Barcelona F1 testing as it happened

By: Haydn Cobb, Jake Boxall-Legge

Summary

Leaderboard

Hamilton, Mercedes, 1m19.138s, C5 - 94 laps
Russell, Mercedes, 1m19.233s, C5 - 66
Perez, Red Bull, 1m19.556s, C4 - 74
Verstappen, Red Bull, 1m19.756s, C3 - 59
Vettel, Aston Martin, 1m19.824s, C5 - 48
Leclerc, Ferrari, 1m19.831s, C3 - 44
Sainz, Ferrari, 1m20.072s, C3 - 92
Albon, Williams, 1m20.318, C4 - 94
Latifi, Williams, 1m20.699s, C4 - 13
Ricciardo, McLaren, 1m20.750, C3 - 86
Norris, McLaren, 1m20.827s, C3 - 52
Alonso, Alpine, 1m21.242s, C3 - 12
Zhou, Alfa Romeo, 1m21.939s, C3 - 41
Gasly, AlphaTauri, 1m22.469s, C4 - 40
Mazepin, Haas, 1m26.229s, C3 - 9
Bottas, Alfa Romeo, 1m30.433s, C3 - 10

Summary
-Hamilton tops final day of the Barcelona F1 shakedown test
-Russell led disrupted morning session hit by five red flags: Alonso (hydraulics), Gasly (crash), Zhou x2 (crash, mechanical), Vettel (car fire)
-Circuit soaked with water tankers during lunch break for Pirelli wet tyre test, dry tyre running resumes after 90 minutes

Status: Stopped

19:31 And that's all from us! It's been an absolute pleasure to be able to bring you all the action from Barcelona - hope you've enjoyed it! We wish you a great weekend - and look forward to seeing you again for Bahrain. Goodnight!

19:29

Total laps and km per team across Barcelona F1 test

1. Ferrari - 439 laps - 2052 km
2. Mercedes - 393 - 1837
3. McLaren - 367 - 1715
4. Red Bull - 358 - 1673
5. Williams - 347 - 1622
6. AlphaTauri - 308 - 1439
7. Aston Martin - 296 - 1383
8. Alpine - 266 - 1243
9. Alfa Romeo - 175 - 818
10. Haas - 160 - 748

19:24

Total laps and km per driver across Barcelona F1 test

1. Carlos Sainz Jr. - 236 laps - 1103 km
2. Daniel Ricciardo - 212 - 991
3. George Russell - 209 - 977
4. Alexander Albon - 207 - 967
5. Max Verstappen - 206 - 963
6. Charles Leclerc - 203 - 949
7. Pierre Gasly - 187 - 874
8. Lewis Hamilton - 184 - 860
9. Sebastian Vettel - 174 - 813
10. Lando Norris - 155 - 724
11. Sergio Pérez - 152 - 710
12. Fernando Alonso - 141 - 659
13. Nicholas Latifi - 140 - 654
14. Esteban Ocon - 125 - 584
15. Lance Stroll - 122 - 570
16. Yuki Tsunoda - 121 - 565
17. Guanyu Zhou - 112 - 523
18. Mick Schumacher - 89 - 416
19. Nikita Mazepin - 71 - 331
20. Valtteri Bottas - 54 - 252
21. Robert Kubica - 9 - 42

19:19

2022 F1 Barcelona test: Hamilton leads Mercedes 1-2 on final day

Here's the report from the final session in the Barcelona pre-season test:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/2022-f1-barcelona-test-hamilton-leads-mercedes-1-2-on-final-day/8493144/

19:10 The customary practice starts took place before the cars returned to the garage: Sainz taking the first-place grid slot for his own effort - in front of Perez. Once they'd both got away, Hamilton took the P1 spot for himself.

19:01 And that's it! The first three-day F1 test of the year is over - Hamilton from Russell from Perez from Verstappen. It'd be a Noah's Ark top 10 if Vettel wasn't loitering in P5, ahead of Leclerc, Sainz, Albon, Latifi, Ricciardo and Norris.

19:00 It looked as thought Hamilton was going to end the session with another fastest lap - but he backed off massively! What a tease...

18:53 Hamilton takes 0.003s out of his time to set a 1m19.138s - on C5s. He said he's been to the year, three-thousandths...

18:50 It's a 1m20.072s for Sainz on the C3s, moving the Ferrari driver up to P7 ahead of Albon. The Williams driver has overtaken him on lap count, sitting on 86 to Sainz's 84.

18:44 Hamilton sets a 1m19.141s to go top on C4 tyres, with 16 minutes of the test left to run. If he'd matched his earlier best third sector, it'd have been in the 1m18s...

18:43 Oh, here we go - brace...

18:37 Hamilton sets a 1m19.674, complete with fastest first sector, to move up to P3 on his set of C4 tyres. He did a faster final sector on an earlier lap, which was 0.4s quicker.

18:35 Hopefully we have a lull in fast times to find more obscure testing liveries - not the orange McLarens or anything like that, they're not obscure enough! How about this pre-zip livery 1999 BAR?

18:29 Perez now makes a move up to second place overall with a set of C4s, moving team-mate Verstappen down a place with a 1m19.556s - just over 0.3s off Russell's morning benchmark.

18:26 Sainz and Hamilton have improved marginally, with Sainz moving up to P8 with a 1m20.518s, while Hamilton goes P5 with a 1m20.225s on the C3 compound.

18:24 Remember when Arrows ran its Orange (and orange) liveried A21 in all-black during the winter months? Pepperidge Farm remembers:

18:21 Given Mazepin's done nine laps all day in the all-white Haas, it may prove to be one of the more elusive testing liveries. Are we going to use this as an opportunity to dig out obscure liveries from pre-season tests? You betcha.

18:18 There's not a lot of running going on right now - just Albon and Ricciardo doing the legwork at the moment. Ricciardo's McLaren just flashed past in a pitlane drive-through and...let's just say it needs a good clean. Heard the MCL36 is also available in orange.

18:10 A brace of personal bests come out of nowhere, as Perez sets a 1m20.441s to go P7 while Hamilton posts a 1m20.410s to sit above him in sixth. They split the Williamses on the timing boards as a result.

18:08 Sainz is pushing Hamilton for lappiest (it's a word, trust me bro) driver of the day - Hamilton's now up to 72, Sainz sits on 70. Ferrari's tally for today is 114, just four more than Red Bull's count of 110.