For the second season in a row, Carlos Sainz Jr. stands atop the Formula 1 pre-season testing timing sheets. A year ago Sainz posted the fastest time at Bahrain International Circuit, topping the board with a lap time of 1:29.

Recap updates and reaction from day two of Formula One’s sole preseason test in Sakhir ahead of the new season

Lewis Hamilton has been fastest in his new Ferrari on the morning of the second day of Formula 1 preseason testing in Bahrain.

Carlos Sainz completed a double race distance for previously struggling Williams and pushed his Ferrari successor Lewis Hamilton off the top of the testing timesheets in Bahrain on Thursday. Seven times champion Hamilton had been fastest in the morning session but Sainz,

Ferrari's Lewis Hamilton looked in good shape, with the seven-time world champion only 0.031sec off Sainz's pace. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Carlos Sainz excelled in Bahrain, completing a double race distance for Williams and outperforming Lewis Hamilton during testing. Despite rainy conditions, Sainz clocked the fastest lap time, indicating promising performance for the new season.

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.