Barcelona Testing 2019 (Circuit de Catalunya)

I do know those guys and girls work v hard, but something cant be right there. Shame as I'd like to see them do well.

IS not actual track time V important for all the obvious reasons; so what could have gone wrong to miss track time?

 

Now they're saying the testing starts in the morning, but the live streaming starts at 1 p.m. UK time.


What?

 

So now they really should bump Latifi off the testing and give their 'new' drivers a proper start.No doubt Paps Latifi has contracts etc in place stating exactly what the boy will be doing this year.

 

Williams truck livery looks better than the cars

 

I get it now!! Ricci picked Reno this season to take this week off

 

Yep live from 1pm-5pm uk time .

Then another 1 hour 5-6 pm uk time reviews.

All 4 days.

 

https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/2853769/barcelona-f1-test-day-one-2019 - Autosport timing

 

Not too bad a start for Kimi ,second behind Vettel ,but now Vettel moving into the low 1:19 's about 1.5 secs faster ...oh well.

 

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

 

That's nice of them. Except it doesn't work (not the code....the whole f'in thing)

 

Vettel already breaks the track lap record of Danny Ric with a 1:18.425.

Ok a long way to go but this is a pretty good start to day 1 testing.

 

Where's the live coverage?

 

encouraging. Someone refresh my memory...did Ric have a late stop last year? fastest lap set on lap 61 last year 1.18.441. if he was on reasonably fresh tyres (fuel load obviously low with 6 laps tops in there) that's a great time.

 

Imagine the Ferraris one or two seconds per lap faster than Merc and RB!

 

Try the live timing link earlier .plus the autosport and sky links.

The real live tv starts in about 1.5 hours

 

Would be fantastic. And red bulls faster than merc.


Ooooh the whining from the mercedes camp.

 

Pole last year was 1:16.173 for info

 

The below nicely put by Sky Sports

A very handy start for Ferrari
It's way too early to read anything significant into Ferrari's fast start but the current headline news is that Vettel has currently completed more laps than any driver and his best lap time is a second and a half faster than any other car has managed...

Its way too early to get excited, but I am excited.

Forza !

 

Evidently Bottas and Max were on the slightly harder tyre ,even so Vettel earned his pasta !

 

Corretion ,Max was also on the softest tyre C3,along with Perez , Kvyat and of course Vettel.The rest on the medium C2 .

Of course the fuel loads are unknown.

 

20:21 Claire Williams: "It is looking more likely than not that we will now not be in a position to run on track until Wednesday at the earliest. This is obviously extremely disappointing, but it is unfortunately the situation we are in. We will be getting the FW42 on track as soon as we are able."

 

F1TV finally works. Epic.

 

She is massively incompetent. I can't comprehend this, really. they give up 25% of their testing!

 

Vettel trying to set the fast lap so he would'nt get outdone by Leclerc.