Nikita Mazepin clocks 128 laps on his first day driving the F1 W10

Date:                           Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Driver:                         Nikita Mazepin

Circuit:                        Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya

Circuit Length:            4.655 km

Laps Completed:         128

Distance Covered:       596 km

Best Lap Time:             1:15.775

20-year-old Russian racer Nikita Mazepin completed his first day of testing at the wheel of the Mercedes-AMG F1 W10 EQ Power+, logging 128 laps in Barcelona.

Nikita Mazepin

Today was incredible. Being a part of this team, even just for this day was very special for me. It’s every young driver’s dream to drive a car like this and today mine came true, so I’m really happy. Importantly it was a successful day on track too, we gathered most of the data we set out to collect, we didn’t encounter any problems and from my side I felt I could deliver consistently throughout the day – which is important for the team. In the afternoon we were competitive on the performance runs and the car felt great. Everyone in the team is working so hard and you can feel that when you sit in this car.

Ron Meadows, Sporting Director

It’s been another successful day here in Barcelona and we managed to complete all of the programme we had planned. We spent the first three quarters of the day focused on aerodynamic and Power Unit development testing, before switching to one-lap performance runs, working through the different specifications of the tyre with Nikita. He did a really superb job today, just as we expected he would.