Michael Schumacher immediately outpaced team-mate Nico Rosberg as they put the first miles on the new Mercedes Formula 1 car in Valencia on Monday.
The seven-time champion and team-mate Nico Rosberg posed with the silver and turquoise car before Rosberg took it out for the morning session.
He set a time of one minute 13.543 seconds, which Schumacher beat within 20 laps of running in the afternoon.
\\"My first impression of the car was very good,\\" Rosberg said.
\\"But it's too early to tell if it's a winner.
\\"Everything went smoothly. But we have not been on this track for such a long time so it is difficult to compare.
\\"And with the fuel levels you don't know what people are doing.\\"