Barcelona Testing 2018

[jgonzalesm6]

Skysports


McLaren say Fernando Alonso's car suffered an oil leak.

The Spaniard has left the garage and is in McLaren's hospitality area.

[Super M]

Is Vettel on the Medium compounds or the Unmarked tyre ?

[nani_s23]

Pedro de la rossa on track today. Said Merc is by far the best.

Then it’s better for him to not watch f1 or he didn’t see any other car on track.

[subfire91]

13:11 Hamilton, on the hypersofts, fails to improve. Final sector mistake? His time is a 1m18.723s.
13:11 And the fastest middle sector...
13:10 Hamilton's back out and has set the fastest first sector of anyone so far.

Hamilton sandbagging

[scudieros]

Lewis Hamilton has raised the bar yet again, a 1:18.400 on the ultrasoft compound.

[Vettel165]

Maybe its nothing, but we look very fast on the main straight. Maybe Ferrari found the secret for more engine horse power and we now have a better engine than Mercedes. Remember the articles from last year, they were saying something about a new pistone solution, which should give us more power. If they had done it, we could dominate the field in 2018. But its early days now, we are looking very good for now, lots of km without issues its fantastic news. I have a lot of hope in our team.


https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...inting-870008/

Forza!

[scudieros]

Kimi Raikkonen's fastest lap from last year's pre-season testing was a 1:18.634

[Christopher]

Engine change for Mclaren there test gets even worse

[jgonzalesm6]

Engine change for Mclaren there test gets even worse

They are the first ones to do an engine swap for 2018. You'd think it was Honda 2017 all over again.

[darkchild]

Ferrari really are quite...

[f412]

Ferrari really are quite...

last years best qualifying time on this circuit was 1.19.149 by hamilton(tyre????)
and i t was 1.18.6 in winter testing by kimi on supersoft....
why the qualifying time so higher compared to the first test times???

[nani_s23]

Ferrari really are quite...

It always be quiet before a big storm.

[evo_spook]

Maybe its nothing, but we look very fast on the main straight. Maybe Ferrari found the secret for more engine horse power and we now have a better engine than Mercedes. Remember the articles from last year, they were saying something about a new pistone solution, which should give us more power. If they had done it, we could dominate the field in 2018. But its early days now, we are looking very good for now, lots of km without issues its fantastic news. I have a lot of hope in our team.
https://s10.postimg.org/k6mo0g089/Brez_naslova.png

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f...inting-870008/

Forza!

You are forgetting Aerodynamic drag. the fastest cars on the straight are usually the ones with less downforce.

Force India are usually fastest on a straight and so are hard to overtake but they are never fastest overall as they lose in the corners due to running less downforce.

[qb_marukochan]

last years best qualifying time on this circuit was 1.19.149 by hamilton(tyre????)
and i t was 1.18.6 in winter testing by kimi on supersoft....
why the qualifying time so higher compared to the first test times???

hard medium soft for spain 2017

[jgonzalesm6]

You are forgetting Aerodynamic drag. the fastest cars on the straight are usually the ones with less downforce.

Force India are usually fastest on a straight and so are hard to overtake but they are never fastest overall as they lose in the corners due to running less downforce.

yep

[scudieros]

Daniel Ricciardo has gone faster, a 1:18.047 on the hypersoft compound.

[scudieros]

That might be the last run for Vettel today. Kimi's seat is being fitted. (hopefully he won't need a diaper after what affected him this morning)

[alfaromeo]

Time this year go under 1.18 near 1.17.3 I think

[jgonzalesm6]

laps.....and times

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXryorSX0AAHSsN.jpg

[FerrariSteve]

I've not seen any testing, can we draw any conclusions yet?
Are Merc finally going to get a battle this year or are they going to cruise to another title and give golden boy another undeserved title?

[jgonzalesm6]

The 1:18.047 is the BEST LAP at the Circuit with the current layout!!!!

[ss-89]

Not concerned at all, we nearly always do our quali sims the final two days. You don't win anything in testing and teams will be bringing updates between now and Melbourne. All I care about is where we are on any given Sunday of the race calendar. Everything else is meaningless.

[nani_s23]

Not concerned at all, we nearly always do our quali sims the final two days. You don't win anything in testing and teams will be bringing updates between now and Melbourne. All I care about is where we are on any given Sunday of the race calendar. Everything else is meaningless.

Yeah I agree with you. It’s on Sunday’s that you get points & win championship.

[Christopher]

Kimi to drive this afternoon

[darkchild]

Beautiful!

[mwk360]

did Bottas just do 1:18.6 on medium tyres...? im so glad kimi is here today. hopefully he gets in the car before testing is done

[darkchild]

Yea, and currently on 11lap stint...

Autosport says he was on hypersofts.

[PURE PASSION]

Yep, this looks heartbroken!!!!!

[mizf1]

Yea, and currently on 11lap stint...

Autosport says he was on hypersofts.

Sky said he did a 11 lap stint on mediums then pitted for hypersofts

[mizf1]

Sorry sky reporting bottas used hypersport, f1today showing medium

Sky
That time is more than a second quicker than his previous personal best from testing - but was posted on the hypersoft tyre

F1today
BOTTAS VERY FAST
Valtteri Bottas has improved to a 1:18.658, a very good time on the medium compound.