Title favourite Lando Norris was fastest for Formula One champions McLaren after a power cut disrupted the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain on Wednesday. The session was extended by an hour into the evening after the outage,

Lando Norris was fastest and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton 13th as Formula 1 teams had to deal with a power outage that disrupted preseason testing Wednesday.

Lewis Hamilton was fifth-fastest in his first session of preseason testing with Ferrari as his successor at Mercedes, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, posted the fastest time.

The first day of Formula One's pre-season testing in Bahrain was extended by an hour on Wednesday after a power cut plunged garages into darkness and halted the session. Sakhir circuit authorities said the outage,

Lewis Hamilton has started Formula 1 preseason testing for Ferrari in the next step in his bid to win an eighth F1 title

A power cut on the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain halted running for over an hour as teams used torches and mobile phones to operate in near darkness in mildly chaotic scenes.