A power cut halted Formula One's pre-season testing in Bahrain on Wednesday with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc top of the afternoon timesheets after Mercedes rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli set the morning pace.

Kiwi Formula One Liam Lawson driver has had a full day of testing in his new Red Bull car covering the third most laps in Bahrain this morning without incident after a dramatic spin on day one. Teammate and defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen took the day off as Lawson got around the track 91 times to post the seventh-best time of the day.

Carlos Sainz showed Williams have found some speed over the winter by going fastest in the second day of pre-season testing in Bahrain.

Carlos Sainz completed a double race distance for previously struggling Williams and pushed Lewis Hamilton, the man who took his Ferrari seat, off the top of the testing timesheets in Bahrain on Thursday.

Williams driver Carlos Sainz set the pace on the second day of preseason testing, beating the two Ferrari drivers to the fastest lap time by less than 0.1 seconds.

Carlos Sainz set the pace on the second day of Formula 1 testing at the Sakhir circuit, clocking a 1’29”348 to lead the timesheets.

Carlos Sainz put in a double shift at pre-season Formula 1 testing on Thursday, the Spaniard topping the times after covering twice the usual Bahrain grand prix race distance of 57 laps at the wheel of his new Williams.