Testing Day 1: Horner – “We have never had such a good packaging of the engine as now with Honda.”

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Today begins the first test for the Formula 1 grid in their 2019 cars at the Barcelona circuit in Spain.

Highlights for today have already included Kimi Raikkonen going off and needing a tow out of the gravel, the Alfa Romeo livery reveal along with Red Bull’s livery for Australia onwards.

More importantly, however, TJ13 can reveal that Red Bull Honda could have problems. Reports indicate that the garage doors opened this morning, only to close again due to a Honda Power unit issue. Max Verstappen has shown only once on the track thus far.

More on this later, so be sure to check back on TJ13, we will update this page and others when we know more.

UPDATE 10:28am – Red Bull’s Honda V6 stutters and somehow sounds strained… but Max Verstappen has now completed 15 laps, best time of 1: 21.808, 2.671 secs slower than the fastest time set by Vettel.

UPDATE 10:48am – Verstappen’s car ran about 50 Meters before the engine cut earlier, but it seems that things have settled down somewhat.
Verstappen now 2nd fastest behind Vettel with a 1:20.174 after 23 laps.

UPDATE 12:40pm – Williams confirm that due to parts not arriving in time, they will unlikely be able to run their car until Wednesday at the earliest. Renault are running without DRS so their rear wing remains closed today. We hear from the Renault stock that it costs between 0.7 and 0.8 seconds in the lap time.

1. S. Vettel (Ferrari): 1: 18.161 mins (72 laps)
2. S. Perez (Racing Point): 1: 19.944 mins (20)
3. V. Bottas (Mercedes): 1 : 20.127 Min. (69)
4. K. Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo): 1: 20.160 Min. (46)
5. M. Verstappen (Red Bull): 1: 20.174 Min. (52)
6. C. Sainz (McLaren ): 1: 20.430 min. (56)
7. N. Hülkenberg (Renault): 1: 20.980 min. (65)
8. R. Grosjean (Haas): 1: 21.500 min. (18)
9. D. Kvyat ( Toro Rosso): 1: 21,732 min. (35)

 

UPDATE 12:45 – First look at the new, larger, DRS flap in use today in Barcelona

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UPDATE 14:15 – One engine audibly sets itself apart from all others. The Honda V6 growls… Renault delays due to technical hitch trying to send Ricciardo out.

1. S. Vettel (Ferrari): 1: 18.161 mins (104 laps)
2. K. Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo): 1: 19.483 mins (59)
3. M. Verstappen (Red Bull): 1: 19.600 min. (59)
4. S. Perez (Racing Point): 1: 19.944 mins (25)
5. V. Bottas (Mercedes): 1: 20.127 mins. (69)
6. C. Sainz (McLaren ): 1: 20.430 min. (58)
7. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 1: 20.521 mins (16)
8. N. Hülkenberg (Renault): 1: 20.980 mins (65)
9th R. Grosjean (Haas ): 1: 21.500 min. (18)
10. D. Kvyat (Toro Rosso): 1: 21.732 min. (35)
11. Daniel Ricciardo (Renault): 1: 21.769 min. (5)

 

UPDATE 15:00 – Honda V6 seems to be running well. With 324 km / h Kvyat holds the top spot in the speed trap.

1. S. Vettel (Ferrari): 1: 18.161 Min. (122 laps)
2. K. Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo): 1: 19.483 Min. (74)
3. M. Verstappen (Red Bull): 1: 19.600 mins. (79)
4. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso): 1: 19.901 mins. (50)
5. S. Perez (Racing Point): 1: 19.944 mins. (30)
6. R. Grosjean (Haas ): 1: 20.094 Min. (28)
7. V. Bottas (Mercedes): 1: 20.127 Min. (69)
8. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 1: 20.135 Min. (31)
9. C. Sainz (McLaren ): 1: 20.430 min. (61)
10. N. Hülkenberg (Renault): 1: 20.980 mins (65)
11. Daniel Ricciardo (Renault): 1: 21.253 mins (17)

 

 

UPDATE 16:16 – Red Bull team boss Christian Horner praises new engine partner Honda and simultaneously taunts former partner Renault: “We have never had such a good packaging of the engine as now with Honda.”

Vettel fastest over all, dominating 2nd & 3rd sectors, Honda’s V6 fastest 1st sector with Kyvatt.

1. S. Vettel (Ferrari): 1: 18.161 mins (149 laps)
2. Romain Grosjean: 1: 19.320 mins (50)
3. K. Räikkönen (Alfa Romeo): 1: 19.462 min. (95)
4. M. Verstappen (Red Bull): 1: 19.600 min. (101)
5. Daniil Kvyat (Toro Rosso): 1: 19.635 min. (58)
6. S. Perez (Racing Point): 1: 19,944 mins (30)
7. V. Bottas (Mercedes): 1: 20.127 mins (69)
8. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes): 1: 20.135 mins (58)
9. C. Sainz (McLaren): 1: 20.430 min. (102)
10. N. Hülkenberg (Renault): 1: 20.980 min. (65)
11. Daniel Ricciardo (Renault): 1: 20.983 min. (44)

 

 

 

LIVE – Video feed from testing

 

 

https://twitter.com/PitLane_F1/status/1097512141605740552

 

 

https://twitter.com/Richard_D80/status/1097500844822593536

 

7 responses to “Testing Day 1: Horner – “We have never had such a good packaging of the engine as now with Honda.””

  1. so the talking poing of red bulls vid is copyright claimed yet theres a vid from every other team here #fanboys

    • RB did have an issue first thing… which has appeared to have been rectified.

      Subsequent articles will come covering the test

        • there is definitely an underlining hitch as the team have to wheel the car into the garage to get it started each time… also the headline changes each time theres a substantial update on the article

  3. Williams not likely to be testing tomorrow either. One has to question whether the leadership there is untenable.

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