Formula 1's pre-season testing come to its conclusion today in Bahrain, with the third and final day of running at Sakhir.

Teams and drivers will have one last opportunity to put their machines to the test before engineers take stock of the raw data and myriad of information that will hopefully help each outfit gain a conclusive understanding of their car ahead of next week's season opening race at Sakhir.

McLaren's week in Bahrain has been far from smooth, with the Woking-based outfit struggling to get on top of its braking issues. Unfortunately, Daniel Ricciardo will remain on the sidelines today, and even in isolation following the Aussie's positive Covid test.

Therefore, for the third day in succession, Lando Norris will be the papaya squad's sole representative on track, as will be Fernando Alonso for Alpine who will take over from Esteban Ocon.

All other teams will split their final day between their drivers, including Haas where Kevin Magnussen enjoyed a rather spectacular return to F1 on Friday, with the Dane setting a new benchmark time during his team's extra hour of track time.

As usual, the action will kick off at 10:00 local time (07:00 GMT - 08:00 CET), with the day's session breaking for lunch at 14:00 and then running from 15:00 until 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT - 17:00 CET).

Driver line-ups for Bahrain pre-season test 

Thursday
March 10
Friday
March 11
Saturday
March 12
Mercedes 
AM Lewis Hamilton
PM George Russell
AM George Russell
PM Lewis Hamilton
AM Lewis Hamilton
PM George Russell
Red Bull 
Sergio Perez Max Verstappen AM Sergio Perez
PM Max Verstappen
Ferrari
AM Charles Leclerc
PM Carlos Sainz
AM Charles Leclerc
PM Carlos Sainz
AM Carlos Sainz
PM Charles Leclerc
McLaren
Lando Norris Lando Norris Lando Norris
Alpine 
AM Esteban Ocon
PM Fernando Alonso
Esteban Ocon AM Esteban Ocon
PM Fernando Alonso
Scuderia AlphaTauri
Pierre Gasly Yuki Tsunoda AM Pierre Gasly
PM Yuki Tsunoda
Aston Martin F1
AM Sebastian Vettel
PM Lance Stroll
AM Sebastian Vettel
PM Lance Stroll
AM Lance Stroll
PM Sebastian Vettel
Williams
Alex Albon Nicholas Latifi AM Nicholas Latifi
PM Alex Albon
Alfa Romeo F1
AM Guanyu Zhou
PM Valtteri Bottas
AM Valtteri Bottas
PM Guanyu Zhou
AM Guanyu Zhou
PM Valtteri Bottas
Haas F1 Team
AM No running
PM Pietro Fittipaldi
AM Mick Schumacher
PM Kevin Magnussen
AM Kevin Magnussen
PM Mick Schumacher
Michael Delaney

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