| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, March 31st 2014, 13:29 GMT |
Red Bull insists it will never censor its drivers, after Sebastian Vettel's criticism of Formula 1's new engines caused controversy in Malaysia.
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| Monday, March 31st 2014, 12:51 GMT |
Sebastien Loeb Racing has signed former European Le Mans Series title winner Jan Charouz for its return to the series in 2014.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, March 31st 2014, 15:30 GMT |
Chip Ganassi remains cautious about the likelihood of his team running a fifth entry for Indy Lights champion Sage Karam at this year's Indianapolis 500
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, March 30th 2014, 14:08 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says the contact from Kevin Magnussen on lap two of the Malaysian Grand Prix "destroyed" the second race of his 2014 Formula 1 season
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, March 30th 2014, 13:58 GMT |
Andrew Jordan made it two wins from two starts in the 2014 British Touring Car Championship in race two at Brands Hatch
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, March 30th 2014, 15:54 GMT |
Former British Formula 3 champion Marc Hynes has been excluded from the second British Touring Car Championship race at Brands Hatch, as several drivers were penalised
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, March 29th 2014, 14:58 GMT |
Romain Grosjean believes he could have gone through to Q3 in the Malaysian Grand Prix had he not been distracted by his first proper qualifying attempt of the year.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, March 29th 2014, 15:06 GMT |
Ryan Briscoe edged out Helio Castroneves to top the timing screens in a windy third IndyCar practice session at St Petersburg.
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| Saturday, March 29th 2014, 15:09 GMT |
Peugeot's new 208 T16 dominated day one of the Acropolis Rally on its top-level competition debut, with Craig Breen leading at the end of the leg.
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, March 28th 2014, 13:37 GMT |
Former grand prix driver Jerome D'Ambrosio is joining Bentley for its assault on the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2014
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, March 28th 2014, 15:08 GMT |
James Hinchcliffe has opened the 2014 IndyCar season by setting the fastest time in the first practice session for this weekend's curtain-raiser at St Petersburg.
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, March 28th 2014, 15:38 GMT |
Renault insists customer status is not hurting the Lotus Formula 1 team, as problems with the reliability of the E22 continued in Malaysia on Friday.
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, March 27th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
Newly-retired World Endurance Champion Allan McNish will have a dual role with Audi Sport working with its drivers and international governing bodies.
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, March 27th 2014, 14:27 GMT |
Felipe Massa says it is "too late" to do anything about the noise of the latest generation of Formula 1 engines, following criticism from fans and drivers after the first race.
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| By Hal Ridge | Thursday, March 27th 2014, 15:51 GMT |
Derek Tohill will partner former Super1600 event winner Krzysztof Skorupski in the World Rallycross Championship this season, driving for the LD Motorsports World RX team.
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 14:01 GMT |
Peugeot has confirmed Carlos Sainz and Cyril Despres will spearhead its Dakar Rally return in 2015.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 14:44 GMT |
Graham Rahal believes that the 'back to basics' approach of new race engineer Bill Pappas will help him move forward in IndyCar after a disappointing 2013 season.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Dan Cross | Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams believes its switch to Mercedes engines was an astute judgement call rather than luck.
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| By Hal Ridge | Tuesday, March 25th 2014, 14:49 GMT |
Frenchman Fabien Pailler will race a brand new Pailler Competition Peugeot 208 Supercar at the British and French rounds of the new-for-2014 World Rallycross Championship
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, March 25th 2014, 14:41 GMT |
Italian Andrea Belicchi will drive for the Rebellion Racing prototype squad for a seventh consecutive season in this year's World Endurance Championship, the team has confirmed.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Tuesday, March 25th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Formula 1's Strategy Group can fill the void left by the Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA), according to Williams' deputy team principal Claire Williams
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| By Sam Tremayne | Monday, March 24th 2014, 14:28 GMT |
Silverstone has written to British Prime Minister David Cameron to seek confirmation that the UK government is not considering financial support for the proposed Circuit of Wales
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| Monday, March 24th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
Cal Crutchlow revealed he rode to sixth in MotoGP's Qatar season-opener despite a significant electronics failure
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, March 24th 2014, 14:30 GMT |
The new Strakka Dome LMP2 coupe ran for the first time today ahead of the official World Endurance Championship test at Paul Ricard at the end of the week
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| By Matt James | Sunday, March 23rd 2014, 09:41 GMT |
British Touring Car Championship racer Dan Welch believes his fully revamped Proton will help him move towards the front of the grid this season.
