Formula 1 has back to the work today with Mercedes on top. They set more than 160 laps and set an incredible lap with soft tyres. Bottas finished second with ultra soft compound, as Fernando Alonso put his McLaren in third position.
The action has comeback at Barcelona-Catalunya race track, under a great sunny day, the first day of the last week of testing was a peaceful one, with not many mechanical issues. Only Haas had some issues with Gutierrez who finished 11th. Manor had a miserable problems with Mercedes engine, which only let Haryanto do 45 laps in the Catalan track.
Red Bull, Renault and Ferrari has focused on solve the mechanical problems that they cars still having. Problems that in Force India don’t have. Nico Hulkenberg made 121 laps testing a lot of things, finishing on 8th position, just in front of Max Verstappen who drive with 2016 new Toro Rosso livery.
New was also the Sauber, a new car with only 4 days to test them, but it doesn’t mean anything. Felipe Nasr completed a 103 laps today. Positive things also in McLaren with a 93 laps on his back today, Fernando Alonso was happy to have resolved all the issues that they had on Day 3 and day 4.
Fastest car today was the Mercedes, who showed a great pace with soft tyres, doing a similar lap time like Ferrari did last week, but with ultra soft compound.