Paul Jeffrey
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The final day of Formula One testing is complete, and with 1000's of km completed by the ten teams, you'd have thought we have a clear picture of the running order by now... or maybe not.
Plenty of sandbags would be seen around the Barcelona circuit this week - and it was nothing to do with the rain, as the 2020 Formula One field continue to play an intriguing game of cat and mouse ahead of the first real day of the season in Melbourne, just two short weeks away.
With this year seeing the most condensed period of pre-season running for many a year, just six days of track action would be all the teams are allowed before hitting the Australian Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit at Albert Park early next month. Thanks to the now superb reliability of modern Formula One cars, each team would achieve an astounding number of laps at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya these past two weeks, and at the conclusion of running today, Valtteri Bottas and the new Mercedes W11 would take top honours for the final time - albeit almost a second shy of his overall quickest time from the test.
Here's an interesting graphic produced by F1.com - the fastest times from each team during the test:
Ferrari have been low profile, Racing Point consistently rapid, Renault performed a late surge and the Alfa Romeo keeps popping in table topping runs... but who is genuinely quick, and who has been keeping their powder dry ahead of round one?
Only 2 weeks left to find out...
F1 Test Day 6 Times:
Plenty of sandbags would be seen around the Barcelona circuit this week - and it was nothing to do with the rain, as the 2020 Formula One field continue to play an intriguing game of cat and mouse ahead of the first real day of the season in Melbourne, just two short weeks away.
With this year seeing the most condensed period of pre-season running for many a year, just six days of track action would be all the teams are allowed before hitting the Australian Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit at Albert Park early next month. Thanks to the now superb reliability of modern Formula One cars, each team would achieve an astounding number of laps at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya these past two weeks, and at the conclusion of running today, Valtteri Bottas and the new Mercedes W11 would take top honours for the final time - albeit almost a second shy of his overall quickest time from the test.
Here's an interesting graphic produced by F1.com - the fastest times from each team during the test:
Ferrari have been low profile, Racing Point consistently rapid, Renault performed a late surge and the Alfa Romeo keeps popping in table topping runs... but who is genuinely quick, and who has been keeping their powder dry ahead of round one?
Only 2 weeks left to find out...
F1 Test Day 6 Times:
