2013 Pirelli Tyre Test

The 2013 Pirelli Tyre Test was a three-day test intended to test the tyres to be used in the 2014 Formula One Season. It took place between December 17–19, 2013 at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir.
The test, completed with -spec cars, was created at the meeting of the F1 Strategy Group and the Formula One Commission on 9 December 2013. It was to be carried out "on safety grounds", to ensure that Pirelli's 2014 tyres can contain the stresses of the 2013 cars and to ensure that any issues are ironed out before the teams start using the tyres on a serious basis.
Since it was a Pirelli test, only teams that were invited by Pirelli are allowed to take part. All eleven teams were invited, and , , , , and initially accepted, but McLaren and Force India later declined to participate. Mercedes (with Nico Rosberg) and Toro Rosso (with Jean-Éric Vergne and Daniil Kvyat) took their race drivers; while Red Bull (with Sébastien Buemi) and Ferrari (with Pedro de la Rosa and Jules BianchiBianchi was part of the Ferrari Driver Academy, despite driving in F1 for .) took test drivers.
Like other Pirelli tests, the results of the test are private, and were not be released to the media or to the general public. Despite this it became known that on the third day, Rosberg suffered a tyre blowout at 320 km/h (200 mph) and spun as a result. This only came to light as Rosberg tweeted about his incident, before deleting the tweet soon afterwards.
Pirelli later declared that the tyre that blew out was a prototype tyre that had only been tested in the laboratory and that it will not be used again. Mercedes, unable to repair the car in the remaining time, did not do any more laps after Rosberg's blowout.
==Driver Running Order==
Team	Car 	Day 1 (Tue) 	Day 2 (Wed) 	Day 3 (Thu)
 	RB9 	Sébastien Buemi 	Sébastien Buemi 	Sébastien Buemi
 	F1 W04	Nico Rosberg 	Nico Rosberg 	Nico Rosberg
 	F138 	Pedro de la Rosa	Pedro de la Rosa 	Jules Bianchi
 	STR8 	Jean-Éric Vergne	Jean-Éric Vergne Daniil Kvyat	Daniil Kvyat
==Notes==
==External links==
* Regulation changes that created the test
Category:Pre-season testing
Category:2014 Formula One Season