F1 2019 - Barcelona 1st Test chat

[BrettMRC]

First weeks testing is now live.

Ferrari and Sauber/Alfa top the board after an hour or so of running.

[Cyder]

Kimi's already has a visit to the cat litter hasn't he?

An Williams are preparing for Brexit by staying in Grove today at least.

[t400ble]

Are the team in Spain or just back at base?

[thegreenhell]

t400ble said:

Are the team in Spain or just back at base?

Hopefully they are at least on their way there, if not there already. If they're still in Grove then they have no chance of getting there for tomorrow either.

[Deesee]

DRS is looking a little larger..

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/arv986/...

[Deesee]

Live Timing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV9TMBlAdm0&fe...

[ajprice]

GP Today https://www.gptoday.net/en/live/f1/245223/live-upd...

Sky https://www.skysports.com/f1/live-blog

Autosport https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/2853769/barcelon...

Early days but it's good to see Mclaren getting laps and times on board. Both Honda teams took a while to get going.

[HorneyMX5]

Looking forward to seeing what falls out (or off lol) during the testing.

[suffolk009]

I see Kimis been in the kitty litter.

[ajprice]

Just over 2 hours in, Vettel's put in a 1:19.1, a second faster than last year's fastest day 1 time (Danny Ric in the Red Bull).

[thegreenhell]

Can't really compare to last year's testing, because they were almost running on snow tyres then.

[geeks]

Testing 1 - Day One times from 2018:

Driver	Team	Laps	Fastest Time	Tyre
Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull	105	1:20.179	Mediums
Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	58	1:20.349	Mediums
Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	80	1:20.506	Softs
Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	73	1:20.547	Softs
Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso	26	1:22.168	Softs
Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	25	1.22.327	Mediums
Fernando Alonso	McLaren	51	1:22.354	Supersofts
Brendon Hartley	Toro Rosso	93	1:22.371	Softs
Lance Stroll	Williams	46	1:22.452	Mediums
Romain Grosjean	Haas	55	1:22.578	Softs
Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	63	1:23.408	Softs
Nikita Mazepin	Force India	22	1:25.628	Mediums
Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	28	1:44.1	Softs

[MikeyC]

VET 1m 18.425 - Track temp is 0 C
Fastest Qualy in 2018 was 1m 16.1, so pretty fast already if they're supposedly 1.5s slower than last year ?

[HustleRussell]

Red Bull Honda currently the fastest in the end of main straight speed trap

[geeks]

HustleRussell said:

Red Bull Honda currently the fastest in the end of main straight speed trap

Yeah it's not really a true test of the Honda unit yet though, unknown fuel loads, downforce etc. This early on in testing its difficult to read much into it

[HustleRussell]

geeks said:

HustleRussell said:

Red Bull Honda currently the fastest in the end of main straight speed trap

Yeah it's not really a true test of the Honda unit yet though, unknown fuel loads, downforce etc. This early on in testing its difficult to read much into it

Obviously.

[ajprice]

HustleRussell said:

Red Bull Honda currently the fastest in the end of main straight speed trap

Verstappen 320km/h
Perez 319km/h
Sainz 318km/h
Raikkonen 318km/h
Vettel 314km/h
Grosjean 307km/h

[andburg]

MikeyC said:

VET 1m 18.425 - Track temp is 0 C
Fastest Qualy in 2018 was 1m 16.1, so pretty fast already if they're supposedly 1.5s slower than last year ?

I was thinking the same!

[Some Gump]

Can anyone photoshop the italian flag on the front wing end plate of the Alfa? That big white bit of unused real restate looks cack!

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Are Sky only covering the afternoon sessions? Never watched live testing, I imagine there must be a huge amount of air to fill (which doesn't bode well in Lenny is there).