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A big welcome to Haas F1. Great to have new teams and hopefully new ideas.

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Barcelona testing day 1 - lunchtime 1. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, 1:24.939, 32 laps; 2. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:25.409, 55 laps; 3. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1:26.091, 30 laps; 4. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull, 1:26.704; 5. Carlos Sainz, Toro Rosso, 1:27.180, 35 laps; 6. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:27.691, 22 laps; 7. Marcus Ericson, Sauber, 1:28.165, 27 laps; 8. Romain Grosjean, Haas, 1:28.399 13 laps; 9. Alfonso Celis, Force India, 1:29.668, 17 laps; 10. Jolyon Palmer, Renault, 1:31.351, 15 laps; 11. Pascal Wehrlein, Manor, No time, 2 laps.

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Back testing today http://m.autosport.c...d-f1-test-day-1

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week 2 testing , day 1 lunchtime 1. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1:23.022, soft tyres, 82 laps; 2. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1:24.836, medium tyres, 42 laps; 3. Fernando Alonso, McLaren, 1:25.252, soft tyres, 50 laps; 4. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1:25.255, medium tyres, 58 laps; 5. Max Verstappen, Toro Rosso, 1:25.356, medium tyres, 59 laps; 5 6. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1:25.954, medium tyres, 50 laps; 7. Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull, 1:26.227, medium tyres, 22 laps; 8. Esteban Gutierrez, Haas, 1:26.661, mediums, 23 laps; 9. Felipe Nasr, Sauber, 1:26.923, medium tyres, 42 laps; 10. Kevin Magnussen, Renault, 1:26.981, 54 laps; 11. Rio Haryanto, Manor, No time, 2 laps.

[JG]

McLaren still 2s off the pace.

 

Think It was 5s this time last year

[fezzasus]

The head of Honda's F1 program resigned after the 1st day of testing. That says a lot about the reality of where Mclaren are.

[stu8v]

Is it not an interim engine though? Rumours of a skunkworks parallel engine project that the f1 team never knew about.

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day 1 final times 1. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes, 1:23.022, soft tyres, 82 laps 2. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1:23.229, ultrasoft tyres, 123 laps 3. Fernando Alonso, McLaren, 1:24.735, soft tyres, 93 laps 4. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1:24.836, medium tyres, 72 laps 5. Daniil Kvyat, Red Bull, 1:25.049, soft tyres, 69 laps 6. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1:25.051, medium tyres, 90 laps 7. Max Verstappen, Toro Rosso, 1:25.176, medium tyres, 144 laps 8. Nico Hulkenberg, Force India, 1:25.336, soft tyres, 121 laps 9. Felipe Nasr, Sauber, 1:25.493, soft tyres, 103 laps 10. Kevin Magnussen, Renault, 1:25.760, soft tyres, 119 laps 11. Esteban Gutierrez, Haas, 1:26.661, medium tyres, 23 laps 12. Rio Haryanto, Manor, 1:27.699, medium tyres, 45 laps

[fezzasus]

Is it not an interim engine though? Rumours of a skunkworks parallel engine project that the f1 team never knew about.

 

That sounds far too optimistic. I understand the teams not pushing for ultimate lap times now, but you need to be performing this reliability testing with the right engine, heat rejection of components is critical so it makes no sense to use a different engine.

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day 2 lunchtime 1. Lewis Hamilton, 1:23.622, soft tyres, 73 laps; 2. Kevin Magnussen, Renault, 1:23.933, supersoft tyres, 56 laps; 3. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari, 1:24.611, medium tyres, 63 laps; 4. Valtteri Bottas, Williams, 1:25.151, medium tyres, 57 laps; 5. Jenson Button, McLaren, 1:25.183, soft tyres, 45 laps; 6. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull, 1:25.235, medium tyres, 42 laps; 7. Carlos Sainz, Toro Rosso, 1:25.300, medium tyres, 59 laps; 8. Sergio Perez, Force India, 1:26.188, medium tyres, 58 laps; 9. Pascal Wehrlein, Manor, 1:27.064, soft tyres, 43 laps; 10. Marcus Ericsson, Sauber, 1:30.309, medium tyres, 7 laps; 11. Esteban Gutierrez, Haas, No time, 1 lap

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Go red team! 

 

Or have Merc been sandbagging?

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tyre choices

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