World champion Kimi Raikkonen set the pace in Bahrain after completing 74 laps, beating his best time from Tuesday by a tenth of a second with 1:30.455 seconds. This time was about four seconds faster than the fastest lap recorded in 2007 Bahrain Grand Prix, and the fastest qualifying lap for that race was1:31:359 seconds.

Felipe Massa also joined the test in Bahrain using different car set up than his teammate and making a fastest lap of 1:31.239 seconds. The team seems to be way ahead from other teams of the grid. Trulli was third with the Toyota and Kobayashi was fourth, with the other Toyota.