The full driver line-up for the final test ahead of the 2019 F1 season has been confirmed.
With just four days of running left before the first race weekend of the new championship, all 10 teams will use only their race drivers for this week’s test at the Circuit de Catalunya which begins tomorrow.World champion Lewis Hamilton will be back at the wheel of his Mercedes from tomorrow morning before handing over to his team mate in the afternoon. The pair will share the W10 on each day of the test as they did last week.
Renault will also continue split their running between each driver on both drivers. Ferrari will adopt the same approach, having used one driver per day during the first test.
Williams is looking to get a full four days of running in with its FW42 which arrived late to testing last week. It has not scheduled any test time for Nicholas Latifi, who was due to drive the team’s new car last week but missed his planned runs due to the late completion of the team’s new car.
Team | Tuesday 26th Feb | Wednesday 27th Feb | Thursday 28th Feb | Friday 1st Mar |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mercedes | Lewis Hamilton / Valtteri Bottas | Valtteri Bottas / Lewis Hamilton | Lewis Hamilton / Valtteri Bottas | Valtteri Bottas / Lewis Hamilton |
Ferrari | Charles Leclerc / Sebastian Vettel | Sebastian Vettel / Charles Leclerc | Charles Leclerc / Sebastian Vettel | Sebastian Vettel / Charles Leclerc |
Red Bull | Pierre Gasly | Max Verstappen | Pierre Gasly | Max Verstappen |
Renault | Nico Hulkenberg / Daniel Ricciardo | Daniel Ricciardo / Nico Hulkenberg | NicoHulkenberg / Daniel Ricciardo | Daniel Ricciardo / Nico Hulkenberg |
Haas | Kevin Magnussen | Romain Grosjean | Kevin Magnussen / Romain Grosjean | Romain Grosjean / Kevin Magnussen |
McLaren | Lando Norris | Carlos Sainz Jnr | Lando Norris | Carlos Sainz Jnr |
Racing Point | Lance Stroll | Sergio Perez | Lance Stroll | Sergio Perez |
Alfa Romeo | Antonio Giovinazzi | Kimi Raikkonen | Antonio Giovinazzi | Kimi Raikkonen |
Toro Rosso | Alexander Albon | Daniil Kvyat | Alexander Albon | Daniil Kvyat |
Williams | George Russell | Robert Kubica | Geroge Russell | Robert Kubica |
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stefano (@alfa145)
25th February 2019, 17:46
So both Russel and Kubica have a red helmet? I know there’s the number to tell drivers apart, but still…
ColdFly (@)
25th February 2019, 23:55
Yeah, it’s called a calendar ;)
Rick D. (@partsguy20)
25th February 2019, 18:08
Poor Kubica has hardly gotten to drive the car at all. Hopefully by Wednesday everything is sorted so he can finally get some serious seat time.
Interesting that Ferrari is splitting duty between their drivers each day like Merc and Renault have done. They didn’t do that last week, did they? Or did I just miss it?
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th February 2019, 21:27
@partsguy20 Yeah that’s a change for Ferrari. Given the mileages they’ve been doing it would surely ease the strain on the drivers to have them split the load each day.
Stephen Crowsen (@drycrust)
25th February 2019, 23:45
I think the teams should split the driving between the two drivers each day rather than expect one to do a whole day. Fatigue increases the risk of making an error while driving.
Coanda (@ming-mong)
26th February 2019, 3:34
If you can keep your focus for a double or triple stint then your golden come race day. They also take breaks & eat food etc.. In boxing you dont train for 12 x 3 minute rounds. Your train for 15 x 4 minute rounds.
DB-C90 (@dbradock)
26th February 2019, 3:07
Given that they seem to be covering a couple of race distances per day and reliability seems to be a non issue for most teams, it seems logical to split driving duties.
Phylyp (@phylyp)
25th February 2019, 18:16
@partsguy20 – you’re right re. Ferrari – they had a driver running an entire day last week, so this week’s daily split duty is new for them.
Heiko voss
26th February 2019, 2:39
if you have two cars at the track that makes more sense IMO. concentration certainly doesn’t get better after 100 laps in the car – fatigue would make accurate feedback trickier also. Unless you only have one chassis/full set of new parts ready and would have to change setup/do tons of work to the cars during lunch it makes perfect sense to me. Don’t really know why else they would NOT do that.
Coanda (@ming-mong)
26th February 2019, 3:26
Will Sky F1 also cover this weeks action?
snailspaceslim (@snailspaceslim)
26th February 2019, 7:53
It seems not.
Coanda (@ming-mong)
26th February 2019, 8:26
bummer…