Bahrain Day 1: McLaren 4th and 5th
By Sam Cooper
February 24 2007
Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton and test driver Pedro De La Rosa finished the day at the Bahrain International Circuit 4th and 6th respectively, competing 130 laps in total. Lewis completing 82 and Pedro completing 48.
The Woking based Squad kept the teams moral up by finishing, yet again high up the order once again in testing, this has got to be good news for the third race of the 2007 season which comes to the Kingdom of Bahrain, for the third year.
Complete testing times are shown below
|
Position |
Constructor | Time |
Laps | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 01:31.778 | 86 |
| 2 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 01:31.901 | 47 |
| 3 | Jenson Button | Honda | 01:32.097 | 84 |
| 4 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren | 01:32.194 | 82 |
| 5 | Rubens Barrichello | Honda | 01:32.920 | 100 |
| 6 | Pedro De La Rosa | McLaren | 01:32.628 | 48 |
| 7 | Sebastian Vettel | BMW | 01:32.646 | 97 |
| 8 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 01:32.784 | 34 |
| 9 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW | 01:32.815 | 49 |
| 10 | Anthony Davidson | Super Aguri | 01:33.396 | 74 |
| 11 | Hekki Kovalainen | Renault | 01:33.579 | 113 |
| 12 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Renault | 01:33.807 | 92 |
| 13 | Mark Webber | Red Bull | 01:34.076 | 27 |
| 14 | David Coulthard | Red Bull | 01:34.594 | 30 |
| 15 | Ralf Schumacher | Toyota | 01:35.254 | 35 |
| 16 | Vitantonio Liuzzi | STR | 01:35.345 | 25 |
Testing will continue on Friday and on Saturday.