Thursday: The final day's testing dawns bright and cold, and Ferrari's Felipe Massa takes over from Fernando Alonso - but it is not long before he suffers an oil leak and fire
Thursday: Ferrari say the problem will require a lengthy repair - and Massa's face tells its own story about his feelings as he contemplates a blow to his pre-season preparation
Thursday: Jenson Button has not driven an F1 car since the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final race of 2010. He gets his first taste of the new Pirelli tyres in Valencia before heading to Berlin for Friday's launch of McLaren's 2011 car
Thursday: Toro Rosso's new car has been somewhat ignored, buried under the debuts of much bigger teams. But Sebastien Buemi continues as team-mate to Jaime Alguersuari in 2011 and they quietly go about their preparations
Thursday: The Mercedes has drawn admiring glances for its looks and its eye-catching sharp nose but it has not matched Red Bull and Ferrari's pace and has been hit by reliability problems. Michael Schumacher is back in the MGP02 for the final day
Thursday: the combination of low sun and winter skies gives the F1 photographers a chance to stretch their lenses a bit, as seen in his lovely shot of Mark Webber in his Red Bull
Thursday: The Australian has a relatively low-key day but still sets second-fastest 2011 car time as well as completing an impressive-looking 20-lap run in the early afternoon. Red Bull look strong
Thursday: But the man making the headlines on the final day of the test is Robert Kubica in the Renault. The Pole sets fastest time - can the team achieve their ambition of "a couple of wins" in 2011?
Wednesday: Day two of the first pre-season Formula 1 test dawns bright and cold, and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso buttons up as he walks to the garage to begin his day's work
Wednesday: After a flood of new cars on Tuesday, another one breaks cover the following morning. Heikki Kovalainen puts the first miles on the new Lotus. As promised, it looks much more of a contemporary car than its predecessor
Wednesday: Lewis Hamilton turns up for his first day of F1 running of 2011, and his first word over the radio to his team as he sets out on to the track is: "Wow." Hamilton is in the 2010 McLaren. The 2011 is launched car on Friday
Wednesday: Robert Kubica gets his first miles in the new Renault, which is drawing admiring glances both for its looks and its innovative front-exiting exhaust system
Wednesday: Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel starts his second day as he finished the first - fastest. He sets a lap of one minute 13.614 seconds lap to establish Red Bull even at this stage as the team to beat
Wednesday: Hang on, though. After spending the morning doing aerodynamic testing, Alonso lets some laps rip in the new Ferrari and he beats Vettel's time by more than 0.3secs, raising hopes of a competitive season
Tuesday: Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Valencia, and the first day of testing for the 2011 Formula 1 season. World champion Sebastian Vettel is joined by team-mate Mark Webber as Red Bull unveil their new RB7 car
Tuesday: Vettel and Webber, who finished third in the 2010 standings, take a seat on their vehicle. The pair will also be racing with new tyres this season after Pirelli replaced Bridgestone as the sole supplier to F1
Tuesday: It's all smiles for Vettel as he poses in front of the number one logo that will adorn his car this season. The 23-year-old German goes into the 2011 campaign as the sport's youngest ever world champion
Tuesday: Another team taking the wraps off their latest machine is Mercedes. Drivers Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg join team principal for a photo shoot with the the MGP W02
Tuesday: Rosberg heads on to the track to get some kilometres under his belt. This is only the second Silver Arrows car to be launched by Mercedes since they left the sport in 1955
Tuesday: Seven-time world champion Schumacher, who endured a hugely disappointing comeback season in 2010, will get his first official taste of the MGP W02 when he takes over from Rosberg for the afternoon session
Tuesday: A third launch of the day sees Toro Rosso unveil their STR 6, Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastien Buemi the drivers
Tuesday: Spain's two-time world champion Fernando Alonso narrowly missed out on the drivers' title last season but the Ferrari man is back for more and, it would appear, as popular as ever with the fans
Tuesday: Alonso exits the Ferrari garage in his new F150. The Spaniard completes a lengthy morning run, posting a fastest lap time of one minutes 14.718 seconds. He improves that to 1:14.553 in the afternoon session
Tuesday: But the fastest man on the track is Vettel with lap of 1:13.769, more than 0.5sec ahead of day one backmarker Rosberg. Testing times may count for nothing but, all the same, impressive stuff from the defending champion
Tuesday: Ferrari's Felipe Massa watches the action unfold from trackside. The Brazilian is not scheduled to drive on Tuesday or Wednesday but will take over from Alonso on Thursday - the final day of testing in Valencia
Tuesday: Yet to launch their 2011 car, McLaren begin testing in last season's vehicle. Lewis Hamilton takes the seat on Wednesday and Jenson Button on Thursday, so first up it's the turn of reserve driver Gary Paffett
Tuesday: Vitaly Petrov gives the new-look Renault one of its first airings, with the new exhaust set-up, on the sidepods either side of the driver, a major talking point.
Tuesday: Rubens Barrichello will hope the 2011 Williams can give him a chance of claiming the team's first race win since 2004
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