Mick Schumacher finishes second in extra time (Alonso, 4th)

As happened on Friday, Haas was able to look for improvement after the afternoon session of the Formula 1 collective tests in Bahrain.

The American team was forced to skip Thursday’s morning session because the containers containing most of their material arrived late, so their activity on the first day was limited to giving Pietro Fittipaldi the final hours.

After that, the team manager, Gunther Steiner , asked the other teams for permission to make up for lost time. Haas’s request was to shoot four hours on Sunday morning, but McLaren objected. However, they were allowed to continue working after the checkered flag of the last two afternoons.

The day before it was Kevin Magnussen’s turn to keep spinning, and the Dane had turned the standings upside down, lapping 1:33.207s on C4 (soft) tires to finish first on his return after a year away from F1.

This Saturday, on the other hand, it was Mick Schumacher’s turn, and the son of the seven-time world champion did not miss the opportunity to enjoy a track in better conditions than the ones on which the preseason had ended for the rest of the drivers.

When the checkered flag fell for the others (in fact, the red flag was mistakenly seen on the screens) the German from Haas had not finished badly, since he was eighth with a 1:33.151 that he had achieved with C3 compound tires ( media). In the two hours available to him afterwards, however, he added 28 laps to the 57 he had previously done and also managed to climb several places in the standings.

With the C4 tires on his VF-22, in fact, he managed to get down to 1m32.241s by the time the first of those two extra hours was up. A performance that earned him the second best time of the day, although approximately half a second from the 1:31.720 that, with supersoft C5 tires, gave the lead to the Red Bull of world champion Max Verstappen.

Now yes, with the end of the Mick Schumacher and Haas test, the preseason ends. Next up will be the Bahrain GP next weekend, ‘real fire’.

F1 2022 Bahrain Test Day 3 Final Times – Saturday 12th March

	Pilot	Equipment	laps	Time (tyres)
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	53	1’31″720
2	Mick Schumacher	Haas	85	1’32″241
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	51	1’32″415
4	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	122	1’32″698
5	George Russell	Mercedes	71	1’32″759
6	Valtteri Bottas	Alfa Romeo	68	1’32″985
7	Yuki Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	57 57	1’33 “002
8	Sergio Perez	Red Bull	43	1’33″105
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	90	1’33″191
10	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	81	1’33″821
11	Guanyu Zhou	Alfa Romeo	82	1’33″959
12	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	91	1’34 “865
13	Carlos Sainz	ferrari	68	1’34″905
14	Alex Albon	williams	18	1’35″171
15	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	124	1’35″634
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	53	1’36″029
17	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	78	1’36″217
18	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	38	1’38 “616