Technology can be wonderful, but sometimes – like when your Mom finds your Twitter feed – it just creates new problems that were previously unthinkable. The latest case in point: On the first day of the second Formula One preseason test, the Marussia team saw its 2014 car complete only three laps around the track because some witless oaf in the team garage downloaded a "Trojan-type virus" onto its computer system. Whoops.

According to the team's principal John Booth, the infection "cost us the best part of the day", and contributed to the team getting only 29 laps of testing in across its four days at the Bahrain International Circuit.

He expressed concern about the team's readiness for the first race in Australia next month, saying "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried in the slightest."

A modern Formula One racer isn't so much a car as a computer with wheels. This is great, most of the time. Drivers and teams get an insane amount of data from the car in real time, with much of it transmitted thousands of miles back to team headquarters during the race for analysis.

To help out with that analysis before the start of the season, Formula One teams get only a handful of opportunities to tweak their cars, something that's exponentially more difficult this year because of a truckload of regulation changes to this year's car. There's an entirely new engine, aerodynamic changes, a new hybrid system, and much, much more – all of which must be extensively tested ahead of the start of the season.

Marussia will only see four more days of testing in Bahrain ahead of the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 16, and Booth says the team needs to "maximize what we have left". He did not say which pornographic website from whence the Trojan came – the only logical explanation, right? – but we imagine the team will practice safe browsing going forward.