It’s being a hard beginning of the pre-season testing for Red Bull. Their car, driven today by Daniel Ricciardo, has stopped on track right after coming out and they’ve just been able to do 3 laps at the moment.

Today was the first day on their new car for 6 drivers: Ricciardo (Red Bull), Alonso (Ferrari), Hülkenberg (Force India), Massa (Williams), Sutil (Sauber) and Frijns (test driver for Caterham).

The first red flag came out after the Spaniard stopped his Ferrari on track. It wasn’t an important problem, as he has been able to go back on track some minutes later and set the second fastest time, behind Button. Kevin Magnussen will take over his seat this afternoon. After them comes Hamilton, who’s been able to do 45 laps, compensating for his accident on Tuesday.

As we’ve said already, Red Bull is still having serious problems after his engine has failed to work properly once again. Daniel Ricciardo has had to stop his car right after he came out to the track and after that he’s just been able to do two more laps, none setting time. The only Renault-powered team with a timed lap today is the Toro Rosso, but it’s been a quite slow one. However, the Italian team has been able to do more than 20 laps so far. Just 8 for Caterham.

The third red flag appeared after Hülkenberg stopped his Force India with just 6 laps done. The Sauber and the Williams are having no problems so far.

Time-sheet at 13:50:

Pos. Driver Number Driver Team Lap Time Laps
1 #22 Jenson Button Mclaren-Mercedes 1:25:030 40
2 #14 Fernando Alonso Scuderia Ferrari 1:25.495 32
3 #44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:25.973 45
4 #19 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1:26:435 36
5 #99 Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 1:30.161 28
6 #27 Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:30.205 6
7 #25 Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 1:48.151 22
8 – Robin Frijns Caterham Renault No time 8
9 #3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Renault No time 3

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