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| Saturday, March 22nd 2014, 21:58 GMT |
Valentino Rossi says his fourth row starting berth for MotoGP's season-opener in Qatar disguises the 'good step' he has made compared to 2013
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| Sunday, March 23rd 2014, 10:33 GMT |
Bradley Smith believes the first front row start of his MotoGP career proves Yamaha's 2014 tyre woes have been overplayed.
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| Saturday, March 22nd 2014, 11:41 GMT |
Sebastien Loeb set the pace for Citroen in the first official test of this year's World Touring Car Championship at Valencia
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| Saturday, March 22nd 2014, 12:20 GMT |
Sergio Campana will switch to Zele Racing for this year's AutoGP championship
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, March 22nd 2014, 12:28 GMT |
IndyCar is talking to event organisers in Brasilia about a possible return to Brazil in 2015
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| Friday, March 21st 2014, 14:45 GMT |
Jon Lancaster topped the final day of pre-season GP2 testing in Bahrain by less than a tenth of a second over Alexander Rossi.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, March 21st 2014, 15:08 GMT |
Lotus thinks it may have to wait until the Spanish Grand Prix before it is able to fight near the front of the Formula 1 grid again
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| Friday, March 21st 2014, 15:57 GMT |
Aleix Espargaro maintained his remarkable start to the 2014 season by once again heading the field in second practice for the Qatar Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, March 20th 2014, 12:33 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas has no doubts the best is yet to come from Williams, after the team's encouraging return to Formula 1 form in the Australia Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, March 20th 2014, 12:45 GMT |
Red Bull has formally lodged its appeal with the FIA over Daniel Ricciardo's disqualification from the Australian Grand Prix, AUTOSPORT has learned
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| Thursday, March 20th 2014, 14:57 GMT |
Rio Haryanto and Caterham team-mate Alexander Rossi locked out the top two spots on the second day of GP2's final pre-season test in Bahrain.
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| Wednesday, March 19th 2014, 14:39 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen has admitted that Ferrari's brake-by-wire system is at the heart of his difficulties in the early part of the 2014 Formula 1 season
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| Wednesday, March 19th 2014, 14:44 GMT |
Alexander Rossi put Caterham at the top of the timesheets after the first day of GP2's final pre-season test in Bahrain
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| Wednesday, March 19th 2014, 14:45 GMT |
Aleix Espargaro says he is ready to take on the MotoGP Factory riders for outright victories with Forward's Open class Yamaha
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| By Peter Mills | Tuesday, March 18th 2014, 13:53 GMT |
Team Engstler has announced it will renew its commitment to the World Touring Car Championship by entering two BMWs in this year's TC2 class
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| By Matt Beer | Tuesday, March 18th 2014, 14:00 GMT |
The company that produces the fuel-flow meters at the heart of the row over Daniel Ricciardo's Australian Grand Prix exclusion says it has received "positive" feedback from the FIA.
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| By Matt James | Tuesday, March 18th 2014, 14:37 GMT |
Jason Plato believes this year's British Touring Car Championship will provide some "classic" racing.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, March 17th 2014, 15:19 GMT |
The mysterious late caution period in Sunday's Sprint Cup race Bristol was the result of human error, according to series officials.
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, March 17th 2014, 15:25 GMT |
New McLaren racing director Eric Boullier hailed an "incredible weekend" from "brilliant" rookie Kevin Magnussen, who scored a podium finish on his Formula 1 debut at the Australian Grand Prix.
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| Monday, March 17th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Gary Bettenhausen, a 25-time Indianapolis 500 participant and a member of one of US single-seater racing's prominent families, has died in Indiana at the age of 72.
Bettenhausen, son of 1940s and '50s racing great Tony, was a regular at the 500 between 1968 and '94, qualifying for the race on all but five occasions.
He never managed to win, although he made a place for himself in the event's history books by becoming one of the small club of drivers to have set the fastest qualifying time for the race without starting from pole.
