Barcelona Day 3: Massa uses Mercedes power to lead morning times

Felipe Massa set the pace for Williams in F1 testing Saturday morning in Barcelona, edging out Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen by 0.014s on super-soft Pirellis.

Using super-softs his lap of 1m23.262s on a three-lap run, was half-a-second slower than Nico Rosberg's Friday Mercedes time, which was set on the softs, meaning the Mercedes is easily 2 seconds per lap faster than everyone else.

They say a monkey can win with the Mercedes car, it's that good. It's going to be a very long year for anyone not driving a Mercedes in 2015.

Saturday AM Times

1. Felipe Massa Brazil Williams-Mercedes 43 laps 1m 23.262s
2. Kimi Raikkonen Finland Ferrari-Ferrari 49 laps 1m 23.276s
3. Marcus Ericsson Sweden Sauber-Ferrari 50 laps 1m 24.477s
4. Nico Hulkenberg Jr Germany Force India-Mercedes 74 laps 1m 24.939s
5. Kevin Magnussen Denmark McLaren-Honda 38 laps 1m 25.225s
6. Lewis Hamilton Britain Mercedes-Mercedes 36 laps 1m 25.471s
7. Daniel Ricciardo Australia Red Bull-Renault 58 laps 1m 25.879s
8. Carlos Sainz Jr Spain Toro Rosso-Renault 50 laps 1m 26.330s
9. Romain Grosjean France Lotus-Mercedes 44 laps 1m 27.950s