Date	Wednesday May 13 2015
Driver	Jenson Button
Location	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (4.655km)
Laps/km	100/466km
Best laptime	1m26.927s

Programme

An extremely productive final day in Barcelona.

Jenson took over driving duties today, and successfully ran through all the items on today’s run-plan. These included running measuring rakes on the car in the morning to capture aerodynamic data, and a lengthy series of mechanical and aerodynamic balance changes, with modifications made to the front wing and suspension in order to provide our engineers with detailed data about MP4-30.

The team also carried out investigative work ahead of Monaco (low-speed set-up work) and Canada (low-downforce rear wing), which equips us with some useful information ahead of these two extreme races.

Furthermore, Jenson also reported that the set-up work undertaken today had gone a long way to curing the rear-end handling imbalance that afflicted him in Sunday’s race.

TODAY’S UNOFFICIAL TESTING TIMES

1	Jolyn Palmer	Lotus	1m26.080s	87 laps
2	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes	1m26.497s	137 laps
3	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull	1m26.683s	74 laps
4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	1m26.927s	100 laps
5	Alex Lynn	Williams	1m26.967s	52 laps
6	Esteban Ocon	Force India	1m27.520s	93 laps
7	Esteban Gutierrez	Ferrari	1m27.930s	119 laps
8	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	1m27.997s	126 laps
9	Rafaelle Marciello	Sauber	1m28.829s	74 laps

 

What’s next

We travel to F1’s two glorious epicentres – Woking and Monte-Carlo…

Test dates

Two days (May 12-13).