Driver	Jenson Button
Location	Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
Track Length	4.655km
Weather	Warm and sunny. Maximum ambient temperature 19.4°C
Laps completed	64
Kilometres Covered	298km
Best Lap Time	1m23.510s at 11:16

Programme

First day of the final pre-season test and the Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team continues preparations ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, running Jenson (Thur/Sat) and Lewis (Fri/Sun) at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.

The team is planning on gradually introducing a suite of new components to the MP4-27 during this test. Focus for the opening two days will primarily be on pitstop practice with a full race crew and further race prove-outs – including some more time-consuming set-up work. The back-end of the test will be spent focusing on analysing and learning about our race-one aerodynamic package.

Team manager David Redding said: “Having completed more than 2000km at Barcelona last week, today was always going to be more about quality than quantity. We wanted to drill a little deeper into our understanding of the car, and that meant undertaking some bigger set-up changes that wouldn’t ordinarily be available to us during a grand prix weekend.

“We made good progress and we’re satisfied with today’s results.” 

 

Driver for day two	Lewis Hamilton
Duration of test	Four days (March 1-4)

Unofficial testing times:

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Time	Laps
1	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1m23.252	73
2	Jenson Button	Vodafone McLaren Mercedes	1m23.510	64
3	Sergio Perez	Sauber	1m23.820	118
4	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	1m23.830	102
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG	1m23.992	128
6	Jean-Eric Vergne	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1m24.216	113
7	Paul di Resta	Force India F1	1m24.305	98
8	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1m24.318	105
9	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham F1	1m24.876	123
10	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1m25.587	58