And as we say that, Albon briefly tours the pits before returning to the track. This could be a race simulation incoming, starting on the soft compound.
But breaking the silence around the Bahrain International Circuit, Albon has taken to the track. Far from being a hot lap on the C4 tyre, he is now coasting around.
For those of you who have only just joined us, the action was halted for 27 minutes this morning when a drain cover again came loose at Turn 11. So as not to lose track time, the lunch break was cancelled, with running now scheduled to continue through to 4pm GMT, 7pm local time.
Thanks Stephen! As you say, we're in a slight lull in proceedings at the minute and, coincidentally, this has landed exactly where the lunch break should have been.
This pause in on-track action seems like the perfect moment for the Autosport live text relay baton to move on to Sam Hall as the final half day of F1 2024 testing is under way.
Continuing the flow-vis watch from earlier, and there's a liberal dose of green paint on the front left of Sainz's car as he's back to being the only driver out on track.
Perez is now the latest to head back out and, like Sainz, he's on the C3 tyres. Seems that some of the other teams are using what should be the lunchbreak to have, well, some lunch.
Sainz now has company as Albon ventures back out in the Williams. In contrast, one car we haven't seen for a very long time is the McLaren and clearly all is not quite well with its MCL38.
And, now Albon has completed his latest single-lap soft tyre run, the track falls silent with everyone currently in the pits. You could be forgiven for thinking it's Abu Dhabi FP1...
Meanwhile, the contrast between the complexity of the modern F1 steering wheel and the humble wooden-handled hammer next to it in the Haas garage is certainly something to behold!
The tool kits are out down at Mercedes as fairly extensive work is taking place all across the car. Magnussen, meanwhile, is fiddling around with the Haas cockpit before climbing onboard.
Worth remembering there is no lunchbreak today after the latest drain debacle, meaning teams will have to select when they want to convert their cars to suit driver number two.
Back to flow-vis watch, not the most exciting of activities we're not afraid to admit, it's the rear wing of the Red Bull that is the latest to be doused in the luminescent green paint.
While we've been adding up the laps, Albon has continued to dip in and out of the pits on his soft tyres with no representative times set. On his latest lap, his first sector was 6s off the pace.
Here's the complete rundown of laps completed so far, just in case you were wondering: 1. Haas 347 2. Ferrari 330 3. RB 313 4. Red Bull 311 5. Aston Martin 303 6. Mercedes 289 7. Sauber 283 8. Alpine 283 9. McLaren 237 10. Williams 218
In contrast to Haas' 344 laps, Williams is down on just 218, while McLaren is only slightly better at 237. In this modern era of impressive reliability, it is quite a difference still.
It may have had a difficult test in terms of lap times, but there is one leaderboard Haas continues to top: the number of laps completed. It was already fractionally ahead of Red Bull and Ferrari going into today and now Magnussen is top of this morning's runners as well with another 73 in the books.
Albon has spent quite a while in the pits but has just ventured out on the soft rubber, so let's see what the Williams is capable of. He's still only completed 66 laps so far all test, fewer than Ricciardo's managed this morning alone in the RB.
Back to the subject of flow-vis and Ricciardo has got a decent covering of the green paint on his car for this latest run on the C1s. But there are still no representative times from the Aussie from his 66 laps to date.
We've mentioned before how plenty of the cars have been seen with a bit of flow-vis over the past few days, but none on quite the scale of Robert Kubica's Williams here in 2018. Somewhere underneath all the kaleidoscope of colours is the white, blue and red Martini livery!
Perez is out of the Red Bull, deep in conversation with Adrian Newey as mechanics surround the car - is this a sign they're getting ready for Verstappen to take over, or is it just adjustments for the Mexican?
The TV cameras are showing a lot of Sainz's pace-setting Ferrari at the moment and that means plenty of sightings of the Peroni logos that are now adorning the car. Still, there's only six hours of testing to go...
Perez is currently out on track using the C2 rubber but his lap times are some way off his earlier best, suggesting this could perhaps be a high-fuel run.
It's been quite a while since the McLaren of Lando Norris has ventured out on the track and he has completed the fewest miles of all so far today with 20 laps (less than half of Ricciardo's 55) - perhaps a sign of a further issue after the team struggled with a problem at the rear of the car yesterday.
While we were talking about tyres, Ocon registered an improvement in the Alpine on the C3 rubber to climb from ninth to eighth, but he's still 1.8s off the pace of Sainz's table-topping Ferrari at present.
We've talked a few times about the different tyre compounds in use for this test with the majority of teams favouring the middle-of-the-range C3s. Here's what Pirelli boss Mario Isola has to say on the subject of the difference between compounds: "We know that, for example, between C1 and C2, the delta is quite small, a few tenths of a second, between C2 and C3, usually it's a bit bigger, like one second [or] 1.2s per lap, C3 and C4 we estimate the delta that is in the range of 0.6s-0.7s. I wouldn't take the delta between C4 and C5 because they are not the right compounds to be used in Bahrain. Obviously, you can fit a C5 and try to do a fast lap - but this is one of the highest severity tracks in terms of degradation because of the type of asphalt, the traction that is required, so you degrade the rear tyre."
There's fairly extensive work going on down at Mercedes now as the team looks to delve deeper into some of the challenges Hamilton has faced this morning.
Ricciardo is still languishing at the bottom of the timesheets as we approach the three-hour mark in this session. He's just improved fractionally but remains 6.6s off the pace.
