Paul Hembery, Pirelli Motorsport Director: “There are not too many conclusions you can read into the first test of the season, as teams are all trying different things with different specifications of car, making it quite hard to interpret from the outside the characteristics of each tyre. However, from the inside, all the data we have seen so far indicates that the overall tyre performance is about where we expected it to be, during both longer and shorter runs. Our biggest news was the debut of P Zero Purple ultrasoft tyre, which set the fastest time of the test and provided the extra performance we had aimed for, even though Barcelona is not the type of circuit it is particularly suited to.”

TOP TIMES FULL SESSION
Driver 		Team 		Compound  Lap Time Test Day
Vettel 		Ferrari 	ULTRASOFT 1:22.810 DAY 2
Hulkenberg 	Force India 	SUPERSOFT 1:23.110 DAY 3
Raikkonen 	Ferrari 	ULTRASOFT 1:23.477 DAY 4
Ricciardo	Red Bull 	ULTRASOFT 1:23.525 DAY 2
Perez 		Force India 	SUPERSOFT 1:23.650 DAY 2
Kvyat 		Red Bull 	ULTRASOFT 1:24.293 DAY 4
Celis 		Force India 	SOFT 	  1:24.840 DAY 4
Rosberg 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 	  1:24.867 DAY 2
Ericsson 	Sauber 		SOFT 	  1:25.237 DAY 2
Magnussen 	Renault 	SOFT 	  1:25.263 DAY 4
Sainz J 	Toro Rosso 	MEDIUM 	  1:25.393 DAY 4
Hamilton 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 	  1:25.409 DAY 1
Gutierrez 	Haas 		SOFT 	  1:25.524 DAY 2
Bottas 		Williams 	SOFT 	  1:25.648 DAY 2
Grosjean 	Haas 		SOFT 	  1:25.874 DAY 3
Wehrlein 	Manor 		SOFT 	  1:25.925 DAY 2
Nasr 		Sauber 		SOFT 	  1:26.053 DAY 4
Button 		McLaren 	SOFT 	  1:26.082 DAY 2
Palmer 		Renault 	SOFT 	  1:26.189 DAY 2
Massa 		Williams 	SOFT 	  1:26.483 DAY 4
Verstappen 	Toro Rosso 	MEDIUM 	  1:26.539 DAY 2
Haryanto 	Manor 		SOFT 	  1:28.249 DAY 3

BEST TIMES BY COMPOUND
Compound 	Driver 		Team 	   Lap Time Test Day
ULTRASOFT 	Vettel 		Ferrari    1:22.810 DAY 2
SOFT 		Vettel 		Ferrari    1:23.741 DAY 2
MEDIUM 		Rosberg 	Mercedes   1:24.867 DAY 2
SUPERSOFT 	Hulkenberg 	Force India 1:23.110 DAY 3
HARD Massa Williams 1:28.214 DAY 3

LONGEST STINT BY COMPOUND
Compound 	Driver 		Team 	  Laps 	   Test Day
MEDIUM 		Magnussen 	Renault   30 	   DAY 4
HARD 		Bottas 		Williams  26 	   DAY 2
SOFT 		Bottas 		Williams  17 	   DAY 2
SUPERSOFT 	Vettel 		Ferrari   8 	   DAY 2
ULTRASOFT 	Vettel 		Ferrari   7 	   DAY 2

TOP TIMES DAY 1
Driver 		Team 		Compound 	Lap Time
Vettel 		Ferrari 	MEDIUM 		1:24.939
Hamilton 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 		1:25.409
Ricciardo 	Red Bull 	MEDIUM 		1:26.044
Bottas 		Williams 	MEDIUM 		1:26.091
Celis 		Force India 	SOFT 		1:26.298
Button 		McLaren 	SOFT 		1:26.735
Sainz J 	Toro Rosso 	PROTO M 	1:27.180
Ericsson 	Sauber 		MEDIUM 		1:27.555
Wehrlein 	Manor 		SOFT 		1:28.292
Grosjean 	Haas 		MEDIUM 		1:28.399
Palmer 		Renault 	MEDIUM 		1:29.356

TOP TIMES DAY 2
Driver 		Team 		Compound 	Lap Time
Vettel 		Ferrari 	ULTRASOFT 	1:22.810
Ricciardo 	Red Bull 	ULTRASOFT 	1:23.525
Perez 		Force India 	SUPERSOFT 	1:23.650
Rosberg 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 		1:24.867
Ericsson 	Sauber 		SOFT 		1:25.237
Gutierrez 	Haas 		SOFT 		1:25.524
Bottas 		Williams 	SOFT 		1:25.648
Wehrlein 	Manor 		SOFT 		1:25.925
Button 		McLaren 	SOFT 		1:26.082
Palmer 		Renault 	SOFT 		1:26.189
Verstappen 	Toro Rosso 	MEDIUM 		1:26.539

TOP TIMES DAY 3
Driver 		Team 		Compound 	Lap Time
Hulkenberg 	Force India 	SUPERSOFT 	1:23.110
Grosjean 	Haas 		SOFT 		1:25.874
Raikkonen 	Ferrari 	MEDIUM 		1:25.977
Magnussen 	Renault 	SOFT 		1:26.014
Rosberg 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 		1:26.084
Sainz J 	Toro Rosso 	MEDIUM 		1:26.239
Nasr 		Sauber 		SOFT 		1:26.392
Hamilton 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 		1:26.421
Kvyat 		Red Bull 	MEDIUM 		1:26.497
Massa 		Williams 	MEDIUM 		1:26.712
Button 		McLaren 	MEDIUM 		1:26.919
Haryanto 	Manor 		SOFT 		1:28.249

TOP TIMES DAY 4
Driver 		Team 		Compound 	Lap Time
Raikkonen 	Ferrari 	ULTRASOFT 	1:23.477
Kvyat 		Red Bull 	ULTRASOFT 	1:24.293
Celis 		Force India 	SOFT 		1:24.840
Magnussen 	Renault 	SOFT 		1:25.263
Sainz J 	Toro Rosso 	MEDIUM 		1:25.393
Nasr 		Sauber 		SOFT 		1:26.053
Rosberg 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 		1:26.187
Hamilton 	Mercedes 	MEDIUM 		1:26.295
Massa 		Williams 	SOFT 		1:26.483
Gutierrez 	Haas 		PROTO M 	1:27.802
Haryanto 	Manor 		SOFT 		1:28.266