Bottas quickest Sunday morning in Barcelona

Valtteri Bottas

Williams' Valtteri Bottas led this morning's Formula 1 pre-season testing session at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. The Finn ran qualifying simulations on the Pirelli super-soft tires and managed to record a time four-tenths better than Sebastian Vettel of Scuderia Ferrari, and nearly a full second ahead of Sauber's Felipe Nasr.

It was another miserable session for McLaren Honda. In addition to lead driver Fernando Alonso's accident last weekend, the Woking team has been plagued by reliability issues during much of pre-season testing. Today, Jenson Button managed only two laps.

Full times below…

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Behind	Laps
1	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m 23.063s	0.000s	45
2	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m 23.469s	0.406s	52
3	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m 24.023s	0.960s	72
4	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m 25.113s	2.050s	54
5	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m 25.186s	2.123s	69
6	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m 26.267s	3.204s	49
7	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m 26.587s	3.524s	10
8	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m 28.272s	5.209s	35
9	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	–	–	2

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