Date Sunday March 2 2014
Driver Jenson Button
Location Bahrain International Circuit (5.412km)
Laps/km 22/119
Overall laps/km 271/1466
Best laptime 1m38.111s
Overall best laptime 1m35.894s (Kevin, Saturday)
A difficult final day for Jenson and the team.
The engineers were able to carry out some significant set-up work during the morning’s early laps. However, the team’s attempts to understand the behavior of its Melbourne-spec front wing – which arrived this morning – were curtailed by a late-morning red-flag.
After lunch, Jenson only managed a few laps before suffering a high-mileage internal combustion engine failure, which kept his car in the garage for much of the afternoon while the unit was replaced.
At the end of the day, any further attempts to run were hit by an as-yet undiagnosed control electronics problem – the result of which is that the team had no driver feedback upon which to evaluate the new front wing. The engineers will be able to evaluate its strengths using the limited run-data we accumulated during the day. Jenson was able to run a final lap under the Bahrain International Circuit’s spotlights – the session was extended by 30 minutes to allow the new system to be tested ahead of next month’s night race.
1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes AMG 1m33.278s 69 laps
2 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1m33.987s 108 laps
3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m34.280s 74 laps
4 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1m35.577s 74 laps
5 Jean-Eric Vergne Scuderia Toro Rosso 1m35.701s 74 laps
6 Adrian Sutil Sauber 1m36.467s 91 laps
7 Max Chilton Marussia 1m36.835s 61 laps
8 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber 1m37.303s 86 laps
9 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1m37.468s 77 laps
10 Jenson Button McLaren Mercedes 1m38.111s 22 laps
11 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham 1m38.391s 106 laps
12 Romain Grosjean Lotus 1m39.302s 32 laps
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