Williams rule on first day of second test

All ten teams returned to Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona on Tuesday for the second winter test.

Last week the first winter test session of the 2017 Formula One season saw four days of testing with teams completing a huge amount of laps around the 2.889 mile Circuit de Catalunya.

But on the first day of the second test those miles were simple blown out of the water by Felipe Massa in the Williams and Sebastian Vettel in the Ferrari who both completed 168 laps, 485.352 miles. A distance which would complete almost three Spanish Grand Prix.

Massa also set the fastest time of the day with a 1minute 19.726s, only 0.021s slower than the fastest time set by Valtteri Bottas for Mercedes on the third day of the first test.

But the pace setters from the first test Mercedes, did not enjoy a good day.

Lewis Hamilton damaged the floor of his Mercedes and was limited to only 49 laps.

Pascal Wehrlein for Sauber [47] and Jolyon Palmer for Renault [15], were the only drivers to complete fewer laps.

‘As a team, we are not massively happy with the time we had and the car didn’t feel great this morning,’ Hamilton said to Sky Sports.