First day of testing at Bahrain with 3 teams present and 5 drivers setting lap times.
Luca Badoer driving the Ferrari F2004 V10 set the fastest time of the day ahead of Honda test driver Anthony Davidson and fellow test driver James Rossiter.
Badoer's fastest time was a 1:32.297
while Davidson's fastest time was a 1:32.571 in a 2006 specification car.
Anthony Davidson covered the most number of laps with 114.
For reference, the best time in 2005 was a 1:29.527 by Mark Webber in the Williams FW27 during Saturday practice.
Weather conditions were partly cloudy with air temperature reaching 27 degrees and track temperatures reaching 33 degrees.