Barcelona: Day Three

On the penultimate day of testing, certain teams will be seeking to continue their great performances so far while others attempt to consolidate their loses and try to get back to some form of normality. Jenson Button is among the new faces to the Barcelona test, others include Mark Webber, Romain Grosjean. The thug himself Adrain Sutil hops back into a Formula 1 car for the first time since 2011, lets hope he doesn't get caught speeding and thrown in jail (heaven forbid).

Final Standings

1. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari) – 1m21.875s
2. Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber) – 1m22.160s
3. Romain Grosjean (Lotus) – 1m22.188s
4. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) – 1m22.611s
5. Pastor Maldonado (Williams) – 1m22.675s
6. Valtteri Bottas (Williams) – 1m22.826s
7. Jenson Button (McLaren) – 1m22.840s
8. Adrian Sutil (Force India) – 1m22.877s
9. Mark Webber – 1m23.024s
10. Jean-Eric Vergne (Toro Rosso) – 1m23.366s
11. Max Chilton (Marussia) – 1m25.690s
12. Giedo van der Garde (Caterham) – 1m26.177s

The fastest man at the end of the day was Ferrari's Fernando Alonso who provided a set of laps to put him on top for the first time. The time was close to that of Sergio Perez's McLaren yesterday, something which Perez's team mate Jenson Button can't say. He found himself way down the time sheet. Not as bad as Mark Webber who's Red Bull was way off the pace. Caterham have continued to lose out to their closest rival Marussia, a theme which they have tried to prevent for years. It certainly looks as if the gap is well and truly shut.

However in Button's and Webber's defence, they managed to collect rich quality data, something which Grosjean attempted all day after Kimi Raikkonen's data failure earlier on in the week.

It seems as though I have jinx'd Toro Rosso after their impressive form of late. I'm sure they will recover. Under two seconds separated Jean-Eric Vergne from the quickest lap time.