2019 Bahrain In-Season Test, Day 2

George Russell tops the timesheets on the second and final day of the Bahrain in-season test

Date:   Wednesday, 3 April 2019

Driver:George Russell

Circuit:Bahrain International Circuit

Circuit Length:5.412 km

Laps Completed:         101

Distance Covered:       547 km

Best Lap Time:1:29.029

George Russell was driving the Mercedes-AMG F1 W10 EQ Power+ on the second day of the Bahrain in-season test, completing 101 laps and setting the fastest time of the day.

Today’s programme focused on aero data collection and set-up work

Mercedes-Benz Power Units completed a total of 1,607 km today

Rights-free imagery of the day is available for download on our media site

George Russell

Timings don’t mean a lot in testing; however, it’s always a special experience to be on top of the timesheets. We had a very productive day today, the team learned a lot of things to help them progress. Driving a different car than usual, I personally also learned a lot which I can take back to further improve my driving.

Andrew Shovlin

It’s been great to have George back in our car for the day and many thanks to Williams for allowing it. He did an excellent job today, the way he goes about testing and his consistency and feedback would make you think he has a couple of seasons of F1 under his belt, not just two races. The morning had been successful, we had a packed programme due to the rain yesterday but were getting through the items very well. Unfortunately, at lunch we spotted a small water leak that wasn’t a quick fix which delayed our afternoon programme quite considerably. Whilst we couldn’t complete all our test items, we’ve done the important bits and we leave here with more information and understanding of the car and tyres and we’ve managed to test some developments that we plan to roll out over the next few races.

Pos.     Driver  Team   Time    Laps

1          George Russell (63)     Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport           1:29.029          101

2          Sergio Perez (11)         Racing Point    1:29.095          61

3          Sebastian Vettel (5)    Ferrari1:29.319          103

4          Carlos Sainz (55)         McLaren          1:29.795          21

5          Daniil Kvyat (26)          Toro Rosso (Pirelli-Test)         1:29.911          111

6          Mick Schumacher (36)            Alfa Romeo     1:29.998          70

7          Alex Albon (23)           Toro Rosso      1:30.037          143

8          Lance Stroll (18)          Racing Point    1:30.049          35

9          Dan Ticktum (24)        Red Bull           1:30.856          135

10        Romain Grosjean (8)   Haas    1:30.903          87

11        Fernando Alonso (14)McLaren (Pirelli-Test)1:31.006          69

12        Pietro Fittipaldi (51)    Haas    1:31.209          48

13        Lando Norris (4)          McLaren          1:31.303          72

14        Jack Aitken (45)           Renault           1:31.500          103

15        Nicholas Latifi (40)      Williams          1:32.198          100

16        Carlos Sainz (55)         McLaren (Pirelli-Test)1:32.269          60