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Live: Day 1 of in-season testing from Barcelona

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F1i brings you live coverage of the first of two days of in-season testing from the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona.

Mercedes has Spanish Grand Prix winner Nico Rosberg driving on Tuesday as the team looks to build on the impressive progress it made this weekend, comfortably beating Ferrari on Sunday. With Ferrari keen to understand if it got the most out of its new updates, Raffaele Marciello drives the SF15-T on the opening day.

The other race drivers involved on day one are Daniil Kvyat at Red Bull, Felipe Massa at Williams, Pastor Maldonado in the Lotus and Marcus Ericsson at Sauber.

Pierre Gasly makes his test debut for Toro Rosso, while Force India has been forced in to a driver change, with Nick Yelloly now driving on Tuesday instead of Pascal Wehrlein. The young Mercedes driver unwell. Wherlein is expected to be fit enough to drive for Mercedes on Wednesday, but Force India will need to revise its plans for day two.

Nine of the ten teams have remained at the circuit following Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix, with only Manor not testing this week.

For live coverage of the opening day of testing, click here

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Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.