F1 Testing 2019: Week 1 Barcelona (18th - 21st)

MrKnifey said:
The beginning of the end for Williams?
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The car is running late, it's nothing that hasn't happened before to pretty much every team. Ferrari on occasion turned up with the new car several races into the new season.
The aero and tyre changes means that it's a little more important to get a handle on things quickly this year.
 
Flibster said:
The car is running late, it's nothing that hasn't happened before to pretty much every team. Ferrari on occasion turned up with the new car several races into the new season.
The aero and tyre changes means that it's a little more important to get a handle on things quickly this year.
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Vettel worked hard today:

Vettel - 156 laps
Verstappen - 112
Sainz - 107
Raikkonen - 100
Hamilton - 76
Kvyat - 73
Bottas - 69
Hulkenberg - 65
Grosjean - 54
Ricciardo - 44
Perez - 30


https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/2853769/barcelona-f1-test-day-one-2019
 
Oh god, it’s started. Some sites are reporting that Ferrari are the fastest team ever based on day 1 lap times :D

They do this every year... pump in quick times, praise the car to the nth degree and proclaim that testing was “perfect”.

They love the media headlines more than the reality of it all. I’ve even seen headlines saying that Ferrari have blown away all the teams already.

Every year it’s the same. We should judge the cars at Melbourne but we have people (not necessarily on here) in the media reading too much in to times without knowing fuel loads or testing programmes.
 
Flibster said:
The car is running late, it's nothing that hasn't happened before to pretty much every team. Ferrari on occasion turned up with the new car several races into the new season.
The aero and tyre changes means that it's a little more important to get a handle on things quickly this year.
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Bringing their best/new car into the season is entirely different to bringing no car to testing.

Ultimately you can bolt a front/rear wing onto last year's car and go around if you have all the rest of the stuff you need.

On the other hand you often have situations where teams say yup, we're totally going to be there, just a day late, then it's another day, then the third they say there is an issue, then they suddenly turn up and it's announced they have a new title sponsor and were actually hours away from being unable to pay bills and would have cars repossessed. Other times teams fold while they are putting a brave face on it trying to make themselves seem better to sponsors.

Other times it's purely just a delay in parts. The real issue though again is why aren't they just running the test parts they had last year. A bunch of cars including Williams iirc, ran prototype wings in testing last year so why aren't they just running that car.

I'm not saying Williams are about to fold but a lot of times teams are in financial trouble and about to fold this is often how these things play out.

two things to think about, if it's not financial they just put any car on track and give their drivers experience, why wouldn't they?

The other is, WCC, Stroll, Martini, they've lost a lot of their income compared to last year. They've brought on Rokit but I haven't even seen a rough guess at how much they got it for. It's quite possible Williams are literally 10s of millions down compared to last season and I really wouldn't be surprised if they were having financial issues.

There is also a rumour supposedly from an insider that says their internal simulations put this year's car 2 seconds slower than last year's car. Their aero department is a complete disaster so if they had to break what speed they had with the new wings and couldn't find improvements, it's worrying.
 
Salaries:

Alexander Alban
Toro Rosso
$ 170,000

George Russell
Williams
$ 180,000

Antonio Jovanattsi
Alfa Romeo
$ 230,000

Lando Norris
McLaren
$ 260,000

Daniel Kwiat
Toro Rosso
$ 300,000

Robert Kubica
Williams
$ 570,000

Kevin Magnusen
Haas
$ 1,200,000

Lance Stroll
Racing Point
$ 1,200,000

Pierre Gusley
Red Bull
$ 1,400,000

Romen Grojan
Haas
$ 1,800,000

Sergio Perez
Racing Point
$ 3,500,000

Charles Lekler
Ferrari
$ 3,500,000

Carlos Sainz Jr.
McLaren
$ 4,000,000

Nico Hulkenberg
Renault
$ 4,500,000

Kimi Raikkonen
Alfa Romeo
$ 4,500,000

Valteri Bottas
Mercedes
$ 8,500,000

Max Verstappen
Red Bull
$ 13,500,000

Daniel Ricciardo
Renault
$ 17,000,000

Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
$ 45,000,000

Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
$ 57,000,000
 
Mr Jack said:
Source?
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One website in another language, which Google Translate failed to reproduce properly, and I didn't have neither the time nor the willingness to typos-correct.
I thought you won't ask.

Here is another, they are many, try Google with F1 drivers 2019 salaries, incl. YouTube: https://racing-elite.com/2019/01/19/revealed-2019-f1-driver-salaries-who-is-the-richest-f1-driver/

Alexander Albon – Toro Rosso: 150.000 €
George Russell – Williams: 160.000 €
Antonio Giovinazzi – Alfa Romeo: 200.000 €
Lando Norris – Mclaren: 225.000 €
Daniil Kvyat – Toro Rosso: 275.000 €
Robert Kubica – Williams: 500.000 €
Kevin Magnussen – Haas; 1.000.000 €
Lance Stroll – Racing Point: 1.000.000 €
Pierre Gasly – Red Bull; 1.200.000 €
Romain Grosjean – Haas; 1.500.000 €
Sergio Perez – Racing Point; 3.000.000 €
Charles Leclerc – Ferrari: 3.000.000 €
Carlos Sainz – Mclaren: 3.500.000 €
Nico Hulkenberg – Renault: 4.000.000 €
Kimi Raikkonen – Alfa Romeo: 4.000.000 €
Valtteri Bottas – Mercedes; 7.500.000 €
Max Verstappen – Red Bull; 12.000.000 €
Daniel Ricciardo – Renault: 15.000.000 €
Sebastian Vettel – Ferrari; 40.000.000 €
Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes; 50.000.000 €
 
Mr Jack said:
Source?
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Judging by the remedial spelling, someone's arse probably.

4K8KW10 said:
One website in another language, which Google Translate failed to reproduce properly
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BS. Google translate won't translate words it doesn't recognise, so the names would have been left alone.

It certainly does not change unrecognised words to be spelled phonetically.
 
Spunkey said:
BS. Google translate won't translate words it doesn't recognise, so the names would have been left alone.

It certainly does not change unrecognised words to be spelled phonetically.
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What if the two languages use different alphabets? E.g. a Greek website couldn't just be copied directly by Translate into English.
 
Car prep not entirely perfect at Renault. Ricciardo had part of his rear wing come off. Nursed it back to the garage.

Better to find it now than in qually or race at Melbourne I guess.
 
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