Kimi Raikkonen and the new Ferrari F60 were back on track this morning in Barcelona for the Scuderia's final test before the new season gets underway in Australia later this month; they were joined for the first time this year by all the other F1 teams.

Formula 1 testing at Barcelona - the last for the Scuderia Ferrari, BMW and Toyota, the penultimate for all the other teams before the first race of the season at Melbourne – are a real premiere. For the first time this year all the ten teams, participating in the Formula 1 Championships, are on the track at the same time during this test session and this morning saw the debut of the new Scuderia Toro Rosso single-seater, powered by a Ferrari engine, as well as the brand-new Brawn GP which has risen out of the ashes of the Honda team.

For the team from Maranello, back on the race track testing once again just four days after completing the last F1 test in Jerez, Kimi Raikkonen was behind the F60's wheel when the action got underway this morning. The Finnish driver started the day working on the car's development, in particular looking for the best setup.

Raikkonen completed just 25 laps before the lunch break due to several pits stops because the Scuderia's mechanics had to carry out checks of the car's underbody. The lap times at that point weren't very expressive because the F60 was out for just one lap on the regular tyres. Raikkonen, with a best lap of 1.22.869, was only faster at that point than the slowest driver on the track and the Finnish 2007 F1 World Champion was almost two seconds slower than Jenson Button (1.21.140) with the new Brawn F1 car which is sporting the name of the Scuderia's former technical director.

By the end of the first of four days of official testing in Barcelona this afternoon Raikkonen had covered a total of 81 laps at the wheel of the F60 with the quickest of these being in a time of 1:20.908. Testing continues at this circuit tomorrow, again with Raikkonen on track for the Scuderia.

Test Details: 09/03/2009 - Circuit: Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona - 4.655 km; Driver: Kimi Raikkonen; Car: Ferrari F60; Weather: air temperature 10/17 °C, track temperature 11/24 °C. Overcast in the morning, then cloudy with a few sunny spells.