Kimi Raikkonen fastest as testing concludes

Kimi Raikkonen has finished Formula One’s final pre-season test of 2012 with the fastest time.

The Lotus team had earlier topped the first and second days of the four-day Barcelona running with Romain Grosjean at the wheel.

Raikkonen set a morning benchmark of 1:22.03s, which would not be eclipsed once all teams began focussing on race runs in the afternoon.

Fernando Alonso was second fastest in the Ferrari, ahead of Bruno Senna, who handed the Williams over to team-mate Pastor Maldonado in the afternoon.

Sebastian Vettel ended the day at the foot of the time sheets, having completed just 23 laps in the updated Red Bull RB8 amid gearbox problems.

pos	driver	car	time	gap
1	Kimi Raikkonen	Lotus	1m22.030s
2	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1m22.250s	+0.220
3	Bruno Senna	Williams	1m22.296s	+0.266
4	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India	1m22.312s	+0.282
5	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1m22.386s	+0.356
6	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	1m22.430s	+0.400
7	Vitaly Petrov	Caterham	1m22.795s	+0.765
8	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1m22.939s	+0.909
9	Pastor Maldonado	Williams	1m23.347s	+1.317
10	Daniel Ricciardo	Toro Rosso	1m23.393s	+1.363
11	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	1m23.608s	+1.578