BARCELONA, Spain (AP) " Mercedes and Ferrari set the pace in the first week of preseason testing in Formula One. Kimi Raikkonen was fastest with Ferrari on Thursday as the teams completed a four-day session outside Barcelona, while Valtteri Bottas ended with the quickest time of the week with Mercedes. After testing wet tires on an artificially soaked track, drivers were able to switch to slicks and Raikkonen topped the timesheets with a lap of 1 minute, 20.872 seconds, almost a second faster than Max Verstappen of Red Bull. He was only eighth fastest on Thursday after Mercedes had to deal with a mechanical failure in the morning session. The watering trucks soaked the track again after the morning session to give drivers more time on the wet-weather tires.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 02, 2017 12:56 UTC