Formula 1 Pre-season Testing February 2020

[Supersam83]

Barcelona testing schedule:

Circuit de Catalunya

Wednesday, 19 February - Friday, 21 February

Wednesday, 26 February - Friday, 28 February

F1.com said:

2020 pre-season testing kicks off on February 19 – and after a long, F1-less winter for fans, the sport is coming back with a bang, with all six days of testing set to be broadcast live on F1 TV Pro for the very first time, alongside a full live timing experience.

Subscribers to F1 TV Pro*, as well as Sky F1 UK and Sky F1 Italia viewers, will be able to tune into live coverage of the tests at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya from 0900 to 1300 CET and then again from 1400 to 1800 each day – that’s February 19-21 and February 26-28 – as the teams descend on the Spanish track to get their first look at the pecking order for the 2020 season.

F1 TV Pro will also host a daily Tech Talk show – analysing the latest innovations the teams are trialling for 2020 – as well as full coverage of the new lunchtime press conferences, due to be held daily across testing. Sky F1 UK’s round-up show will also be available on F1 TV Pro.

Improving the viewing experience even more, meanwhile, with 2020 marking the first year that pre-season testing will be an official F1 event, the teams have all unanimously agreed not to use vanity screens during testing – a move that coincides perfectly with F1’s extended coverage!

As if that wasn’t enough, all F1 TV subscribers will have access to a much richer Live Timing page on the official F1 app this year, with fans able to follow all of the drivers’ lap-by-lap performance live using the fantastic lap segment feature, while also comparing drivers’ lap times against one another.

Live text commentary, in-session clips and full live timing will also be available right here on Formula1.com.

2 Days to go!

[tobinen]

I forgot it started this week. Good news

[Supersam83]

Schedule for Test 1 so far.

[TheDeuce]

Supersam83 said:

Schedule for Test 1 so far.

Found the same as text:

High Speed Track Test Tue 10:30 - 11:15 GMT
Day 1, Session 1 Wed 08:00 - 12:00 GMT
Day 1, Session 2 & Review Show Wed 13:00 - 18:00 GMT
Day 2, Session 1 Thu 08:00 - 12:00 GMT
Day 2, Session 2 & Review Show Thu 13:00 - 18:00 GMT
Day 3, Session 1 Fri 08:00 - 12:00 GMT
Day 3, Session 2 & Review Show Fri 13:00 - 18:00 GMT
High Speed Track Test Tue 12:15 - 13:00 GMT
Day 4, Session 1 Wed 08:00 - 12:00 GMT
Day 4, Session 2 & Review Show Wed 13:00 - 18:00 GMT
Day 5, Session 1 Thu 08:00 - 12:00 GMT
Day 5, Session 2 & Review Show Thu 13:00 - 18:00 GMT
Day 6, Session 1 Fri 08:00 - 12:00 GMT
Day 6, Session 2 & Review Show Fri 13:00 - 18:00 GMT

[Deesee]

Line ups (day one).

[ajprice]

Deesee said:

Line ups (day one).

Kubica in the Alfa, interesting. The other teams all have their regular drivers in the cars, they must be short of ice cream to get Kimi out of bed in time for tomorrow .
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/148302/kubica-to...

[Big Nanas]

Oh god, Sky have Jolyon Palmer in the commentary box for testing this morning.
That’s depressing.

[Blib]

Big Nanas said:

Oh god, Sky have Jolyon Palmer in the commentary box for testing this morning.
That’s depressing.

Why depressing? He seems engaging - albeit, we're only 10 minutes in to the season.

[ajprice]

Vettel isn't feeling well so Leclerc is driving the Ferrari today.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/charles-leclerc-seba...

[TheDeuce]

Talk of Bottas 3.0 already....

Good to see the cars running again

[rdjohn]

Yippee, Williams have turned up on Day 1

[Supersam83]

Class of F1 2020 via F1 twitter:

[patmahe]

Interesting to get a look at all the drivers like that, Perez and Bottas look smallest (the F1 ideal in terms of weight and cramming them into a small space) to me and Kvyat and Latifi look tallest.

