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Follow the final pre-season test live from Barcelona

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Keep up to date with all the action from the opening day of the final pre-season test of 2015 from the Circuit de Catalunya with F1i.

The second of back-to-back tests at the track gets underway on Thursday morning, with running from 9am-1pm and 2pm-6pm local time. F1i will be at the circuit on each day to bring you live timing, commentary, interviews and analysis ahead of the start of the new season.

The second pre-season test saw Lotus fastest on three out of four days but using the supersoft tyre, with Mercedes' Nico Rosberg setting the second best time on mediums to hint at the pace of the W06.

Fernando Alonso will miss the final test for McLaren following his crash on Sunday which saw him hospitalised for three nights, with Jenson Button driving on the opening day and Kevin Magnussen scheduled to take part at some stage.

Force India is due to launch its new car at the final test, with the VJM08 scheduled to arrive on Friday morning in Barcelona. The team hopes it will be able to complete some mileage on Friday afternoon before two full days over the weekend.

Click here for live coverage of testing from Barcelona

Driver line-ups for the final test

Click here for the gallery from day four of the second test

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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.