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

Driver
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.

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