Formula 1: 18 year old Antonelli the fastest – Hamilton fifth

The only 18 -year -old Andrea Kimi Antonelli, successor to record world champion Lewis Hamilton near Mercedes, set up the best time on the morning of the Formula 1 test drives. In the new silver arrow, the Italian was allowed to go to the Grand Prix course in the Sakhir desert and referred the New Zealand Red Bull Pilot Liam Lawson to second place.

The new team -mate of defending champion Max Verstappen had problems here and there to hold the new model of the Austrian racing team on the wayside. His time behind Antonelli was 0.132 seconds.

While the Italian, who came on a remarkable 78 laps on Wednesday morning, will run his first Grand Prix in the motorsport king class at the start of the season on March 16 in Melbourne, the 23-year-old Lawson completed at least a few races in Red Bull second team Racing Bulls. However, he also belongs to a total of six drivers who go into the season for the first time this year.

70 laps in the new Ferrari for the superstar

Record champion Hamilton initially did not get fifth in the new Ferrari on the first of the three test days on the Bahrain International. The 40 -year -old Brit was slower over four tenths of a second than Antonelli, he did 70 laps.

Nico Hülkenberg, the only German regular pilot, was ninth of the ten drivers who drove on the route in the morning. Because of the different programs of the teams and drivers, the times are placements and times but also very limited. Verfappen four-time champion will sit at the wheel of the Red Bull in the afternoon.