F1 2020 Testing - Day 3 Review

It was a crazy day today with action immediately as Kevin Magnussen had a puncture which ended his afternoon early. However, the problems didn't end there are both Williams, Renault and Ferrari also ran into reliability issues bot over all, it was another day of Mercedes domination.

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First F1 test finishes with a Mercedes 1-2

The first F1 test of the 2020 season is in the books with Valtteri Bottas heading a Mercedes 1-2 at the top of the timesheet.

Valtteri Bottas upped the ante during Friday’s morning session with the softest C5 tyres strapped on, setting an eye-catching 1:15.732 which is the quickest time of testing so far and half a second quicker than the quickest time of 2019 testing from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.

Lewis Hamilton took over driving duties in the afternoon session and also tried the C5 compound on for size, but a mistake on his hot lap ensured he would finish 0.784 seconds behind his team-mate.

The final day of the first test saw the red flags waved on four occasions at the Circuit de Catalunya. On-track stoppages in the morning for Vettel and Williams’ Nicholas Latifi were followed by further stops in the afternoon for Haas’ Kevin Magnussen and Daniel Ricciardo in the Renault.

Magnussen, after taking over from Romain Grosjean, could only complete four laps before a right rear puncture forced him into a big spin at Turn 9.

That was game and testing over for Haas with two-and-a-half hours of the afternoon session remaining.

It also looked like Renault would have to abruptly end their running, too, when a mechanical issue relating to the RS20 engine brought Ricciardo to a grinding halt.

However, he was able to return to the track within the final hour and improve from P14 to P7 as the sun set in Barcelona. His team-mate Esteban Ocon occupied P3 following a productive morning stint.

Lance Stroll popped his pink Mercedes in the lofty heights of P4 and was followed on the leaderboard by AlphaTauri’s Daniil Kvyat and Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi. The latter finishing the day as the lap leader with a whopping 150+ laps under his belt.

Max Verstappen, P8, and Alex Albon, P10, also combined to take Red Bull beyond the 150-lap mark as they continued to quietly go about their business.

Pierre Gasly was also in the top 10 mix, with Carlos Sainz and Grosjean just outside.

And then you will finally get to one Sebastian Vettel down in P13. After an enforced engine change kept him out of action for a few hours, he returned to the track in the afternoon and thankfully ran without any further complications.

McLaren’s Lando Norris, P14, also spent a lot of time in the garage on Friday afternoon before a late flurry of action.

The second and final three-day pre-season test before the season opener in Australia is on Wednesday, February 26, starting at 9am local time.

Binotto reveals concerns over Ferrari’s pace

Mattia Binotto has revealed concerns over Ferrari’s pace in testing and is “not as optimistic” as he was at this stage in 2019.

Ferrari are usually the ones pumping up the hype machine with headline times in pre-season testing, but they have stayed firmly off the radar on the fastest lap timesheet so far with the Scuderia posting a best time of 1:18.154 – quicker than only Williams and Haas.

Whether the concern is actually genuine or whether Ferrari are taking a page out of Mercedes’ old playbook by praising their rivals and downplaying themselves remains to be seen.

But that is stance that Binotto took when talking to the press during the final day of the first winter test.

“Looking at the delta pace and eventually what we may assess in terms of fuel load, which you never know in terms of engine modes, etc – looking at the picture relative to ourselves, I think we are not as fast as they are,” Binotto told reporters at a media session in Barcelona.

“I’m not as optimistic as last year. The others are faster than us at the moment I believe.

“How much faster I think it’s really difficult to judge.

“We will go through all the data in the next days. But I don’t think we are as fast as them at the moment.