7:40 AM ET MONTMELO, Spain — With just two weeks remaining before the first race of the 2019 Formula One season, Lewis Hamilton believes his Mercedes is 0.5s per lap slower than the pace-setting Ferrari. Ferrari finished the first week of testing looking like the most confident team and, so far, all the data suggests
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3:28 AM ET It’s the final day of pre-season testing. Can anyone do something which challenges the paddock consensus that Ferrari is the team to beat? The Italian team had Mercedes rattled in week one — read why its headline times caught the world champion’s attention here. After the opening test we also ranked the
12:40 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain – For the first time in pre-season testing, Ferrari hinted at the true pace of its 2019 car by setting a time within a tenth of a second of the all-time lap record at the Circuit de Catalunya. The lap was set on Pirelli’s softest compound tyre, the C5, and
2:41 PM ET Pierre Gasly has accepted responsibility for the heavy crash which prematurely ended his first test for Red Bull and put the team’s participation in the final day in jeopardy. Gasly, who took the seat vacated by Daniel Ricciardo’s move to Renault, lost control of the rear of the car on the high-speed,
6:56 AM ET MONTMELO, Spain — Sebastian Vettel crashed out of the sixth day of pre-season testing, scuppering Ferrari’s plans to set more headline-grabbing times on Wednesday. Vettel, who was unhurt, went off after encountering what the team said was a mechanical issue in his car on the approach to Turn 3. The German driver
1:55 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain — A random outbreak of the Fernando Alonso Show never seems far away when you’re near McLaren in the Formula One paddock. It only took until the sixth day of this year’s preseason for it to ramp up again at the two-time world champion’s home circuit. At the launch of
12:33 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain — McLaren finished fastest for the second day in a row in the final week of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Catalunya as Ferrari faced its second setback in as many days. Carlos Sainz improved by over half a second on Lando Norris’ best time from Tuesday to set
5:38 AM ET McLaren has confirmed Fernando Alonso will test its 2019 Formula One car at some point this year. Alonso stepped away from a racing role for this season but has remained affiliated with the team, which he will contest his second Indy 500 with in May. There had been speculation Alonso could test
1:54 PM ET MONTMELO, Spain — After his first chance to properly follow a rival on track in testing, Haas’ Kevin Magnussen said the early signs are that the changes made to Formula One cars in 2019 will improve racing. F1 fans have been promised an improvement to the spectacle this season with cars featuring
12:45 PM ET ESPN staff MONTMELO, Spain — McLaren started the second week of Formula One’s pre-season testing with the fastest time, after Lando Norris set a 1:17.709 in the final hour of the afternoon session. The time was 0.4s shy of the best lap from last week’s test and put McLaren at the top