Rio Haryanto has made his debut for Manor during the first pre-season test in Barcelona.

The Indonesian driver was announced as one of the team's race drivers last week, forming an all-new driver line-up with fellow F1 rookie Pascal Wehrlein. While it was the German who drove on the opening day of testing, Haryanto had been due to appear on Tuesday before a late change of plans saw Manor keep Wehrlein in the car.

Haryanto has now made his debut in the new MRT05, emerging from the garage at 10:20 in Barcelona. Wednesday marks the first time Haryanto has driven an F1 car with a V6 power unit, having most recently tested for Marussia in 2012.

Wehrlein finished day two with the eighth fastest time, with his lap of 1:25.925 coming in a full five seconds faster than the team's qualifying best from the 2015 Spanish Grand Prix.

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Andrew Lewin

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.

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