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

CaptainRAVE · 22 Feb 2019 at 11:53

EVH said:
My head says Ferrari (Vet) will triumph this year... they were stellar in the first half of 2018 and threw it away but my heart says Mercedes (Ham) will be up there providing the car doesn't suddenly lose 0.3s or explode 4 times in a season

My head said that last year and the year before. Vettel will only win if the car has a decent advantage at every track.

Junglist · 22 Feb 2019 at 11:58

EVH said:
My head says Ferrari (Vet) will triumph this year... they were stellar in the first half of 2018 and threw it away but my heart says Mercedes (Ham) will be up there providing the car doesn't suddenly lose 0.3s or explode 4 times in a season

Based on the last 2 years I'd agree. Unless Vet and Lec end up taking points from one another.

Shimmy · 22 Feb 2019 at 11:59

Certainly feels like Ferrari have an advantage at the start of this season, same as the previous two.

Just how big of an advantage will be very interesting. If it's significant then Leclerc may well be allowed to battle for race wins, if it's tighter then likely we'll see team orders in play.
This wasn't an issue really with Kimi as he often unperformed on a Saturday and didn't kick up a fuss on a Sunday either when Seb needed to move past, but I suspect Charles will qualify much better.

4K8KW10 · 22 Feb 2019 at 13:31

CaptainRAVE said:
My head said that last year and the year before. Vettel will only win if the car has a decent advantage at every track.

Vettel would win only if his head says no to crashing the car into the wall in Germany.

Yaayuh! · 25 Feb 2019 at 08:36

Vettel has the skill for sure, he just needs the car (obviously) but more importantly a cool head. Vettel doesn't do so well under pressure, needs some of Hamilton's zen.

Kanpai · 25 Feb 2019 at 17:45

Pretty cool view;

CaptainRAVE · 26 Feb 2019 at 10:57

Mercedes with some cool updates.

gord · 1 Mar 2019 at 09:35

Shimmy said:
Testing feeds:
https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/2853867/barcelona-f1-test-day-four-2019

Shimmy, that's the first week's link. You want https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/2856678/barcelona-f1-test-two-day-four-2019

Also, just want to say thanks for taking the time to keep this updated.

Shimmy · 1 Mar 2019 at 09:44

gord said:
Shimmy, that's the first week's link. You want https://www.autosport.com/f1/live/2856678/barcelona-f1-test-two-day-four-2019

Also, just want to say thanks for taking the time to keep this updated.

This thread is for Week 1, separate thread for Week 2 and np

gord · 1 Mar 2019 at 10:18

Shimmy said:
This thread is for Week 1, separate thread for Week 2 and np

Gad dammit, my bad. Just clicked the top thread on my page..