F1 2019 Pre-Season Testing Thread

[ollandos]

mclaren 1.17.084
red bull 1.17.092
toro rosso 1.17.279


all times on c5 ....

and ferrari 1.17.253 i dont know the tires....wait...

and PI 1.17.556 on c5 ...

[dren]

Leclerc's time was on C2.

[Marc.W]

mclaren 1.17.084
red bull 1.17.092
toro rosso 1.17.279


all times on c5 ....

and ferrari 1.17.253 i dont know the tires....wait...

Sky have said Norris and Gasly were both C4

[1158]

Yeah lol C2 for Leclerc

And AS is showing Albon on the C4 not the C5 for his fast lap. Not sure if that's right tho.

AS also stated they saw the C5s on Norris and Gasly

[1158]

Well now Albon is on the C5. 16.98

[Restomaniac]

https://twitter.com/wbuxtonofficial/sta ... 5049022465

Now I wonder who on here had already made that explanation

[pantherxxx]

That's an impressive lap from Leclerc. If that was really on C2 tyres, the other teams can start to worry.

[equaliser]

Albon looking pretty good for a rookie!

[Alexgtt]

This is hotting up very nicely! Everyone is quicker than we expected. Could this be one of the closest years for quite sometime? As you read it now maybe the front half of the grid are all within a second on ultimate pace?

[dans79]

That's an impressive lap from Leclerc. If that was really on C2 tyres, the other teams can start to worry.

If it was on the C2, it's because he had the PU turned all the way up. His faster C4 time does not show the jump in performance you would expect if that was really a C2 time.

[F1Krof]

12:26 Leclerc's time was set on the C4.

[ollandos]

12:26 Leclerc's time was set on the C4.

yes it was on c4 ...with c5 one lap stind 1.16.949 ..with 0.180 down of his best on sector 3 .. mistake or c5 have a lot of deg until sector 3 ...

[Sevach]

That's an impressive lap from Leclerc. If that was really on C2 tyres, the other teams can start to worry.

If it was on the C2, it's because he had the PU turned all the way up. His faster C4 time does not show the jump in performance you would expect if that was really a C2 time.

It was C2 and he was improving on the next lap but pitted instead.

Bottom to the top.

"08:01 Bit of a tease there from the Ferrari man, who pits at the end of that lap.
Spoilsport.
08:01 Leclerc's set his personal best second sector now.
08:00 Hamilton is back out for Mercedes, too.
08:00 Leclerc jumping that high up the order on the C2 must have raised a smile at Ferrari.
07:59 Norris returns to the track.
07:59 The Red Bull and Renault rivalry takes on another level in 2019 as the former has switched to Honda power. Our partner Pitstop Betting is offering odds of 2/1 that Renault will come out on top this season.
07:58 Leclerc first flying lap is enough for him to find time.
He shoots to third with a 1m17.253s lap as Gasly pits."

[godlameroso]

16.8 for Albon, that was the time Red Bull qualified with last year. Not surprising considering the TR is using a lot of last year's car.

[GrandAxe]

Mercedes claim to have had balance problems in week one don't seem to add up when you consider that they were actually running two variations of front suspension - one normal height and having some rake, the other quite high and running the car parallel to the track.

This leaves a few questions such as; on which of the suspension types they had balance issues, on which corners the problems occurred and so on. Clearly, both those suspension configurations wouldn't have behaved the same.

All the while, Mercedes also had the opposite car concept to the one they were running quietly getting a tan in an autoclave somewhere in England. The car from last week also ran a gamut of aero tests, not just tyre and suspension. Why, if it's carrying an aero concept they'd probably never need?
It would seem that from the onset, they deliberately set out to test both car concepts and last weeks car was far from a mule.

I'm going to make a bold bet. Mercedes is going to use at least three car concepts across this season in order to match the characteristics of the various tracks as much as possible. I'll wager that last weeks car and its high downforce wing will pop up on street circuits; in Monaco, Baku and Singapore. This weeks car might be used at lower downforce/ high speed circuits like spa and Monza. What d'you guys think?