This weekend at Barcelona's circuit Montmelo-Catalunya ended the third and final pre-season test session of the Formula 1. The best results of the four days was equally divided between the pilots Williams and Mercedes (two and two, respectively), but the overall record of the four-day workout left for the current world Champions. Nico Rosberg on Friday drove round W06 on for 1 minute and 22,792 seconds, and the result was shown on the Soft tyres, but not on the fastest part of Supersoft!
The best of the teams Valtteri Bottas at Williams — behind the silver medalist of 2014 by 1.2 seconds, which caused in the paddock bout of pessimism. Director of Red Bull boss Christian Horner called the Mercedes pace heralding in big trouble and even cause depression. However, in the following days the competitors caught up and managed to close the gap and overtake the German cars.
In General, statistics indicate that 2015 year tests were significantly fewer problems than a year earlier. All teams, including McLaren, Honda, has managed to more or less elaborate planned programme, pass a full race distance and collect information about the behaviour of the new machines. The most serious incident was an accident of Fernando Alonso, which we wrote about last week. doctors must give the green light to the champion 2005 and 2006, so that he could take part in the Australian Grand Prix less than two weeks.