In Bettenhausen's case, it happened in 1991, 30 years to the day after his father was killed at the same track. His 224.468mph effort was better than Rick Mears' 224.113mph pole time, but came 24 hours too late.
His brother Tony Jr, who also raced and owned a CART team, observed at the time that "it was typical Bettenhausen luck. High speed. Wrong day."
Bettenhausen's best result at Indy came in 1980, when he raced through the field from 32nd on the grid to finish third, although he led for 138 laps in 1972 before dropping out with an ignition failure.
In addition to his IndyCar exploits, Bettenhausen also dabbled in NASCAR and made eight Winston Cup starts; a dalliance that resulted in four top-10 finishes and a best result of fourth at Michigan in 1974.
Tony Jr was killed in a plane crash in 2000, while another brother, Merle, was badly injured in his only Champ Car start at Michigan in 1972.
| By Gary Watkins | Friday, March 14th 2014, 15:06 GMT |
Ford-powered Daytona Prototype machinery continued its domination of free practice for tomorrow's Sebring 12 Hours in the final session ahead qualifying this afternoon
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| By Scott Mitchell | Friday, March 14th 2014, 15:16 GMT |
Ex-Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello will work with Brazilian protege Gaetano di Mauro in BRDC Formula 4 this season.
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| Friday, March 14th 2014, 15:26 GMT |
Wiechers will sit out this year's World Touring Car Championship after failing to secure a deal to run in the top category.
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, March 13th 2014, 14:49 GMT |
Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Marco Werner has purchased a 1988 Formula 1 Tyrrell 017 that he hopes to race in BOSS GP
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| Thursday, March 13th 2014, 13:06 GMT |
Jon Lancaster narrowly edged Johnny Cecotto and Jolyon Palmer to set the pace on the third and final day of GP2 pre-season testing in Abu Dhabi.
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, March 13th 2014, 15:29 GMT |
Scott Dixon and Chip Ganassi Racing led the way in first practice for this weekend's Sebring 12 Hours round of the United SportsCar Championship.
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| Wednesday, March 12th 2014, 13:53 GMT |
Jolyon Palmer continued his strong start to his 2014 GP2 preparations by topping the second day of pre-season testing in Abu Dhabi
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, March 12th 2014, 13:15 GMT |
Porsche "would have had no other alternative" but to enter Formula 1 if its parent company had prevented it from taking on stablemate Audi at Le Mans, it has revealed
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, March 12th 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Formula 1's 2014 regulations will favour the more experienced drivers, according to Felipe Massa
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| By Peter Mills | Tuesday, March 11th 2014, 14:39 GMT |
The Munnich Motorsport team has committed to entering two Chevrolet Cruzes in the forthcoming World Touring Car Championship
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| Tuesday, March 11th 2014, 14:38 GMT |
Jolyon Palmer set the pace on the first day of GP2 2014 pre-season testing in Abu Dhabi.
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| By Edd Straw and Pablo Elizalde | Tuesday, March 11th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Force India is aiming to develop a young driver scheme similar to that of Formula 1 rival McLaren in order to find new talent
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| By Scott Mitchell | Sunday, March 9th 2014, 00:23 GMT |
Sebastien Ogier dominated Rally Mexico's afternoon loop on Saturday as Volkswagen home in on a one-two finish and Thierry Neuville edges closer to a maiden podium for Hyundai.
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, March 9th 2014, 11:09 GMT |
Pastor Maldonado believes he made the right decision to join Lotus for the 2014 Formula 1 season, despite the team's disastrous performance in pre-season testing
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| By Edd Straw | Sunday, March 9th 2014, 14:21 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen is adapting well to the demands of Formula 1, according to McLaren racing director Eric Boullier
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, March 8th 2014, 10:20 GMT |
IndyCar outfit Rahal Letterman Lanigan is unlikely to run a third car at this year's Indianapolis 500
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| Saturday, March 8th 2014, 11:09 GMT |
Stefano Coletti will remain in GP2 for a fourth season after switching to Racing Engineering for 2014
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, March 8th 2014, 11:35 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen and Valtteri Bottas believe drivers will make more of a difference in getting the most out of this year's new breed of Formula 1 car
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, March 7th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
British sportscar driver James Rossiter is in the frame for a seat with the Ram Racing Ferrari squad at this year's Le Mans 24 Hours.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, March 7th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
A bullish Lewis Hamilton believes he has a car to triumph in Formula 1 this year, as he heads to the Australian Grand Prix as favourite.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, March 7th 2014, 15:48 GMT |
IndyCar has overhauled the qualifying procedure for the Indianapolis 500 in the hope of creating more fan appeal and increasing TV viewership.
