So ahead of the second and final week of pre-season testing, we have one unsurprising, nailed-on super-fast Mercedes.

Then we have an enigmatic Red Bull that looks far better on track than the lap times reflect, a Ferrari that has done no properly fast running at all and thus remains a mystery – and the suggestion of a sensation from Racing Point’s ‘pink Mercedes’.

The Mercedes W11 hit the track hot last week, Lewis Hamilton’s first day time on hard tyres suggesting he was one second clear of the field. Subsequent progress by Red Bull narrowed that to an apparent 0.7sec by the end of the final day.

Valtteri Bottas set the fastest time of last week, at 1 min 15.7sec, this comparing to his Spanish Grand Prix pole time of 1 min 15.4sec. History suggests that a proper full-on, low-fuel qualifying mode run in week two tends to be over a second faster than the first week – so we’re probably looking at a potential Mercedes time somewhere in the 1 min 14’s this week.