BAHRAIN TEST – DAY ONEDriver: Daniel Ricciardo on track for Red Bull Car: RB10Laps: 91Best time: 1:38.326Circuit length: 5.412kmFastest Lap: N. Rosberg (1:35.897)After delivering a superb drive to fourth place in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix, Daniel Ricciardo was back behind the wheel of the Infiniti Red Bull Racing RB10 today as the first in-season test of the year got underway at the Bahrain International Circuit.Daniel put in 91 laps of the Sakhir circuit on his way to a best time of 1:38.326 and afterwards said he was pleased with the progress made today.“We missed a little bit of time this morning but we made up for it in the afternoon. I think I was in the car for a good few hours,” he said. “We didn’t get in any performance runs today but we did some good long runs in the afternoon with three set-up changes and we got some good feedback from that. I think during last weekend we struggled a bit in P1 and P3, the daytime sessions in the heat, but the car felt a lot better today in those conditions, particularly on those long runs. We’re still a little behind but we’re chipping away and I’m sure over the course of this test and in China we’ll get a little bit closer. For the moment, though, we’ll take every little bit we can get. We’re learning and we’re making progress.”Race Engineering Co-ordinator Andy Damerum added: “An excellent day today. We were a little delayed in getting out this morning but that was simply down to the amount of instrumentation involved. Once Daniel was out though we worked through a very packed schedule of items and over his 91 laps we managed to tick off almost all of those things. There are many little standard test things which we couldn’t get done in pre-season and which the nature of race weekends don’t allow for, so today has been very valuable in terms of working through those items. So, all in all, a busy first day and it will be more of the same tomorrow when once again Daniel will be at the wheel.”

1 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m35.697s 121 laps

2 Nico Hulkenberg Force India 1m36.064s 69 laps

3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m36.626s 68 laps

4 Kevin Magnussen McLaren 1m36.634s 102 laps

5 Valtteri Bottas Williams 1m37.305s 28 laps

6 Max Chilton Marussia 1m37.678s 60 laps

7 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull 1m38.326s 91 laps

8 Sergey Sirotkin Sauber 1m39.023s 76 laps

9 Robin Frijns Caterham 1m40.027s 62 laps

10 Pastor Maldonado Lotus 1m40.183s 16 laps

11 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso 1m40.452s 67 laps