Barcelona day three - Maldonado takes P1 for Williams

Pastor Maldonado planted Williams on the top of the Thursday timesheets as this week's test continued at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya. Maldonado posted a quickest lap of 1m 22.391s, outstripping the second-placed Mercedes of Michael Schumacher by almost a second. Long runs and set-up work dominated Maldonado's day and he completed 106 laps. Â"It has been a very pleasing day with Pastor successfully completing his whole run plan,Â" said Williams' chief operations engineer, Mark Gillan. Â"We started with some aerodynamic correlation runs, followed by race weekend preparation and set-up optimisation. In the background, we also ran some bodywork cooling sweeps.Â"