Kimi Raikkonen kept Ferrari on top of the timesheets as he set the quickest time on Wednesday morning during Formula 1 testing at a hot and dry Hungaroring.
Ferrari reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi headed both sessions on Tuesday and Raikkonen vaulted to the front early on, before working his way down to a 1:16.171, as he also finished with the most laps under his belt, amassing 69, one short of a full race distance.
Raikkonen’s best lap left him 2.280s quicker than Williams’ Robert Kubica, who returned to action aboard the FW41, a year on from his return to the paddock with Renault.
Lando Norris continued testing duties in his role as McLaren’s reserve driver and finished third, three-tenths behind Kubica, and held a similar gap over Sean Gelael.
Gelael switched from the Pirelli-run Toro Rosso STR13 over to the car entered by the team itself, with Brendon Hartley taking over tyre testing duties.
Mercedes-backed Formula 2 title leader George Russell was fifth, while Tuesday pacesetter Giovinazzi switched to Sauber’s C37 and placed sixth.
GP3 race winner Nikita Mazepin caused the only red flag of the four-hour session when his Force India VJM11 stopped at Turn 11, and he finished seventh on the leaderboard.
Renault test and development driver Artem Markelov had his first experience in a current-spec Formula 1 car and placed eighth, in front of Red Bull simulator driver Jake Dennis.
Tyre tester Hartley rounded out the field; Haas is not present at this week’s test.
Formula 1 testing will resume for a further four hours at 14:00 local time.
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| 1 | K. Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1:16.171 | 69 | |
| 2 | R. Kubica | Williams | 1:18.451 | 2.280 | 38 |
| 3 | L. Norris | McLaren | 1:18.768 | 2.597 | 50 |
| 4 | S. Gelael | Toro Rosso | 1:19.046 | 2.875 | 61 |
| 5 | G. Russell | Mercedes | 1:19.156 | 2.985 | 56 |
| 6 | A. Giovinazzi | Sauber | 1:19.413 | 3.242 | 64 |
| 7 | N. Mazepin | Force India | 1:20.016 | 3.845 | 27 |
| 8 | A. Markelov | Renault | 1:20.054 | 3.883 | 49 |
| 9 | J. Dennis | Red Bull | 1:20.177 | 4.006 | 56 |
| 10 | B. Hartley | Toro Rosso | 1:20.221 | 4.050 | 67 |