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| Thursday, March 6th 2014, 13:54 GMT |
MotoGP is set to introduce a third class with immediate effect following the fallout caused by Ducati's switch from factory to Open entrant.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, March 6th 2014, 12:47 GMT |
Eric Boullier was first approached by Martin Whitmarsh about a move to McLaren prior to the management shake-up that brought Ron Dennis back to power, it has been revealed
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| By Marcus Simmons | Thursday, March 6th 2014, 15:49 GMT |
Tatiana Calderon has joined the Renault-powered Signature team to form an all-Colombian line-up for the Formula 3 European Championship
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| Wednesday, March 5th 2014, 14:46 GMT |
The new Ligier LMP2 coupe will hit the race track this week
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| By Marcus Simmons | Wednesday, March 5th 2014, 13:32 GMT |
Jos Verstappen says that the choice for his son to race in Formula 3 this season has been made to better prepare him for 2015
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, March 5th 2014, 15:04 GMT |
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier believes driveability and fuel management will be more significant than raw pace in the early stages of the 2014 Formula 1 season
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| By Peter Mills | Tuesday, March 4th 2014, 15:59 GMT |
Auto GP will introduce a Formula 1-inspired knockout format for qualifying in 2014
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| Tuesday, March 4th 2014, 14:44 GMT |
Kurt Busch will contest the 2014 Indianapolis 500 with Andretti Autosport, becoming the first NASCAR star in recent years to race in IndyCar.
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| By Sam Tremayne | Tuesday, March 4th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Audi has revealed its new RS 5 DTM challenger with which it will defend its 2013 drivers' and teams' championship crowns in 2014.
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, March 2nd 2014, 10:15 GMT |
Nico Rosberg says Mercedes is still worried about the reliability of its new Formula 1 car as pre-season testing draws to a close.
Mercedes has generally led the way in terms of mileage and laptime so far, but the W05 has suffered several niggling reliability issues along the way.
The team undertook what it described as a "precautionary" engine change before Saturday's test at the Sakhir circuit, which delayed Rosberg's final day of running, and then missed the first three hours on Sunday due to gearbox issues.
Rosberg went on to clock more than 100 laps and set the second fastest time of the test on Saturday, but the three-time grand prix winner feels Mercedes still has some bugs to iron out before the first race in Melbourne.
"We've had some good tests but reliability is still a concern for us as it is for everybody else," said Rosberg. "It's tough to get the car 100 per cent ready.
"We might be in a better position than some other teams but we need to get to the end of the race so that's a big challenge."
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The German was satisfied with his last day of testing overall, despite some weather issues and his loss of track time.
"Conditions were tough out there with a sandstorm and really strong winds, which made it difficult to learn a lot, but it was still a good day," said Rosberg.
| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, March 2nd 2014, 15:05 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton returned Mercedes to the top of the times while Red Bull's struggles continued during the final pre-season Formula 1 test of 2014 in Bahrain.
The 2008 world champion made a late start, after losing most of the morning to a gearbox issue on the W05, but worked his way to the top of the times as the afternoon progressed.
He fell just 0.02 seconds short of beating Felipe Massa's Sakhir circuit pre-season benchmark from Saturday's test and bumped Massa's Williams team-mate Valtteri Bottas from the top spot, after the Finn had led the way for most of the day before stopping on the start-finish straight with a mechanical issue.
Sebastian Vettel endured another frustrating day in Red Bull's RB10, suffering what the team described as "a mechanical issue at the front of the car", which pitched the world champion off at Turn 1 before lunch.
The German returned to the track in the afternoon, and racked up a total of 77 laps, but at reduced pace.
He wound up ninth fastest thanks to late improvements under the floodlights, but still over four seconds off Hamilton.
Bahrain F1 testing gallery
Fernando Alonso set Ferrari's fastest time of pre-season around the Sakhir circuit to go third fastest, after the F14 T caused one of eight red flags across the day when Alonso stopped at Turn 12.
