2014 Abu Dhabi Test

2014 Abu Dhabi Test
The Grand Prix Circuit of Yas Marina
Date	November 25–26, 2014
Circuit	Yas Marina Circuit
Fastest driver	Pascal Wehrlein (Mercedes) 1:42.624 (Day 2)

The 2014 Abu Dhabi Test is the fourth and final in-season testing event of 2014. Held two days after the culmination of the 2014 season, the testing will mainly be for testing 2015 car parts. The event will be held over two days, the 25th and 26th of November, and will consist of two sessions each day.

Raffaele Marciello, Jolyon Palmer (son of Jonathan Palmer), Spike Goddard, Pascal Wehrlein and Alex Lynn will all get their first taste of an F1 car, while Marcus Ericsson drives a Sauber for the first time.

McLaren will run a Honda engine in an interim chassis dubbed the MP4-29H/1X1. It failed to run in either morning session and only attempted five laps in total, completing three and stopping out on track on the other two.

Force India tested the info wing, which shows race data to the fans from on top of the airbox, on the second day.

Valtteri Bottas scored the fastest time on the first day, while Pascal Wehrlein set the test's fastest lap time on the second day.

Driver running order

Team	Car	Day 1 (Tue)	Day 2 (Wed)
Caterham-Renault	CT05	Will Stevens
Ferrari	F14 T	Kimi Räikkönen	Raffaele Marciello
Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	Jolyon Palmer	Spike Goddard
Lotus-Renault	E22	Charles Pic	Esteban Ocon / Alex Lynn
McLaren-Honda	MP4-29H/1X1	Stoffel Vandoorne
Mercedes	F1 W05 Hybrid	Nico Rosberg	Pascal Wehrlein
Red Bull-Renault	RB10	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	Daniel Ricciardo
Sauber-Ferrari	C33	Marcus Ericsson
Toro Rosso-Renault	STR9	Max Verstappen
Williams-Mercedes	FW36	Valtteri Bottas	Felipe Nasr

Overview

Report

Day 1

All eyes were on McLaren-Honda as they prepared for the beginning of a new partnership. While the car had been tested at a promotional event two weeks previously, this was to be the first time the car was to be driven properly. However, the car did not make an appearance in the morning session due to electrical issues and only managed three installation laps – the second of which he stopped out on track and caused a red flag.

Valtteri Bottas, in his Williams-Mercedes, topped the timesheets for most of the day, setting a new best time in the last fifteen minutes. Fellow Finn Kimi Räikkönen was about half a second down, while 2014 Championship runner-up Nico Rosberg was third fastest, driving the most laps on the day (114). Jolyon Palmer's best time was just 0.004 seconds slower than Rosberg, and only managed 37 laps due to an engine issue.

Carlos Sainz, Jr. and Will Stevens both managed to pass the 100-lap mark, while Marcus Ericsson, in his first drive in a Sauber, managed 95. Charles Pic, missing the Formula E Putrajaya ePrix race, was fractionally quicker than Ericsson.

Max Verstappen crashed on his third lap after a suspension failure, but eventually competed 55 laps to be ninth-fastest.

Times

Day 1, 25th November

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Car	Tyres	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:43.396		79
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:43.888	+ 0.492 s	81
3	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	F1 W05 Hybrid	P	1.44.512	+ 1.116 s	114
4	Jolyon Palmer	Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	P	1:44.516	+ 1.120 s	37
5	Carlos Sainz, Jr.	Red Bull-Renault	RB10	P	1:45.339	+ 1.943 s	100
6	Will Stevens	Caterham-Renault	CT05	P	1:45.436	+ 2.040 s	101
7	Charles Pic	Lotus-Renault	E22	P	1:46.167	+ 2.771 s	89
8	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	C33	P	1:46.253	+ 2.857 s	95
9	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault	STR9	P	1:47.197	+ 3.801 s	54
10	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Honda	MP4-29H/1X1	P	no time		3

Day 2, 26th November

Pos	Driver	Constructor	Car	Tyres	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Pascal Wehrlein	Mercedes	F1 W05 Hybrid	P	1:42.624		96
2	Raffaele Marciello	Ferrari	F14 T	P	1:43.208	+ 0.584 s	91
3	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso-Renault	STR9	P	1:43.763	+ 1.139 s	78
4	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	C33	P	1:44.551	+ 1.927 s	112
5	Will Stevens	Caterham-Renault	CT05	P	1:44.888	+ 2.264 s	76
6	Spike Goddard	Force India-Mercedes	VJM07	P	1:44.944	+ 2.320 s	89
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	RB10	P	1:45.151	+ 2.527 s	74
8	Felipe Nasr	Williams-Mercedes	FW36	P	1:45.937	+ 3.313 s	83
9	Alex Lynn	Lotus-Renault	E22	P	1:46.168	+ 3.544 s	52
10	Esteban Ocon	Lotus-Renault	E22	P	1:47.013	+ 4.389 s	34
11	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Honda	MP4-29H/1X1	P	no time		2

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