Jerez marks beginning of season ’08
On a wet Jerez track, most teams began running; three of them – Ferrari, McLaren and Toyota – with their new cars.
Felipe Massa ran into some early trouble with a F2008, which had to be returned to the Spanish circuit's pit lane on the back of a truck.
Red Bull's 2008 car, the RB4, will emerge for the first time on Wednesday.
Williams' Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima were running in the first of a series of special winter liveries, to mark the start of many statistical landmarks for the British team, including its 500th grand prix in Turkey.
The team's 2008 car, the FW30, will run for the first time, without being officially 'launched', at Valencia on 22 January.
BMW-Sauber, meanwhile, is absent, having unveiled a heavily revised car for this season – notably sporting a bigger than usual front wing – in Munich.
The F1.08 was briefly demonstrated at the launch event by Nick Heidfeld, but the car will make its proper debut at Valencia on Tuesday.