2018 pre-season testing thread

[Restomaniac]

Air temperature: 10℃
Track temperature: 15℃

Cars on INTERS at the moment, come on Barcelona....give us a little bit more for the last day of the first test

But then Perez goes 4th fastest on full wets.

I think we can safely say the times are meaningless.

Its testing, only times below 1.19 are a somewhat of a indicator

Oh I agree.

[Still an Iceman]

Anyone knows what'going on at Red Bull ?

[bauc]

Anyone knows what'going on at Red Bull ?

Verstapen just came out of the box

[Mikey05021984]

Anyone know how the weather is currently? Still wet it seems allthought temperatures are good, or is it raining?

[Restomaniac]

Anyone know how the weather is currently? Still wet it seems allthought temperatures are good, or is it raining?

By all accounts it's a drying track and not as cold as it has been.

[bauc]

Anyone know how the weather is currently? Still wet it seems allthought temperatures are good, or is it raining?

By all accounts it's a drying track and not as cold as it has been.

Cloudy
Air temperature: 10℃
Track temperature: 16℃

[Restomaniac]

Anyone know how the weather is currently? Still wet it seems allthought temperatures are good, or is it raining?

By all accounts it's a drying track and not as cold as it has been.

Cloudy
Air temperature: 10℃
Track temperature: 16℃

A bit warmer then

[Restomaniac]

It would seem that Bottas and the Merc are in their grove. Not that it means anything but they are just rolling their times down lap after lap.

[Still an Iceman]

Anyone knows what'going on at Red Bull ?

Verstapen just came out of the box

Well, seems like it was just an installation lap. I hope for them that their issue will be solved quickly.

[Restomaniac]

Anyone knows what'going on at Red Bull ?

Verstapen just came out of the box

Well, seems like it was just an installation lap. I hope for them that their issue will be solved quickly.

They're back out now.

[CriXus]

Sebastian Vettel's Long Run on Intermediates

44.4 -> 46.0 -> 44.2 -> 42.6 -> 41.8 -> 40.4 -> 39.7 -> 40.5 -> 38.2 -> 38.8 -> 38.2 -> 37.7 -> 38.2 -> 39.7 -> 37.3 ->
38.6 -> 37.8 -> 38.1 -> 37.5 -> 39.9 -> 36.3 -> 37.1 -> 36.6

[Morteza]

The mileage teams have covered so far:

Williams: 1000.8km
Ferrari: 991.5km
Mercedes: 986.9km
Toro Rosso: 917km
Renault: 837.9km
Red Bull: 828.6km
Sauber: 810km
McLaren: 679.6km
Force India: 502.7km
Haas: 498.1km

[Squid]

I know testing is testing, but Force India's 9 laps to McLaren's 50 doesn't seem good. Same with Red Bull. At least Haas is starting to get some laps in.

[Anthropolyte]

Really nice to see McLaren getting some laps in after their first day. No repeat issues, either, which is promising. What a difference from the last three years!

Only thing that will give them pause is that Toro Rosso have completed far more distance overall, with the Honda engine... Guess Honda have made some significant movement towards reliability, but that may of course be due to turning the engine down. It's going to be very interesting to see how this all pans out when we see some fast laps in second testing.

[Thunder]

Honda improved reliability last Year already. Just look at the Abu Dhabi Post Season Test Lap Count.