - 1m25.648s + 2.838s laps 134
8 : Pascal Wehrlein - Manor/Mercedes - 1m25.925s + 3.115s laps 71
9 : Fernando Alonso - McLaren/Honda - 1m26.082s + 3.272s laps 119
10 : Jolyon Palmer - Renault - 1m26.189s + 3.379s laps 42
11 : Max Verstappen - Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m26.539s + 3.729s laps 121

Testing continue tomorrow

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Shaky - Schumi

Who test when during the first F1 winter test ?



Mercedes :
- Monday: Lewis Hamilton
- Tuesday: Nico Rosberg
- Wednesday: Lewis Hamilton
- Thursday: Nico Rosberg

Ferrari :
- Monday: Sebastian Vettel
- Tuesday: Sebastian Vettel
- Wednesday: Kimi Raikkonen
- Thursday: Kimi Raikkonen

Williams :
- Monday: Valtteri Bottas
- Tuesday: Valtteri Bottas
- Wednesday: Felipe Massa
- Thursday: Felipe Massa

Red Bull :
- Monday: Daniel Ricciardo
- Tuesday: Daniel Ricciardo
- Wednesday: Daniil Kvyat
- Thursday: Daniil Kvyat

Force India :
- Monday: Alfonso Celis *
- Tuesday: Sergio Pérez
- Wednesday: Sergio Pérez (morning) - Nico Hülkenberg (afternoon)
- Thursday: Nico Hülkenberg

Renault :
- Monday: Jolyon Palmer
- Tuesday: Jolyon Palmer
- Wednesday: Kevin Magnussen
- Thursday: Kevin Magnussen

Toro Rosso :
- Monday: Carlos Sainz
- Tuesday: Max Verstappen
- Wednesday: Carlos Sainz
- Thursday: Max Verstappen

Sauber ** :
- Monday: Marcus Ericsson
- Tuesday: Marcus Ericsson
- Wednesday: Felipe Nasr
- Thursday: Felipe Nasr

McLaren :
- Monday: Jenson Button
- Tuesday: Fernando Alonso
- Wednesday: Jenson Button
- Thursday: Fernando Alonso

Manor :
- Monday: Pascal Wehrlein
- Tuesday: Pascal Wehrlein
- Wednesday: Rio Haryanto
- Thursday: Rio Haryanto

Haas F1 :
- Monday: Romain Grosjean
- Tuesday: Esteban Gutiérrez
- Wednesday: Romain Grosjean
- Thursday: Esteban Gutiérrez

* Test driver
** Driving by car from 2015

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Shaky - Schumi

Barcelona F1 test: Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari top day one

Sebastian Vettel finished the opening day of 2016 pre-season Formula 1 testing fastest for Ferrari, but it was reigning champions Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes who racked up the laps. Vettel's leading time of 1m24.939s at Barcelona's Catalunya circuit was posted late in the morning session on a set of medium-compound Pirelli tyres. He only managed 69 laps overall - 36 in the morning, 33 in the afternoon - compared to Hamilton's phenomenal total of 156. The Mercedes driver's best was just under half a second off Vettel. To put Hamilton's lap-count total into perspective, no other driver came close to even 100 laps, with the next best being Marcus Ericsson's 88 for Sauber. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo finished best of the rest, just over a second off the pace in an RB12 that still sports a Renault engine, albeit badged TAG Heuer in the wake of last season's acrimonious fallout between team and manufacturer. Valtteri Bottas was fourth on the timesheet, just 0.047s behind Ricciardo, with Force India reserve Alfonso Celis Jr a solid fifth on his F1 debut. Celis's best time of 1m26.298s was set on the soft compound, with the Mexican finishing four tenths of a second up on Jenson Button in his McLaren, the Briton also running the slightly quicker rubber for his best lap. Button also clocked up 84 laps, five more than McLaren-Honda posted over all four days of last season's first test at Jerez ahead of what eventually proved to be a torrid year for the Japanese manufacturer on its return to F1. Running in an unmarked Toro Rosso as the livery is still in the pipeline and to be unveiled from the start of the second test next Tuesday, Carlos Sainz Jr was seventh, 2.2s adrift of Vettel. In last year's Sauber as the 2016 model will not be ready until test two, Marcus Ericsson was eighth quickest, with the Swede 2.6s off the pace. Pascal Wehrlein produced an encouraging display on his Manor debut with a time 3.3s behind Vettel. After managing just eight laps in the morning as Manor only received a number of parts late last night, the 2015 DTM champion managed 46 in the afternoon. A front-wing failure in the morning session compromised Haas's maiden outing, with Romain Grosjean winding up 10th on the timesheet, and managing just 31 laps for the day, with his best a 1m28.399s. Bringing up the rear on a day full of "niggles", according to Jolyon Palmer, was Renault. The Briton was just over four seconds down and with only 37 laps to his name.

1 : Sebastian Vettel - Ferrari - 1m24.939s laps 69
2 : Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes - 1m25.409s + 0.470s laps 156
3 : Daniel Ricciardo - Red Bull/TAG Heuer - 1m26.044s +1.105s laps 87
4 : Valtteri Bottas - Williams/Mercedes - 1m26.091s + 1.152s laps 80
5 : Alfonso Celis - Force India/Mercedes - 1m26.298s + 1.359s laps 58
6 : Jenson Button - McLaren/Honda - 1m26.735s + 1.796s laps 84
7 : Carlos Sainz Jr.- Toro Rosso/Ferrari - 1m27.180s + 2.241s laps 55
8 : Marcus Ericsson - Sauber/Ferrari - 1m27.555s + 2.616s laps 88
9 : Pascal Wehrlein - Manor/Mercedes - 1m28.292s + 3.353s laps 54
10 : Romain Grosjean - Haas/Ferrari - 1m28.399s + 3.460s laps 31
11 : Jolyon Palmer - Renault - 1m29.356s + 4.417s laps 37

Testing will continue tomorrow

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Shaky-Schumi

FORMULA ONE RACE CALENDAR 2016 :
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1. Australian Grand Prix, Melbourne § 20 March 05:00
2. Bahrain Grand Prix, Sakhir § 3 April 16:00
3. Chinese Grand Prix, Shanghai § 17 April 07:00
4. Russian Grand Prix, Sochi § 1 May 13:00
5. Spanish Grand Prix, Catalunya § 15 May 13:00
6. Monaco Grand Prix, Monte Carlo § 29 May 13:00
7. Canadian Grand Prix, Montreal § 12 June 19:00
8. European Grand Prix, Baku § 19 June 14:00
9. Austrian Grand Prix, Spielberg § 3 July 13:00
10. British Grand Prix, Silverstone § 10 July 13:00
11. Hungarian Grand Prix, Budapest § 24 July 13:00
12. German Grand Prix, Hockenheim § 31 July 13:00
13. Belgian Grand Prix, Spa-Francorchamps § 28 August 13:00
14. Italian Grand Prix, Monza § 4 September 13:00
15. Singapore Grand Prix, Singapore 18 September 13:00
16. Malaysian Grand Prix, Kuala Lumpur § 2 October 08:00
17. Japanese Grand Prix, Suzuka § 9 October 06:00
18. United States Grand Prix, Austin § 23 October 20:00
19. Mexican Grand Prix, Mexico City § 30 October 19:00
20. Brazilian Grand Prix, Sao Paulo § 13 November 16:00
21. Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Yas Marina § 27 November 13:00