Maldonado stays top as day three comes to an end

Pastor Maldonado's time this morning was enough to keep the Williams driver at the top of the timesheets as day three of preseason testing concluded in Barcelona today. He was nearly a second ahead of Michael Schumacher. The top three from this morning stayed the same this afternoon with Michael Schumacher and Kamui Kobayashi second and third respectively. Meanwhile Mark Webber was sixth for RedBull despite stopping out on track in the afternoon.

The second week of preseason concludes in Barcelona tomorrow afternoon. Over the course of today 966 laps were completed of the Circuit Du Catalunya. So far in testing McLaren and RedBull have been very close to each other in terms of pace.

It will be interesting to see what happens when Lotus return to the track next week with the modifications that they have made to the new E20. Will the team be able to set similar pace they set at last week's test in Jerez?