Red Bull driver Daniel Ricciardo topped the timing sheets while Ferrari and McLaren – in the 2015 cars – racked up almost 300 laps on the opening day of Pirelli wet-tyre testing at Paul Ricard Circuit in southern France. Recycled water was used to wet the track, after which the cars were unleashed from 9:00am onwards. Each team doing 10 lap stints. Ricciardo, Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) and Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren) were on duty as they put the Pirelli prototype wet compounds to the test. The three teams combined to rack up 285 laps, with only one stoppage during the course of the day when Vandoorne's McLaren cam to a halt out on track. Ricciardo racked up 99 laps and in the...
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