(PHOTO FREDERIC LE FLOC'H / DPPI - Renault Sport F1)
Formula One winter testing finishes in Bahrain this afternoon, however only ten team's will be heading home on Monday.
Reigning world champions Red Bull Racing have notified the FIA that they intend to remain at the Sakhir circuit in the Gulf state tomorrow in order to conduct a 100KM 'filming day'. The team are allowed to do this however they are not allowed to carry out any development work on their car.
The 2014 winter testing programme has been an extremely difficult time for the Milton Keynes based outfit as the have suffered a whole host of different problems with their new RB10.
Although the team will remain at the circuit tomorrow they are only allowed to run the test with Pirelli's promotional tyres and not their 2014 specification rubber. They aren't the only team to have carried out 'filming day's' as the Lotus F1 Team conducted a 'shakedown' filming day prior to heading to Bahrain at the Jerez circuit in Spain.
There are only two weeks until the first race of the season in Melbourne and it is expected that a number of teams will struggle over the course of the race weekend. McLaren had wanted to run a host of new parts on the MP4-29 for the final two days of testing but unfortunately this was not possible so they will instead run the new parts for the first time in FP1 in Melbourne.
©Ben Johnston 2014
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