Lewis completes 77 laps on a wet first day of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit
Date: Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Driver: Lewis Hamilton
Circuit: Bahrain International Circuit
Circuit Length: 5.412 km
Laps Completed: 77
Distance Covered: 417 km
Best Lap Time: 1:31.156
Following the Bahrain Grand Prix, Formula One teams have remained in Bahrain for this year’s first in-season #test. #lewishamilton was behind the wheel of the Mercedes-AMG #f1 W10 EQ Power+, completing 77 laps on the opening day.
The team worked on a number of #test items today, looking at the cooling of the car and collecting aero data
Rainfall interrupted the session, cutting today’s programme short
Mercedes-Benz Power Units completed a total of 844 km today
Rights-free imagery of the day is available for download on our media site
Lewis Hamilton
We were driving on the same track we drove all weekend, but due to the conditions we faced completely different obstacles today. Both the temperatures and the wind were different to what we experienced last week, which is why this is actually quite a cool track to drive as it brought some variation.
Andrew Shovlin
The rain was a bit of a surprise! It wasn’t forecast but ended up costing us four or five hours of our programme. We selected the tyres for this #test back in December and not expecting rain, we chose only dry tyres. So, once the track was properly wet we didn’t have any option but to wait for it to dry again. However, it’s not been a wasted day, we got through a few aero items in the morning and have managed to collect useful data on some development items. We’re going to reorganise our plans a bit for tomorrow, we’re not going to manage to get everything done that we hoped but with decent weather we should be able to cover most of it.
Position
Driver
Team
Best Lap Time
Laps Completed
1
Max Verstappen (33)
Red Bull
1:29.379
62
2
Mick Schumacher (29)
Ferrari
1:29.976
56
3
Lando Norris (4)
McLaren
1:30.800
22
4
Romain Grosjean (8)
Haas
1:30.982
42
5
Alex Albon (23)
Toro Rosso
1:31.089
71
6
Lewis Hamilton (44)
Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
1:31.156
77
7
Daniel Ricciardo (3)
Renault
1:31.584
45
8
Lance Stroll (18)
Racing Point
1:31.964
33
9
Carlos Sainz (55)
McLaren
1:32.059
32
10
Antonio Giovinazzi (99)
Alfa Romeo
1:32.067
53
11
Fernando Alonso (14)
McLaren
1:32.207
64
12
Pietro Fittipaldi (51)
Haas
1:32.708
20
13
Robert Kubica (88)
Williams
1:33.290
19
14
Daniil Kvyat (26)
Toro Rosso
1:33.653
45
15
George Russell (63)
Williams
1:33.682
27
