Raikkonen fastest over all four days of final test

Kimi Raikkonen recorded the fastest time of any set in the four days at the final pre-season test session, at Barcelona.

Raikkonen fastest in the final pre-season test

Raikkonen's time came on Day four, the last day, with his 1.22.030 the fastest of the four days by just six hunderedths of a second from Sergio Perez, who topped Day Three. Jenson Button was the third of the big teams, his fastest time of his running was third. Fernando Alonso was sixth with Felipe Massa tenth for Ferrari. The Italian team do appear to be struggling to understand their very radical new car, with the car seeming inconsistent. At times it seems very fast and competitive, whereas the next minute Alonso and Massa are struggling to control it. Lewis Hamilton was eleventh fastest of all 20 drivers, while Mark Webber was thirteenth in the Red Bull RB8. His team mate Sebastian Vettel was actually the slowest man over all four days, or to be more precise, his fastest time was the slowest of anyone's fastest time. This shouldn't be a problem though, as Red Bull still look strong.

The full times from the Barcelona test:

Pos	Driver	Team	Time
1	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus	1.22.030
2	Sergio Perez	Sauber	1.22.094
3	Jenson Button	McLaren	1.22.103
4	Paul di Resta	Force India	1.22.146
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1.22.155
6	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1.22.250
7	Bruno Senna	Williams	1.22.296
8	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1.22.312
9	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1.22.386
10	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1.22.413
11	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1.22.430
12	Romain Grosjean	Lotus	1.22.614
13	Mark Webber	Red Bull	1.22.622
14	Heikki Kovalainen	Caterham	1.22.630
15	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	1.22.795
16	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1.22.932
17	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1.22.939
18	Jean-Eric Vergne	Toro Rosso	1.23.126
19	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1.23.347
20	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1.23.361

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