Kimi Raikkonen was fastest on day three of the second pre-season test at the Circuit De Catalynua \u2013 Barcelona. The Ferrari driver was four tenths seconds faster than his former team-mate Felipe Massa in the Williams and Force India\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg was third.<\/p>\n
The Fin was slightly faster than his team-mate Sebastian Vettel best on the ultra-soft tyres which kept him ahead of Massa. While Hulkenberg was just in touch of Massa\u2019s Williams.<\/p>\n
Raikkonen also tried out the proposed ‘halo’ cockpit head-protection device that will be introduced into Formula 1 in 2017. Raikkonen drove with it for two laps with the aim of increasing protection\u00a0from flying debris following a series of deaths and injuries across motorsport.<\/p>\n
Massa put in a good performance in for Williams going second fastest just under two tenths down on his former team-mate. Williams pace may suggest they have made major gains over the winter. Hulkenberg set his fastest time on the super soft tyres to go third with his ultra-soft tyre time.<\/p>\n
Max Verstappen also used the ultra-soft tyres to go fourth fastest for Toro Rosso. Both Mercedes drivers focused on the medium-compound tyres with Rosberg going fifth fastest while Hamilton was eleventh fastest as he is believed to have been focusing on his long runs.<\/p>\n
Both McLaren and Sauber managed to do over a 100 laps with McLarens Fernando Alonso setting their best time of the winter on the super soft tyres.<\/p>\n
Manor struggled with Pascal Wherlein only managing 48 laps. Haas fared better doing 78 laps but it was far from a smooth day with Romain Grosjean going of either side of the lunch break.<\/p>\n
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Day three fastest times <\/strong><\/p>\n 1 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1:22.785 Kimi Raikkonen was fastest on day three of the second pre-season test at the Circuit De Catalynua \u2013 Barcelona. The Ferrari driver was four tenths seconds faster than his former team-mate Felipe Massa in the Williams and Force India\u2019s Nico Hulkenberg was third. The Fin was slightly faster than his team-mate Sebastian Vettel best on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[42,496,699,700,707,709,741,754,882,1068,1208,1283,1287,1298,1422,1424,1495,1637,1642,1656,1707,1770,1773,1843,1973,2025,2149,2152],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports","tag-42","tag-daniil-kvyat","tag-felipe-massa","tag-felipe-nasr","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-ferrari","tag-force-india","tag-formula-one","tag-haas","tag-jolyon-palmer","tag-manor","tag-max-verstappen","tag-mclaren","tag-mercedes","tag-nico-hulkenberg","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-pascal-wehrlein","tag-red-bull","tag-red-bull-racing","tag-renault","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-sauber","tag-sauber-ferrari","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-testing","tag-toro-rosso","tag-williams","tag-williams-mercedes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2 Felipe Massa (Brz) Williams 1:23.193
\n3 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Force India 1:23.251
\n4 Max Verstappen (Ned) Toro Rosso 1:23.382
\n5\u00a0 Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes 1:24.126
\n6 Felipe Nasr (Brz) Sauber 1:24.768
\n7 Fernando Alonso (Spa) McLaren 1:24.870
\n8 Pascal Wehrlein (Ger) Manor 1:24.913
\n9 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Red Bull 1:25.141
\n10 Jolyon Palmer (GB) Renault 1:26.224
\n11 Lewis Hamilton (GB) Mercedes 1:26.488
\n12 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Haas 1:27.196<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"