AlphaTauri and Alfa Romeo with most laps, Mercedes at the bottom

AlphaTauri and Alfa Romeo drove the most laps in pre-season testing in Bahrain while current world champions Mercedes drove the fewest laps of all teams for the first time in the hybrid era.

The teams only had three days of testing this season which is the least ever and that’s why every reliability problem carried more weight than usual because there was no time to make up for lost time.

Pierre Gasly drove the most laps of all drivers (237) behind the wheel of an AlphaTauri AT02 and Kimi Raikkonen drove only eight laps less in the Alfa Romeo C41.

Six drivers drove more than 200 laps on the Bahrain International Circuit track while Sebastian Vettel drove the fewest laps of all racing drivers for his new team Aston Martin (117).

NUMBER OF LAPS PER DRIVER

1	Gasly	AlphaTauri	237
2	Raikkonen	Alfa Romeo	229
3	Mazepin	Haas	213
4	Leclerc	Ferrari	212
5	Alonso	Alpine	206
6	Verstappen	Red Bull	203
7	Stroll	Aston Martin	197
8	Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	193
9	Sainz	Ferrari	192
10	Ocon	Alpine	190
11	Tsunoda	AlphaTauri	185
12	Schumacher	Haas	181
13	Ricciardo	McLaren	173
14	Perez	Red Bull	166
15	Russell	Williams	158
16	Hamilton	Mercedes	154
17	Norris	McLaren	154
18	Bottas	Mercedes	150
19	Latifi	Williams	132
20	Vettel	Aston Martin	117
21	Nissany	Williams	83

Alfa Romeo and AlphaTauri drove the most laps of all the teams (422), but Ferrari, Alpine and Haas were also very close to that figure with more than 93% of the number of laps of Alfa Romeo and AlphaTauri.

Williams drove the most laps of the four teams using Mercedes engines – 373 laps (or 88.4% of the number of laps driven by Alfa Romeo and AlphaTauri).

Although they are only seventh in the number of laps, Red Bull can be very satisfied because they did not have major problems and did the planned programs with both drivers as they completed a total of 369 laps, 87.4% of the number of laps Alfa Romeo and AlphaTauri.

McLaren had solid testing given that they were the only ones to change engine suppliers before this season and Ricciardo and Norris completed 327 laps in the new MCL35M with Mercedes engine.

Aston Martin and Mercedes have the least reason for satisfaction as they drove only 314 (Aston Martin) and 304 (Mercedes) laps. This is in stark contrast to the last few years in which we have used to see Mercedes at the top of the tables when it comes to the number of laps driven.

NUMBER OF LAPS PER TEAM

1	Alfa Romeo	422
2	AlphaTauri	422
3	Ferrari	404
4	Alpine	396
5	Haas	394
6	Williams	373
7	Red Bull	369
8	McLaren	327
9	Aston Martin	314
10	Mercedes	304

NUMBER OF LAPS PER POWER UNIT

Although Mercedes has four teams using their engines, they drove just 98 laps more than Ferrari and Honda drove 791 laps with Red Bull and AlphaTauri.

As expected, the least number of laps was driven by Renault, which supplies its power units only to its factory team, which they renamed Alpine before the 2021 F1 season.