Nico Hulkenberg was fastest on the third day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalyuna \u2013 Barcelona for Force India. The German set the fastest lap of the day a 1:23.110 on the super soft tyres.<\/p>\n
The time was set on the super soft tyres which are slower than the ultra soft tyres with him only two tenths slower. Yesterday Sebastian Vettel led on the same type of tyre. Romain Grosjean continued the impressive start for Haas going second fastest.<\/p>\n
Hulkenberg told Sky Sports News \u201cI wouldn’t get too excited at these early stages. Today we tried a bit more to see and test where our package stands at the moment more that the competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimi Raikkonen was third fastest for Ferrari. However, it was not plain sailing for the Fin due to fuel system checks, but had a productive afternoon, clocking up close to 80 laps and finishing third on the timesheets, fractionally ahead of the Renault of Kevin Magnussen.<\/p>\n
Magnussen also suffered technical problems but managed to get into triple digits. The majority of his laps were completed during the afternoon.<\/p>\n
Nico Rosberg was faster than his team-mate Lewis Hamilton on track after Mercedes opted to split the driving over the next two days. Hamilton completed the most mileage on track bringing the teams total to 162 more than all the other teams.<\/p>\n
Rosberg warned his rivals \u201cWe haven’t shown our cards yet. We’re still holding back – and for sure the car is quick. The opposition also seems to be quick, so how quick we are nobody knows for now but we are confident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carlos Sainz was the busiest driver completing 162 laps for Toro Rosso which was 46 more than Magnussen.<\/p>\n
Rio Haryanto\u2019s first appearance as a F1 driver for Manor ended in twelfth fastest five seconds off the pace. Red Bull\u2019s Daniil Kvyat was narrowly ahead of the Williams of Felipe Massa and McLaren\u2019s Jenson Button.<\/p>\n
Button could only managed 51 laps the fewest of any driver after a hydraulic leak brought his running to an end. Haryanto caused the only red flag of the day.<\/p>\n
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Testing Day Three<\/strong><\/p>\n Nico Hulkenberg was fastest on the third day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalyuna \u2013 Barcelona for Force India. The German set the fastest lap of the day a 1:23.110 on the super soft tyres. The time was set on the super soft tyres which are slower than the ultra soft tyres with<\/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":[42,369,664,699,709,741,754,882,921,1031,1111,1115,1287,1424,1707,1770,1843,1973,2025,2149,2152],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-reports","tag-42","tag-carlos-sainz-jr","tag-f1","tag-felipe-massa","tag-ferrari","tag-force-india","tag-formula-one","tag-haas","tag-honda","tag-jenson-button","tag-kevin-magnuessen","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-mclaren","tag-nico-rosberg","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-sauber","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-testing","tag-toro-rosso","tag-williams","tag-williams-mercedes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f1vault.co.uk\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\n2.\u00a0Romain Grosjean, Haas, soft tyres, 1:25.874, 82 laps;
\n3. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1:25.977, medium tyres, 77 laps.
\n4.\u00a0Kevin Magnussen, Renault, 1:26.014, soft tyres, 111 laps;
\n5.\u00a0Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1:26.084, medium tyres, 74 laps;
\n6.\u00a0Carlos Sainz, 1:26.239, medium tyres, 161 laps;
\n7.\u00a0Felipe Nasr, Sauber, 1:26.392, medium tyres, 115 laps;
\n8.\u00a0Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:26.421, medium tyres, 88 laps;
\n9.\u00a0Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull, 1:26.497, medium tyres, 74 laps;
\n10.\u00a0Felipe Massa, Williams, 1:26.712, medium tyres,109 laps;
\n11.\u00a0Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:26.919, medium tyres, 51 laps;
\n12.\u00a0Rio Haryanto, Manor, 1:28.249, 78 laps;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"