MotorMouth
Today Alfa Romeo became the first team to lap quicker with its 2019 car than it did last year.
To put those times in perspective, both teams used the hyper-softs to set their quickest times in last year’s test.
And while Mercedes might have ‘only’ set the eighth-fastest time so far, note the huge difference between their fastest test and race laps at the Circuit de Catalunya last year.
In the first three days of the eight-day test, two teams have already covered more than half the mileage they did last year: McLaren (52%) and Renault (50%).
2019 pre-season lap times compared to last year.
