Stats and facts from the first Bahrain test

The second pre-season test of the 2014 Formula 1 season has come to a close on, with results varying for the 11 teams in attendance.

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Some gained plenty of mileage with their new machines, while others continued to struggle with reliability woes. Here are stats and facts from the first Bahrain test, including combined times and lap counts.

It was another hugely interesting and intriguing four-day event, like Jerez, but we still can't read too much into the times. Reliability was still the major focus and judging by that, Mercedes, Williams and McLaren certainly look to have the early advantage.

Ferrari gained plenty of running with its F14 T, although they have some work to do to repair the car for the third and final test (which takes place from the 27th February to the 2nd March) after Kimi Raikkonen found the wall at the end of day four.

Caterham's CT05 looks like the most reliable of the Renault runners, while rivals Marussia struggled to even emerge from the garage. Red Bull and Toro Rosso remain on the back foot and Lotus had a difficult first test with its E22.

Combined times from all four sessions, with the day the fastest lap was set in brackets:

1. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1m33.283 (Day 4) 
2. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1m34.263 (Day 3) 
3. Kevin Magnussen, McLaren, 1m34.910 (Day 2) 
4. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1m34.957 (Day 4) 
5. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1m36.445 (Day 2) 
6. Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, 1m36.516 (Day 2) 
7. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1m36.718 (Day 4) 
8. Felipe Massa, Williams, 1m37.066 (Day 3) 
9. Esteban Gutierrez, Sauber, 1m37.180 (Day 3) 
10. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1m37.328 (Day 2) 
11. Sergio Perez, Force India, 1m37.367 (Day 3) 
12. Felipe Nasr, Williams, 1m37.569 (Day 4) 
13. Pastor Maldonado, Lotus, 1m38.707 (Day 4) 
14. Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso, 1m38.974 (Day 3) 
15. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull Racing, 1m39.837 (Day 4) 
16. Kamui Kobayashi, Caterham, 1m39.855 (Day 2) 
17. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing, 1m40.224 (Day 2) 
18. Adrian Sutil, Sauber, 1m40.443 (Day 1) 
19. Jean-Eric Vergne, Toro Rosso, 1m40.472 (Day 4) 
20. Romain Grosjean, Lotus, 1m41.670 (Day 2) 
21. Marcus Ericsson, Caterham, 1m42.130 (Day 3) 
22. Max Chilton, Marussia, 1m42.511 (Day 2) 
23. Robin Frijns, Caterham, 1m42.534 (Day 1) 
24. Jules Bianchi, Marussia, no time 

Here are the lap counts from the second test, with each driver's overall test total so far in brackets:

1. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 174 laps (362) 
2. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 171 laps (213) 
3. Jenson Button, McLaren, 169 laps (252) 
4. Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, 160 laps (333) 
5. Esteban Gutierrez, Sauber, 151 laps (211) 
6. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 141 laps (262) 
7. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 137 laps (154) 
8. Kevin Magnussen, McLaren, 126 (288) 
9. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 125 laps (203) 
10. Marcus Ericsson, Caterham 98 laps (112) 
11. Pastor Maldonado, Lotus, 89 laps 
12. Adrian Sutil, Sauber, 88 laps (191) 
13. Felipe Nasr, Williams, 87 laps 
14. Kamui Kobayashi, Caterham, 82 laps (136) 
15. Jean-Eric Vergne, Toro Rosso, 77 laps (122) 
16. Sergio Perez, Force India, 76 laps (124) 
17. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull Racing, 72 laps (83) 
18. Robin Frijns, Caterham, 68 laps (78) 
19. Felipe Massa, Williams, 65 laps (198) 
20. Daniil Kvyat, Toro Rosso, 62 laps (71) 
21. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull Racing, 43 laps (53) 
22. Romain Grosjean, Lotus, 26 laps 
23. Max Chilton, Marussia, 21 laps (26) 
24. Jules Bianchi, Marussia, 8 laps (33) 

Total laps from Bahrain for the 11 teams, with each outfit's total from pre-season testing so far in brackets:

1. Williams, 323 laps (498) 
2. Mercedes, 315 laps (624) 
3. McLaren, 295 laps (540) 
4. Ferrari, 285 laps (536) 
5. Caterham, 248 laps (324) 
6. Force India, 213 laps (359) 
7. Sauber, 159 laps (322) 
8. Toro Rosso, 139 laps (193) 
9. Red Bull Racing, 115 laps (136) 
10. Lotus, 115 laps 
11. Marussia, 29 (59) 

Total laps from Bahrain for the three power-unit manufacturers, with overall tallies from winter testing in brackets, followed by the team's that they supply:

1. Mercedes, 1146 (1875) – Mercedes, McLaren, Force India & Williams 
2. Renault, 582 (768) – Red Bull Racing, Lotus, Toro Rosso & Caterham 
3. Ferrari, 473 (917) – Ferrari, Sauber, Marussia 

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Day four was the quietest of the test, with just 469 laps being completed. The busiest session was day three with a total of 695 laps. The 11 teams registered a combined tally of 482 laps on day one and 676 laps on day two.

Teams had 30 sets of Pirelli compound tyres each to use at the second test, with 22 compounds being selected by the Italian supplier (plus the prototype medium compound to test its behaviour without tyre warmers for 2015). The remaining eight sets were then chosen by the teams.

The approximate performance difference between the tyre compounds in Bahrain were as follows: the supersoft was 0.7 seconds faster than the soft, the soft was around 1.2 seconds quicker than the medium, which was around 1.3 seconds faster than the hard Pirelli tyre.

A total of 24 drivers took part in the first Bahrain test - 22 race drivers and two reserves. 2,322 laps were completed in total (12,566 kilometres) compared to 1,470 laps at the first test in Jerez. 341 sets of tyres were flown to Bahrain, with 199 being used. The medium tyre was the most popular slick compound, with the supersoft being used the least.

The warmer conditions in Bahrain helped teams gain more representative data with their new cars. The highest ambient temperature registered was 27 degrees, with the least being 17 degrees. The track temperatures was even hotter, with a top temperature of 37 degrees and the lowest being 18 degrees.

Second test reports: Day one, day two, day three and day four.