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Ricciardo fastest in Bahrain as Hamilton slides off

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Ricciardo fastest in Bahrain as Hamilton slides off

Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) McLaren MCL35M. Formula One Testing, Saturday 13th March 2021. Sakhir, Bahrain.

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McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo headed the timesheets as Formula 1 testing reached its midway point on Saturday lunchtime, while World Champion Lewis Hamilton spun into the gravel.

Ricciardo’s time of 1:32.215s was a mere 0.013s slower than the lap he set that ensured he fronted Friday morning’s session at the venue.

Ricciardo used Pirelli’s C3 compound – in effect the Medium tyre – to finish 0.124s clear of Alpine’s Fernando Alonso and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez.

Alonso and Perez both used C2s, effectively the Hard, to achieve their best times of the morning.

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His effort was 1.6s down on Max Verstappen’s quickest effort of the test so far, set on Friday afternoon, and five seconds off last November’s pole position time at the Bahrain Grand Prix.

Hamilton’s off-track excursion

Hamilton had racked up decent mileage for Mercedes after its first day of testing was scuppered by a gearbox issue, balance problems and a seat alteration.

It left Mercedes comfortably at the foot of the lap charts.

Shortly after spins for Carlos Sainz and Nicholas Latifi – both through Turn 7 – Hamilton rotated the W12 through Turn 13 and beached the car in the gravel.

Hamilton extricated himself from the W12 and the session was halted while the car was retrieved and returned to the pits.

The reigning World Champion was able to resume his programme around half an hour later and finished on 58 laps, classifying eighth of the 10 runners.

Gearbox woes at Aston Martin

Aston Martin’s AMR21 was briefly halted early on Friday afternoon due to a minor electrical problem but its Saturday morning session was heavily compromised.

Sebastian Vettel completed only six laps prior to Aston Martin detecting a gearbox-related issue, consigning his AMR21 to the garage for much of the session.

Vettel was able to return to the circuit with around 10 minutes of the session remaining but added just two laps to his tally.

He is set to hand over to Lance Stroll for the afternoon running.

Valuable mileage elsewhere

Second-season driver Latifi recovered from his high-speed spin – having to return to the pits slowly due to a severe flat-spot – to classify fourth on the C5s.

A potential improvement was squandered when he drifted wide at Turn 11.

Rookie Yuki Tsunoda was another to sample the run-off at Turn 11 en route to fifth spot while Ferrari driver Sainz was sixth.

Nikita Mazepin completed the most mileage in the session, racking up 74 laps, to finish seventh, ahead of Hamilton, Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi and Vettel.

Formula 1 pre-season testing will resume at 15:00 local time.

#DriverTeamTimeTyreLaps
1D. RicciardoMcLaren1:32.215S52
2F. AlonsoAlpine1:32.339M60
3S. PerezRed Bull1:32.478H39
4N. LatifiWilliams1:32.541S47
5Y. TsunodaAlphaTauri1:32.684M57
6C. SainzFerrari1:33.072M56
7N. MazepinHaas1:33.101M76
8L. HamiltonMercedes1:33.399M58
9A. GiovinazziAlfa Romeo1:37.911H73
10S. VettelAston Martin1:38.849T10
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