The team finished bottom of the mileage table for the week, with Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin running only 160 laps between them.
The team also announced on Thursday evening it would complete the final day of the test without Uralkali sponsorship or colours, which resembled the Russian flag, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – with the team set to review the future of its Uralkali title sponsorship deal next week.
The VF-22 suffered a string of problems on the first and third days of the test that kept it in the garage, including an oil leak that was the result of a Ferrari issue and was outside the team’s hands.
However, a solid second day on Thursday gave Steiner some cause for optimism.
“We didn’t do enough running,” he told Autosport. “The first day we had a few gremlins, very small issues with big consequences, well perhaps not big but medium consequences, so we didn’t do enough.
“Part of it was the floor. But in the morning we had a fuel pump issue, internal…
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