McLaren seem to have the most similar sized driver pairing which has to make designing the car a bit easier as you aren't having to think about two vastly different cockpit configurations, one for your tall guy and one for the short one.

Anyway, welcome back F1 we missed you

[Munter]

Supersam83 said:

Class of F1 2020 via F1 twitter:

Ricciardo's purple helmet looks very shiny....

[TheDeuce]

Hmmm... Racing Point already over a tenth faster than the quickest Ferrari day one last year. I wonder how much quicker this seasons crop of cars will prove here by the end of next week? I imagine as an evolutionary year + all of last years improvements, should be quite a bit faster. Maybe tumble a couple more of the V10 lap records this year?

And as I type Bottas goes 3 tenths faster than the Ferrari last year.

[Supersam83]

Just as a reminder to everyone, here is the full list of the fastest times from last years pre season testing just for comparison:

DRIVERS

Sebastian Vettel [Ferrari] 1:16.221 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 534 laps
Lewis Hamilton [Mercedes] 1:16.224 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 638 laps
Charles Leclerc [Ferrari] 1:16.231 (C5, Test 2 Day 3) 463 laps
Valtteri Bottas [Mercedes] 1:16.561 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 552 laps
Nico Hulkenberg [Renault] 1:16.843 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 509 laps
Alexander Albon [Toro Rosso] 1:16.882 (C5, Test 2 Day 3) 489 laps
Daniil Kvyat [Toro Rosso] 1:16.898 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 446 laps
Carlos Sainz [McLaren] 1:16.913 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 473 laps
Romain Grosjean [Haas] 1:17.076 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 407 laps
Lando Norris [McLaren] 1:17.084 (C5, Test 2 Day 3) 400 laps
Pierre Gasly [Red Bull] 1:17.091 (C5, Test 2 Day 3) 439 laps
Daniel Ricciardo [Renault] 1:17.114 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 452 laps
Kimi Raikkonen [Alfa Romeo] 1:17.239 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 497 laps
Lance Stroll [Racing Point] 1:17.556 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 336 laps
Kevin Magnussen [Haas] 1:17.565 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 403 laps
Antonio Giovinazzi [Alfa Romeo] 1:17.639 (C5, Test 2 Day 3) 425 laps
Max Verstappen [Red Bull] 1:17.709 (Test 2 Day 4) 394 laps
Sergio Perez [Racing Point] 1:17.791 (C5, Test 2 Day 4) 289 laps
George Russell [Williams] 1:18.130 (C5, Test 2 Day 3) 299 laps
Robert Kubica [Williams] 1:18.993 (Test 2 Day 4) 268 laps
Pietro Fittipaldi [Haas] 1:19.249 (C4, Test 1 Day 3) 61 laps


TEAMS

Ferrari 1:16.221 (997 laps)
Mercedes 1:16.224 (1,190 laps)
Renault 1:16.843 (961 laps)
Toro Rosso 1:16.882 (935 laps)
McLaren 1:16.913 (873 laps)
Haas 1:17.076 (871 laps)
Red Bull 1:17.091 (833 laps)
Alfa Romeo 1:17.239 (918 laps)
Racing Point 1:17.556 (625 laps)
Williams 1:18.130 (567 laps)


POWER UNITS

FERRARI 1:16.221 (2,790 laps)
MERCEDES 1:16.224 (2,382 laps)
RENAULT 1:16.843 (1,834 laps)
HONDA 1:16.882 (1,768 laps)

[TheDeuce]

Racing point have now undercut their their record last year by 2 tenths. Whatever we might say about testing times being pointless... That sort of speed when they're not even trying very hard is quite impressive.

Anyone wanting free lap time feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5W8T0VVTeYE

Edited by TheDeuce on Wednesday 19th February 10:05

[Kraken]

Who says they're not trying hard?

[TheDeuce]

Kraken said:

Who says they're not trying hard?

First few hours of testing - validate the car ahead of pushing.

Even if they were pushing, they're still faster than last year.

[TheDeuce]

Ferrari just broke the no sheilding rule.