The Official Pre-Season Test in Bahrain concluded on Saturday night, as the teams finalised their preparations ahead of next week's season opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
Despite the heat, temperatures were much cooler than on Day 2 as Sergio Perez, sporting an updated Red Bull RB18, set the early pace in the morning session. Also impressing in the morning was Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu, who traded fastest laps with Perez for a part of the session but ultimately finished in P2.
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The afternoon session saw a whole new set of drivers get their final runs of testing. One of those drivers was defending champion Max Verstappen, who set a blistering benchmark to go quickest by 0.695s to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The third fastest time of the day was Fernando Alonso in the Alpine, who also completed a total of 122 laps on the third and final day.
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