Romain Grosjean's Lotus, Jenson Button's McLaren, and Nico Hulkenberg's Force India all suffered engine failures that curtailed their running early, while clutch issues forced Kamui Kobayashi's Caterham to stop prematurely too.
Jean-Eric Vergne enjoyed arguably Toro Rosso's most successful day of pre-season, clocking 74 laps and the fifth fastest time.
Adrian Sutil and Esteban Gutierrez split driving duties in the Sauber and racked up more laps between them (177) than anyone else.
Electrical dramas delayed Max Chilton, but the Brit made a late surge to seventh on the timesheet, splitting the Sauber drivers with Marussia's fastest lap of pre-season around this track.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap Laps 1. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1m33.278s 69 2. Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 1m33.987s +0.709s 108 3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m34.280s +1.002s 74 4. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m35.577s +2.299s 74 5. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 1m35.701s +2.423s 74 6. Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 1m36.467s +3.189s 91 7. Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari 1m36.835s +3.557s 61 8. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 1m37.303s +4.025s 86 9. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m37.468s +4.190s 77 10. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m38.111s +4.833s 22 11. Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 1m38.391s +5.113s 106 12. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m39.302s +6.024s 32
| By Glenn Freeman and Matt Beer | Sunday, March 2nd 2014, 15:34 GMT |
Lotus believes it will need luck on its side just to finish the Australian Grand Prix after its troubled build-up to the 2014 Formula 1 season.
The team had to miss the first test at Jerez completely, and has only managed 1288 kilometres of running across the Bahrain fortnight, amid the litany of technical problems afflicting all Renault teams.
Asked what Lotus's chances of finishing the Australian GP were, technical director Nick Chester replied: "I think we've got to have a few things align.
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes end winter on top
"We've had days when the power unit has been fine and something else has let us down.
"I think we're going to need a bit of luck and all the bits to line up right for us.
"I know Renault Sport are working very hard on fixes and I'm sure they'll be bringing fixes and new specs to Melbourne that hopefully will give us a much better chance."
Chester admitted that not all the problems were Renault's responsibility.
Bahrain F1 testing gallery
"Most of the issues that have stopped us this week have been on the power unit side but we have had a couple of issues on our side," he said.
"We had some exhaust failures earlier in the week. We think we understand them now. We've got a different spec of exhaust coming for Melbourne and we think we know why they were cracking. It was one of our parts, we still make the whole system."
Romain Grosjean could only complete 65 laps across his two days of Bahrain running this week.
"We did as much as we could from the little amount of running that we had," said Grosjean.
While he admitted that the sole reason he thought he might finish in Melbourne was "optimism", the Frenchman insisted Lotus had managed to make some progress.
"Every time we stopped we tried to improve and there are things that went in the right direction, which is nice.
"I think it's even more complicated than everyone thought with this power unit and there is a lot of work on our side and the Renault side.
"It's far from being ideal or good. We tried to get every opportunity on track to improve what we could and understand the brake-by-wire, this new power unit and the management of the charge.
"There are two weeks before Australia and hopefully there's some brightness in the future."
| Saturday, March 1st 2014, 12:05 GMT |
British rider Leon Camier is set to lose his planned Ioda MotoGP seat before the season even starts.
The 27-year-old was listed on a second Aprilia for Ioda in January.
But amid rumours of financial problems, the team did not make it to either of the first two pre-season tests in Malaysia.
An updated entry list was released on Friday featuring only a single Ioda entry for team regular Danilo Petrucci.
The team subsequently issued a statement confirming that it would start the season with just Petrucci.
Ioda boss Giampiero Sacchi said the intention was still to add a second bike for Camier at a later stage if possible.
"Our priority is to start working with Aprilia for the development of the bike according to the steps that we have set," he said.
"We are still working to be able to line up a second MotoGP [entry] during the season."
Camier won the 2009 British Superbike title before graduating to the world championship, most recently racing for Suzuki.
The original 2014 MotoGP entry list featured Niccolo Canepa as Ioda's second rider, but its release was followed by statements from both Canepa and the team denying a deal had been done, with Camier then replacing him in the provisional line-up.
