Fastest lap times 1st day of 2017 F1 testing in Barcelona

The first day of testing for the upcoming 2017 F1 season has been kicked-off on the Catalunya Circuit!

All 10 brand new cars where tested today. Yes Manor didn't make it until now. The team who drove the most laps was Ferrari with Sebastian Vettel behind the brand new steering wheel of the Ferrari SF70H.

He drove a stunning 128 laps! without any trouble and only 0.1 sec slower then Mercedes who was even quicker.

Fastest on this 1st day of 4 days of testing was Lewis Hamilton driving the silver arrow Mercedes W08. He drove a 1:21.765 min on the Spanish circuit.

That time is only 0.095 sec slower then the official F1 lap record that's been set by Kimi Raikkonen 8 years ago in the Ferrari F2008! F1 cars back then had a normally aspirated V8 2.4l engine and where only 605 kg instead of the 728 kg of today.

The Mercedes team tested their version of the "Shark fin" engine cover. The fin was much smaller then other cars have, but it had a chimney to get a better airflow through the engine cover. Lewis drove 73 laps on Circuit de Catalunya in Spain.

3rd fastest was un-retired F1 driver Felipe Massa in the white/blue Williams. He drove a stunning 103 laps and was only 0.3 sec slower then 2016 F1 champions Mercedes.

Other teams where working well today. Only Red Bull and McLaren had some trouble early in the morning. McLaren had to biggest troubles and had to work hard to replace the Honda engine and could only do some laps at the end of the day.

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Fastest Lap times 1st day of testing 2017 Circuit de Catalunya

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