{"id":82789,"date":"2019-03-04T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/03\/04\/only-one-conclusion-to-draw-from-f1-2019-testing-advantage-ferrari-giles-richards\/"},"modified":"2019-03-04T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:33:31","slug":"only-one-conclusion-to-draw-from-f1-2019-testing-advantage-ferrari-giles-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=82789","title":{"rendered":"Only one conclusion to draw from F1 2019 testing: advantage Ferrari | Giles Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari lead the field, Red Bull-Honda are showing promise and the midfield scrap looks set to be even more hotly contestedThat Ferrari have a good, potentially great, car this year was clear by the end of the first day of testing when Sebastian Vettel was positively purring at how the SF90 had performed. By the end of day eight, his optimism had been entirely justified and they must be considered favourites going into the first race in Melbourne on 17 March. Definitive judgments from testing are dangerous but the Scuderia\u2019s form is impossible to ignore. Vettel set the fastest lap, with a time of 1min 16.221sec. They completed 997 laps in total, second only to Mercedes, while their engines look rock solid, with 2,790 laps (8,069 miles) from across the grid \u2013 the highest of any power unit. The car looks supremely well balanced, has great grip, is planted out of the corners and handles with ease. Crucially, where it really counts in comparable race simulations \u2013 where Mercedes had the edge this time last year \u2013 Ferrari were quicker. They are playing it down of course, but the spring in Vettel\u2019s step is justified. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/blog\/2019\/mar\/04\/f1-2019-testing-advantage-ferrari-mercedes-red-bull-honda\" target=\"_blank\">Only one conclusion to draw from F1 2019 testing: advantage Ferrari | Giles Richards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferrari lead the field, Red Bull-Honda are showing promise and the midfield scrap looks set to be even more hotly contestedThat Ferrari have a good, potentially great, car this year was clear by the end of the first day of testing when Sebastian Vettel was positively purring at how the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}