The team is switching to Open class Aprilia machinery this year after racing the Suter-BMW package in 2013.
| By Glenn Freeman | Saturday, March 1st 2014, 14:37 GMT |
Felipe Massa set the fastest time of Formula 1 pre-season testing in Bahrain so far on Saturday, as Sebastian Vettel failed to complete a lap for Red Bull.
Williams focused on performance work for Massa's final day in the car before the Australian Grand Prix weekend, and late in the afternoon the Brazilian set the quickest time over the two tests at Sakhir this pre-season.
Nico Rosberg - who completed 103 laps despite losing most of the morning due to an engine change - briefly stole top spot from Massa with around 15 minutes to go, but the Williams went back out and beat his time by 0.2 seconds.
At the other end of the timing screens sat world champion Vettel, who took over from Daniel Ricciardo following Red Bull's best day of pre-season so far.
However, there was no continuation of that momentum for Vettel, who stopped halfway round his out-lap after waiting nearly three hours to head out of the garage for the first time.
The RB10 was sent out again before lunch, but this time it only made it to the end of the pitlane before Vettel stopped and had to push the car back.
After that the Red Bull mechanics closed the garage doors, and the car did not reappear.
Sauber and Lotus were the other teams in trouble. The Swiss team managed one lap before Adrian Sutil pulled to a stop at the pit entry with smoke coming out of the C33, requiring an engine change that could not be completed in time for him to run again.
Romain Grosjean was back in the Lotus for the first time at this final test, and after electrical problems prevented him from running in the morning, his day ended after just 33 laps with an MGU-K problem that was too big to fix before the end of the running.
Bahrain F1 test in pictures
In terms of race simulations, Force India followed its programme from the past two days with Sergio Perez, giving Nico Hulkenberg set-up work to do in the morning before a race run in the afternoon.
Ferrari had a quiet morning on Kimi Raikkonen's final day in the car, and it finally managed to carry out some race simulation work with the Finn in the final two hours of the day.
That left just enough time for some short runs just before the end, which enabled the 2007 world champion to set the third-fastest time.
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Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap Laps 1. Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 1m33.258s 99 2. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m33.484s +0.226s 103 3. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1m35.426s +2.168s 87 4. Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 1m35.894s +2.636s 88 5. Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 1m36.113s +2.855s 81 6. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m36.205s +2.947s 115 7. Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari 1m37.087s +3.829s 78 8. Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 1m38.083s +4.825s 117 9. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m42.166s +8.908s 33 10. Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 1 11. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 0
| By Edd Straw and Matt Beer | Saturday, March 1st 2014, 15:34 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel says he will not let himself get 'emotional' about Red Bull's plight in 2014 pre-season Formula 1 testing.
The world champion missed out on another day of running in Bahrain on Saturday when electrical and battery issues with the RB10 meant he first stopped on an installation lap, then failed to get out of the pitlane when Red Bull made a second attempt to begin its programme.
Vettel's problems came after Red Bull managed an encouraging 66 laps with his new team-mate Daniel Ricciardo on Friday.
Bahrain test day three report
"We thought we would be in a much better place this week compared to last week. That hasn't really been the case," said Vettel.
"There's no point being too emotional at this stage. We really have to take it step by step.
"We know how serious it is, especially inside the team - on Renault's side and our side. We've been a team the last five years and things have been fantastic.
"There were difficult days and difficult times - when we had the engine blow up with two races to go [in 2010], nearly deciding the championship, which wasn't great. There were other faults on our side, and on the driver's side. We are a team. These things happen.
"There's no reason to paint everything black. We know that it's a difficult time but everyone is aware of that and motivated to get out of it, get going and find out where we are."
F1 testing in pictures
Red Bull's problems have been exacerbated by the second and third tests taking place back to back so far from the team's European base, reckons Vettel, giving it little chance to recover from earlier faults.
"I think some things will calm down just by the fact that in two weeks' time we'll have lots of new parts," he said.
"Obviously we've had quite a lot of problems and therefore damaged quite a lot of parts which are not available overnight, and also we are in Bahrain so it's not that easy to fix things. That will get better once we get to Australia."
He also believes the RB10 has decent potential when it is able to run cleanly. "With the very, very few laps we did, the car felt good," said Vettel.
"I was very happy with the car. "Obviously it's a step back from last year in terms of overall grip, but it wasn't too bad.
"There's hope on that front."
