(Williams F1 Team via Twitter)
Felipe Massa led the way in this morning's test session in at the Bahrain International Circuit. The Brazilian set the fastest time of 1m 37.224s. Force India's Nico Hulkenberg continued to show how much progress the Silverstone based squad has made over the winter as was second setting the fastest time of 1m 38.000s.
Nico Rosberg was third for Mercedes AMG F1. The German was 1.333s behind Felipe Massa. It was a great morning for Toro Rosso as Daniil Kvyat was fourth fastest and the quickest of the Renault powered teams.
Kevin Magnussen was fifth fastest for McLaren. The Danish driver has shown fantastic pace during his time testing the new MP4-29.
On his final day in the F14T before the Australian Grand Prix Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen was 6th for the Italian team just ahead of Caterham's Marcus Ericsson. Jules Bianchi 8th fastest for Marussia while Romain Grosjean was 9th for Lotus as he kicked off his final two days of running in E22.
It has been another horrendous day for reigning world champions Red Bull Racing as Sebastian Vettel, who took over running from Daniel Ricciardo today could only manage for corners in the RB10 before the car came to a halt. The car returned to the pit-lane on the back of a low loader and when the team tried to get the car back out on track it once again ground to a halt as Vettel came headed down the pit-lane.
It is going to be an extremely busy final few hours of running today for the teams and tomorrow will be an incredibly busy as it is the final day of winter testing before the pack up process begins and the teams head to Australia.
It is unclear who the favourite is heading to Melbourne. Mercedes have been installed as the favourites but Force India, McLaren, Force India and Williams look in great shape. Ferrari also look in great shape too so we'll just have to wait and see what happens in Melbourne.
©Ben Johnston 2014
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