KEY Day 1 F1 TESTING STATS 🏎📊

- Driver laps: OCO most (88), STR least (42);
- Team laps: RacingBulls most (154), Aston least (88);
- Push lap: NOR/McL fastest (1:30.430, Mediums), HUL/Sauber slowest (+1.739s, Hards);
- Top Speed in best push lap: Sauber highest (319kmh), Aston lowest (309km/h);
- Perc. of time at full throttle in best push lap: RBR highest (63.5%), lowest Ferrari (59.3%).

Already 'just' 1.265s away from the best 2024 lap (LEC Q2)!

Haas didn't use DRS in their fastest lap as they didn't perform any proper push-laps!

LEC set his best time very early in the morning ➡️Less track grip ➡️Could not stay full-throttle as much as others.

The RB21 looks surprisingly similar to the RB20.

RACE SIMULATIONS - DAY 2

🟠NOR was quickest in all 3 stints, and his last one (on C2) was MONSTROUS!

🔴LEC and 🔵ANT were over 0.5s/lap slower over 54 laps. NOR's advantage in the last stint was above 1s/lap!

NOR was 2.128s/lap quicker than in his 2024 race! Different track conditions, sure, but expect the 2025 cars to have a much quicker pace than in 2024.

Looking at the telemetries of several laps, no car was gaining substantially over the others: power modes seem similar across the 3 teams.

Last year's race pace in Bahrain, for comparison.

How to interpret this:

- McLaren will be very quick in 2025: a 1:34.302 average pace over a race distance is mind-blowing! (even taking the track conditions into account).

- We cannot know Ferrari's and Mercedes' margins: they could have had ~10kg more fuel, or their drivers could have managed the pace more. They could be closer or even matched with them for what we know.

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Williams and Alpine were quicker in testing than in 2024 quali! 🔥

'You can sandbag to look slower, but you cannot look quicker than you are!'

They made a significant performance step vs one year ago, but their grid position will depend on the other teams.💡

Best 2024 Quali (top) and 2025 Test (Bottom) laptime per team.

RACE SIMULATION - DAY 3

🔵RUS had a virtual 16.5s gap to 🟠PIA at the end of the 50 laps.

He had much higher degradation (and worse pace) on Softs.❌

Yet, he almost matched PIA in the last 2 stints.✅

Mercedes gap to McL:
2024 Race: 0.020s/lap
DAY 2: +0.571
DAY 3: +0.331

This can be read both ways:
- RUS's degradation on the soft was severe, which is never a product of sandbagging (bad for Mercedes).
- However, if they can solve that, he would become very close to PIA over a race distance (good for Mercedes).

Looking at the telemetry of several laps, the engine modes used (for both ICE and ERS deployment) were very similar for the two teams in all 3 stints, so that's not a factor.

Fuel loads could be different but not to a huge extent based on the performance on the straights and high-speed corners.

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