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Nico Hulkenberg, Paul di Resta, Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Giedo van der Garde and Daniel Ricciardo all out too.
Mark Webber wastes no time heading out - there was about one second between the green flags flying and his RB9 bursting out of the Red Bull garage.
And we're green.
It's another testing favourite - screen watch. As the McLaren returns to the pitlane, the team are quick to pull up several borders to shroud the car from the rest of the pitlane. They haven't thought about the media centre though - one floor up, we've got the perfect view...
Risky move as the course car dives down the outside of the low loader down the main straight. It's side by side for a while, until the course car cedes position just before the pair turn into the pitlane.
And we're loaded up. The car is on the truck, Button has been whisked away and we should be looking at an imminent resumption.
Jenson Button stops at Turn 4, clambers out and then watches on as three marshal trucks arrive, realise they can't do anything and then stand and watch themselves (yes, it's our first marshal/truck watch of 2013 testing). Eventually McLaren pull up and the covers go on, just as the low loader appears.
First red flag of the day (and 2013 in fact), and it's for McLaren.
Incidentally, Valtteri Bottas - or just BOTTAS as he's known in the AUTOSPORT towers - is on Twitter. Get following him here.
The eagle-eyed Glenn Freeman has pointed out that while Williams may not have its 2013 car here at Jerez, it is at least running with a vanity panel on its stepped front nose
Rosberg, Maldonado and now Daniel Ricciardo all out on track now. Only Romain Grosjean and Lotus yet to venture out in the opening 25 minutes
AUTOSPORT contributor Craig Scarborough has also been busy getting underneath the skin of several of 2013's likely challengers, including the offerings from Lotus, McLaren and Ferrari. It's the Red Bull RB9 which he feels is still the class of the field - and you can read why here.
Massa in after three laps, and we have a track lull: the perfect opportunity to alert you to some of the features AUTOSPORT will be running during this first week of testing.
To start us off, there's the AUTOSPORT top 10 winter testing shocks, which features retro McLarens, a hoodwinking Prost and a rather bizarre Williams...
To start us off, there's the AUTOSPORT top 10 winter testing shocks, which features retro McLarens, a hoodwinking Prost and a rather bizarre Williams...
Williams 6 wheeler
News from Edd Straw in the pitlane: Mercedes went for a full practice start, but after roaring away in first gear the car suddenly dipped into neutral on the shift up to second gear.
And Massa claims the honour of the first flying lap, a 1m35.607s
Game of swaps in the pitlane, as van der Garde heads in for Caterham just as Chilton heads out for Marussia. Massa follows Rosberg's lead and flies down the main straight
Caterham now out, joined shortly by Felipe Massa on the green intermediate compound - like we said, it's cold...
And now our first lap (ish) - Nico Rosberg elects not to dive into the pits and instead completes the first run down the main straight
Pastor Maldonado joins the fray, and we have our first glimpse of Pirelli's 2013 orange-marked hard compounds
We're underway. Nico Hulkenberg is the first man out on track for Sauber, beating Mark Webber in the Red Bull by fractions of a second
Speaking of Button, his now ex-team-mate Lewis Hamilton is perched on the end of the Jerez pitwall
Incidentally, its not warm at Jerez. Jenson Button's trying the age old trick of a hot drink...
Jenson Button Jerez 2013
Into the final 10 minutes, which seems as good a time as any to recap today's line-up: Felipe Massa for Ferrari, Jenson Button (McLaren), Paul di Resta (Force India), Giedo van der Garde (Caterham), Max Chilton (Marussia), Daniel Ricciardo (Toro Rosso), Mark Webber (Red Bull), Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber), Lotus (Romain Grosjean), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) and Pastor Maldonado (Williams). Phew.
45 minutes into the day and we've already had two new F1 cars launched. Pretty soon, we'll have them all out on track - although Williams will of course be running its 2012 FW34 here in Jerez.
AUTOSPORT's Jonathan Noble is down in the pitlane as Caterham unveils its 2013 challenger. He's a handy snapper too.
We've also got Caterham's unveiling at 08:45, before the test kicks of in earnest in just under half an hour.
The sun is just breaking over the hills of Jerez, but we've already had action in the pitlane as Marussia unveiled the MR02, the first true product of the team's revamped technical structure.
Check it out here.
Marussia MR02
Check it out here.
Good morning and welcome to the first AUTOSPORT Live commentary of the 2013 season, as Formula 1 testing kicks off at Jerez.
By: Sam Tremayne, Matt Beer, Glenn Freeman, Geoff Creighton
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