Kamui Kobayashi was the man to beat today as the first Barcelona test drew to a close today. The Sauber driver completed a staggering 145 laps with a fastest time of 1m 22.312s two trnths faster then Paster Maldonando who completed a good test for the Williams Renault team.

Today's test passed off without any major issues for any of the team's however Caterham suffered an electrical problem with the CT01 which required the team to change the engine. This ruled Heikki Kovalainen out of track action for a brief time however the Finn managed to complete 70 laps finsihing at the bottom of the timesheets in 9th place.

The Marussia team wre unable to take part in testing today after a suspension failure on their car.The Final Pre-season test gets underway next Thursday where the Lotus team will return to the track with Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean behind the wheel after missing the entire week of testing this week due to a chassis problem.