2023 Pre-Season Testing - Bahrain International Circuit, Feb 23 - 25

[JPower]

In terms of performance characteristics, it doesn’t seem like much has changed among the top 3 to be honest. Red Bull still fast, easy on tires and very efficient, Ferrari quick but still sorting through tire deg, Mercedes good on long runs but still lacking outright pace.

Might change next weekend though.

[mkay]

In terms of performance characteristics, it doesn’t seem like much has changed among the top 3 to be honest. Red Bull still fast, easy on tires and very efficient, Ferrari quick but still sorting through tire deg, Mercedes good on long runs but still lacking outright pace.

Might change next weekend though.

HAM's race sim at dusk was slower than Sainz's race sim in the afternoon by a wide margin. HAM's car may not have been setup optimally, but a 1s/lap delta would be hard to bridge, even with better setup.

[f1jcw]

Why is George just wandering around!, get in the car and do some work!

[Wouter]

[LM10]

In terms of performance characteristics, it doesn’t seem like much has changed among the top 3 to be honest. Red Bull still fast, easy on tires and very efficient, Ferrari quick but still sorting through tire deg, Mercedes good on long runs but still lacking outright pace.

Might change next weekend though.

HAM's race sim at dusk was slower than Sainz's race sim in the afternoon by a wide margin. HAM's car may not have been setup optimally, but a 1s/lap delta would be hard to bridge, even with better setup.

Ferrari have not done a race sim yet.

Generally speaking long stints should not be looked at as stints out of a race sim. Some people look at a stint of for example 10 laps with a lap time difference of over a second from first to last lap and call it a big tyre wear problem. In reality teams just test various things.

Only proper race sims of a whole race distance in similar conditions can be compared. But even then we can’t be entirely sure of PU modes and fuel levels .

[De Jokke]

Can someone enlighten why AM looks so strong? Any light that can be shed on their car development over the winter?
Thx

[chrisc90]

Can someone enlighten why AM looks so strong? Any light that can be shed on their car development over the winter?
Thx

Dan Fallows

[Spoutnik]

After cleaning up the lap times from yersteday I tried to look at the average pace of everyone on long runs





The data from the afternoon (the others are in the tweet)

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Sam Collins flipping off the world feed. Impressive

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Russell has stopped on track - Red flag. Ant reckons hydraulic issue

Get those cameras ready

[etusch]

maybe this mean that new guy will drive first few races.

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Oil leak for the RB19 so it's not woes only at Mercedes

Just under an hour and a half left on the clock in Bahrain. Red flag after stopping George Russell.

Meanwhile, Max Verstappen has only completed 18 laps (and the fastest time). RB19 has been inside for some time due to an oil leak.

[LM10]

Amazing how long it takes them to recover a single car on track.

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Amazing how long it takes them to recover a single car on track.

Merc have no urgency in this situation to be honest, it seems strange to rely on people to do something who benefit from limiting others' running now that there's is likely finished..

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Oil leak for the RB19 so it's not woes only at Mercedes

Just under an hour and a half left on the clock in Bahrain. Red flag after stopping George Russell.

Meanwhile, Max Verstappen has only completed 18 laps (and the fastest time). RB19 has been inside for some time due to an oil leak.

Max back out now I guess the oil leak is fixed