F1 Pre-Season Testing 2015: Times, News and Reports from Day 3 in Barcelona

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Published: February 21, 2015

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Lotus took more positives from their pre-season testing in Barcelona on Saturday as Pastor Maldonado finished fastest for the second time in the space of three days.

The 29-year-old topped the charts with a time of one minute and 24.348 seconds in the afternoon session, recording 104 laps in total and brimming with confidence following his Day 3 performance, per the official Formula 1 website:

We achieved a lot today and it was great to complete so many laps and end the day as the fastest car. Certainly, I feel much more confident in the E23 and we’re learning a lot about it with all the laps we’re completing.

I’m able to push when needed and everything about the whole package feels a lot more together than last year, especially if you remember where we were in terms of performance and reliability during the pre-season in 2014.  We still have a lot of work to do, but we’re making very good progress so we’re all very positive about the work being done.

Seventeen-year-old Max Verstappen was less than four-hundredths of a second slower than the Venezuelan and registered a massive 129 laps on Day 3 to give Toro Rosso a much-needed boost.

Both he and Maldonado recorded their fastest times on supersoft tyres, while Lewis Hamilton continued his progress with a finish as third-fastest despite not managing to break the 1:26.00 mark.

Here's how the fastest drivers finished on Day 3 in Catalunya, provided by Sky Sports:



It was a mixed day for Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who spun out the SF15-T on Turn 4 in his opening lap of the day but came back to finish with 105 laps and a fastest time of one minute and 26.407 seconds.

The German admitted the slow start was due to a mere lack of concentration and "not being awake" as opposed to any sort of fault with the vehicle, per Autosport:

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