Mercedes clocked their fastest times of the winter, while Alex Albon set the ultimate pace for Toro Rosso, as the final morning of F1 Testing's first week proved pre-season's most eventful so far. F1's five-time world champions had focused on heavier-fuel, long runs across the first three days but started to let the shackles off the W10 as Lewis Hamilton tried out some of Pirelli's faster tyres. Hamilton had various turns at the top of the timesheet before lunch, with his quickest lap of 1:17.977 coming on the C4 compound - the second-fastest available. But Mercedes were ultimately shuffled down to third place as Renault's Daniel Ricciardo, first on the same tyres as Hamilton and then the...
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