Leclerc goes fastest overall in final morning F1 testing 2025 – Day 3

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was the fastest man of the morning pre-season test, the final of the three-day event, ahead of Mercedes’ Andrea Kimi Antonelli and McLaren’s Lando Norris. 

Feature image credit: Scuderia Ferrari

The final morning session has been completed, with only the afternoon session left to go at the Bahrain International Circuit, at Bahrain. 

There were some problems in the session with the first at Aston Martin’s garage as Fernando Alonso was called in to deputise for an unwell Lance Stroll. 

Alonso was meant to drive in the afternoon and Stroll in the morning, but the two have swapped driving duties, Aston Martin has confirmed. 

In the second half of the morning session, a broken panel of glass caused a red flag, and another was waved reportedly because a quadbike was still out on track. 

When the final testing session gets underway at 14:55 local time (11:55am GMT), join us below for live updates!

Leclerc currently fastest in morning session of F1 testing 2025 – Day 3

Morning runners

McLaren – Lando Norris

Ferrari – Charles Leclerc

Red Bull – Max Verstappen

Mercedes – Andrea Kimi Antonelli

Aston Martin – Fernando Alonso

Alpine – Jack Doohan

Haas – Oliver Bearman

Racing Bulls – Isack Hadjar 

Williams – Alexander Albon

Sauber – Gabriel Bortoleto

Leclerc is currently the fastest man on the track, with a lap time of 1:30.811. He stood ahead of Antonelli and Norris, in second and third, as Verstappen and Doohan round out the top five in fourth and fifth, respectively. 

Albon was sixth ahead of Hadjar, Alonso and Bortoleto were seventh, eighth and ninth. This left Bearman to round out the 10 morning runners.

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Kamron Kent

Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.