F1 2019 Pre-Season Testing Thread

[TimmTurbo]

AMuS Ticker just put in a post referring to the noticeable tire degradation of Leclerc`s long run yesterday. They were talking to a different team about that. The guy stated that they have whitnessed that Leclerc`s tires were already 8 laps old and was already suffering from graining

As I understood with translation: AmuS wrote - tires were used much, so after additional 8 laps they were granulated a lot

They said the tires were used in the previous 8 Lap stint and there they already sufferd from graining. Hence its no wonder that the degradation was that severe. German is my mother language

[Morteza]

George Russell will drive for Williams today (when their car is ready that is)

[motobaleno]

vettel stint on C2:
19.591
32.128
19.350
34.131
20.430
20.306
20.554
20.901
21.509
21.638

Do we have something similiar for other cars?

[gargour87]

Ferraris times always fade on the last 2 laps, they lost 2 seconds in 10 lap stint

[LM10]

Speed trap:

Bottas: 318 km/h
Räikkönen: 312 km/h
Verstappen: 312 km/h
Fittipaldi: 311 km/h
Vettel: 307 km/h
Kvyat: 298 km/h

[nevill3]

Craig Slater of Sky has just reported that the Williams has been fired up for the first time....

[SiLo]

Apparently Bottas confirmed yesterday in an interview that Mercedes are basically just cruising around trying to do more constant speeds on the straights to get good aero data. I can't find the interview to verify however.

[Tzk]

Well, it's quite obvious that Ferrari is currently using higher powermodes than the mercs. Mercs are just crusing and collecting data while Ferrari is testing longrun pace (not completely flatout, but with higher powermodes). Currently Vettels seems to test how strong the tires are in terms of overheating and degradation.

[LM10]

Vettel's stint on C2:

Out
18.6
33.2
19.0
32.5
20.4
19.9
20.0
20.0
20.1
20.3
20.3
In

[Morteza]

https://twitter.com/F1/status/1098158962472562688

[Tzk]

Read the replies to that tweet... Someone suggested it's just Frank who's fuming

[Morteza]

Read the replies to that tweet... Someone suggested it's just Frank who's fuming

Someone had posted this

[Big Mangalhit]

wings are wider now, so I predict times to be significantly faster than last year.

It seems my prediction was correct. The wider wings are more than offsetting the previous, more intricate, endplate, flaps and etc

Why do you think your prediction is correct? I fail to say any last year record being broken yet. And don't forget these cars will have one year of all around development it is expected of them to be the fastest ever even with the hamper of the new restrictions

[etusch]

Read the replies to that tweet... Someone suggested it's just Frank who's fuming

Someone had posted this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dz1yMKDWwAALDYP.jpg

My favorit is that
https://twitter.com/Gauche124/status/10 ... 25538?s=19

[TimmTurbo]

AMuS ist reporting that RB is now fitting the actual rear wing which supposedly produces more downforce