Ferrari looked like being a match for Mercedes over the first two sectors of the Circuit de Catalunya in Friday practice.
“Ferrari seem to be as always gaining something like four-tenths on the straights,” Lewis Hamilton remarked after practice, continuing a familiar theme from earlier in the season.
The relative performance of the Williams cars is a tell-tale sign, as is the fact Mercedes and Ferrari are well over a second off their 2018 benchmark times.
Ferrari clearly have the most to gain – they’re the furthest off last year’s pace than any team.

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