Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso topped the timesheets in Barcelona this morning, with Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen third fastest and Robert Kubica fourth for BMW Sauber.

BMW Sauber team boss Mario Theissen has proposed a four-day GP weekend format, to allow teams to run third cars for young drivers.

“Laps at a race weekend are no more expensive than laps at normal tests,” the German told the newspaper Stuttgarter Nachrichten. “The only difference is that at a test, there are no spectators in the grandstands.”

It’s such a good idea it almost certainly won’t happen.

Timo Glock set the GP2 pace in Barcelona this morning, ahead of Giorgio Pantano and Kazuki Nakajima. Spins were the order of the day, with Lucas di Grassi, Ho-Pin Tung, Karun Chandhok, Nicolas Lapierre and Jason Tahinci all succumbing.

Ex GP2 driver Alexandre Prémat intends to return to DTM at Lausitz next weekend, after his massive accident at Hockenheim at the start of the season. A back injury forced him to miss the last round of the series at Oschersleben.