F1 2019 Pre-Season Testing Thread

[marmer]

Anyone have the data for amount of laps honda power has managed on day one before goods numbers being done today it seems

[Morteza]

AMUS reports, new Williams only completed Wednesday now.

It's getting worse, sadly. What is wrong with this team?

[TankMarvin]

Compound1 is hardest and 5 is softest, aren't they?

Yes - at each race white is hard, yellow = medium, red = soft.

So the "No Brackets" tyre designs (C1 & C5 on the image above) are only relevant for testing because at a race there will only be white, yellow and red (with the bracket/stripe designs) ?

[santos]

AMUS reports, new Williams only completed Wednesday now.

It's getting worse, sadly. What is wrong with this team?

The car is already in Barcelona. So why wouldn't they run tomorrow?

[Morteza]

AMUS reports, new Williams only completed Wednesday now.

It's getting worse, sadly. What is wrong with this team?

The car is already in Barcelona. So why wouldn't they run tomorrow?

If you mean this

It's last year's car by the looks of it
I also found this

RaceFans understands from a source at the team that the first completed FW42 will be airfreighted to the track early on Wednesday morning.

[sn809]

Compound1 is hardest and 5 is softest, aren't they?

Yes - at each race white is hard, yellow = medium, red = soft.

So the "No Brackets" tyre designs (C1 & C5 on the image above) are only relevant for testing because at a race there will only be white, yellow and red (with the bracket/stripe designs) ?

No all 5 race tyres but in one race only 3 will be available and they will be red white and yellow

[santos]

It's getting worse, sadly. What is wrong with this team?

The car is already in Barcelona. So why wouldn't they run tomorrow?

If you mean this
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzrkeUBXQAAjWCD.jpg
It's last year's car by the looks of it

Yes… Albert Fabrega said that the 2019 is already in the garage.

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."

[FrukostScones]

Compound1 is hardest and 5 is softest, aren't they?

Yes - at each race white is hard, yellow = medium, red = soft.

So the "No Brackets" tyre designs (C1 & C5 on the image above) are only relevant for testing because at a race there will only be white, yellow and red (with the bracket/stripe designs) ?

for the races will be picked 3 of the C1-C5 , which are then colored white yellow red , hard to the softest.
so forget the colors of the testing ... it is just to distinguish them at testing,
now C3 yellow! for testing can be red (soft) or white (hard)for some races theoretically.
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/911613/1/ ... 2019-races

[Morteza]

[yelistener]

Holy moly Ferrari is fast.
1:18.161 would sound like the pole lap time of 2019 Spanish GP if you think about it: 2018 had new tarmac and better aero, so a 2s difference sounded about right for 2019 pole, but, NO, Ferrari did it in testing day 1 lol

I guess we just under-estimated the 2019 cars (or, over-estimated the effect of the new 2019 regulations)?

[Neno]

Holy moly Ferrari is fast.
1:18.161 would sound like the pole lap time of 2019 Spanish GP if you think about it: 2018 had new tarmac and better aero, so a 2s difference sounded about right for 2019 pole, but, NO, Ferrari did it in testing day 1 lol

I guess we just under-estimated the 2019 cars, but over-estimated the effect of the new 2019 regulations?

it's called 500M budget and over 1000 of workforce in factory.

[TwanV]

Holy moly Ferrari is fast.
1:18.161 would sound like the pole lap time of 2019 Spanish GP if you think about it: 2018 had new tarmac and better aero, so a 2s difference sounded about right for 2019 pole, but, NO, Ferrari did it in testing day 1 lol

I guess we just under-estimated the 2019 cars, but over-estimated the effect of the new 2019 regulations?

Yeah it's surprising that they're pushing out of the box, but this is first day of testing. It is unlikely these cars won't be faster than last year, all teams have said that these regulations have zero impact on speed and wake turbulence and Q2 pole time was ~1.16.100

[NathanOlder]

Holy moly Ferrari is fast.
1:18.161 would sound like the pole lap time of 2019 Spanish GP if you think about it: 2018 had new tarmac and better aero, so a 2s difference sounded about right for 2019 pole, but, NO, Ferrari did it in testing day 1 lol

I guess we just under-estimated the 2019 cars, but over-estimated the effect of the new 2019 regulations?

There's no way that the cars will be 2 seconds slower than last years cars from round 5.

[jjn9128]

Holy moly Ferrari is fast.
1:18.161 would sound like the pole lap time of 2019 Spanish GP if you think about it: 2018 had new tarmac and better aero, so a 2s difference sounded about right for 2019 pole, but, NO, Ferrari did it in testing day 1 lol

I guess we just under-estimated the 2019 cars (or, over-estimated the effect of the new 2019 regulations)?

The 1.5s figure was always quoted for the first wind tunnel run with the new car - it's a bit disingenuous. They claw that back pretty quickly by adapting to the new flow regime.

“We predicted an impact of 1.5s per lap when we [first tested] in the wind tunnel [and] it’s what we got,” said Binotto.

[Mach]

I imagine Seb is out to prove his worth this year along with a sound Ferrari SF90 right out of the box