By Sam Cooper
March 1 2007

The team used its three divers to complete its testing program at the Bahrain international circuit, which it finished under 0.6 seconds behind main rivals Ferrari. However over the last few days the reliability issues have not happened so frequently.

On day 2 of the Bahrain testing McLaren Sidelined Double World Champion Fernando Alonso and left Britain Lewis Hamilton and Spain’s Pedro De La Rosa completed day 2’s testing, completing 107 laps in total, Lewis completing 55 and Pedro completing 52.

Mclaren sent Alonso “undercover” to get a look at Ferrari’s car and what their doing for their Australian Grand Prix set up, as Ferraris Felipe Massa stopped out on track which looks to be a misfire which stopped his testing session temporally.

Worryingly McLaren are still 0.6 seconds slower than Ferrari, lets hope that Mclaren are sandbagging their true performance.

the second days testing times are shown below.

Bahrain International Circuit - Bahrain 28 February 2007

Position	Constructor	Time	Laps
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	01:30.640	100
2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	01:31.178	55
3	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	01:31.490	94
4	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	01:31.967	109
5	Pedro De La Rosa	McLaren	01:31.971	52
6	Hekki Kovalainen	Renault	01:32.068	30
7	Nick Heidfeld	BMW	01:32.264	73
8	Jenson Button	Honda	01:32.293	73
9	Vitantonio Liuzzi	STR	01:32.359	47
10	Robert Kubica	BMW	01:32.648	54
11	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	01:32.650	61
12	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	01:32.837	100
13	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	01:33.054	85
14	David Coulthard	Red Bull	01:33.146	52
15	Mark Webber	Red Bull	01:33.238	53
16	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	01:33.384	33

On the third day of testing Spain’s reigning double world champion Fernando Alonso and fellow countryman and Vodafone McLaren test driver Pedro De La Rosa completed McLarens test program. The Spanish drivers completed 203 laps all together, Fernando completing 113 laps, and Pedro De La Rosa completing 90 laps.

McLaren had a trouble free day on the final day of testing at the Bahrain international circuit; let’s hope that all their grand prix will have the same reliability that they enjoyed today.

the final days times are shown below

Bahrain International Circuit - Bahrain 1 March 2007

Position	Constructor	Time	Laps
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	01:29.989	45
2	Hekki Kovalainen	Renault	01:30.384	61
3	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	01:30.498	64
4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	01:30.534	77
5	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	01:30.564	113
6	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	01:31.067		118
7	Pedro De La Rosa	McLaren	01:31.354	90
8	Scott Speed	STR	01:31.500	124
9	David Coulthard	Red Bull	01:31.589	66
10	Nick Heidfeld	BMW	01:31.720	83
11	Mark Webber	Red Bull	01:31.742	92
12	Robert Kubica	BMW	01:31.751	98
13	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	01:31.791	81
14	Jenson Button	Honda	01:31.837	97
15	Frank Montangy	Toyota	01:32.264	119
16	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri	01:33.357	53

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