2019 F1 Season

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There will definitely be a book being written somewhere out there called "The Rise and Fall and slow Death of Williams Grand Prix Engineering/Williams F1" and no doubt the feud between Clair and her two Brothers will be covered in a Chapter or two and the Author will put forward a view on what effect this had on the decline.

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Times and Tyres (C5 Softest to C1 Hardest) :

1 Kvyat Toro Rosso 1m17.704s C5
2 Raikkonen Alfa Romeo 1m17.762s C5
3 Ricciardo Renault 1m18.164s C4
4 Vettel Ferrari 1m18.350s C3
5 Verstappen Red Bull 1m18.787s C3
6 Hulkenberg Renault 1m18.800s C4
7 Grosjean Haas 1m19.189s C3
8 Fittipaldi Haas 1m19.249s C4
9 Sainz McLaren 1m19.354s C3
10 Perez Racing Point 1m20.102s C3
11 Bottas Mercedes 1m20.693s C3
12 Hamilton Mercedes 1m20.818s C3
13 Russell Williams 1m25.625s C3



Laps :

Raikkonen - 138
Kvyat - 137
Vettel - 134
Verstappen - 104
Hamilton - 94
Sainz - 90
Bottas - 88
Ricciardo - 80
Grosjean - 69
Perez - 67
Hulkenberg - 63
Fittipaldi - 48
Russell - 23

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Day 4 on line here.

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That's what we want to read :

"20:31 Ricciardo is on the C4 tyre and leaps to the top of the timing screens with a session-fastest 1m17.913s. Brilliant stuff."

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Even better :

"21:03 Ricciardo sets the the best time of the session on his first flying lap on the C5 tyres, a 1m17.785s."

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I doubt that I can stay up and follow the rest of this so here is the "morning's" efforts :

Times :

1 Albon (Toro Rosso) 1m17.637s C5
2 Ricciardo (Renault) 1m17.785s C5
3 Hamilton (Mercedes) 1m17.977s C4
4 Leclerc (Ferrari) 1m18.046s C3
5 Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) 1m18.511s C3
6 Grosjean (Haas) 1m18.563s C4
7 Gasly (Red Bull) 1m19.495s C3
8 Norris (McLaren) 1m19.543s C3
9 Stroll (Racing Point) 1m20.026s C3
10 Kubica (Williams) 1m21.542s C2



Laps :

Leclerc - 75
Grosjean - 64
Hamilton - 58
Giovinazzi - 56
Gasly - 52
Kubica - 48
Norris - 48
Albon - 44
Stroll - 41
Ricciardo - 34

In between reading I found some pretty useful photos of A300's with everything deployed and this of the A350-1000 showing the tapered inboard flaps to retain the same chord at the wing root as on the A350-900 :

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End of the Day :

Times :

1 Hulkenberg Renault 1m17.393s C5
2 Albon Toro Rosso 1m17.637s C5
3 Ricciardo Renault 1m17.785s C5
4 Bottas Mercedes 1m17.857s C5
5 Hamilton Mercedes 1m17.977s C4
6 Leclerc Ferrari 1m18.046s C3
7 Norris McLaren 1m18.431s C4
8 Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo 1m18.511s C3
9 Grosjean Haas 1m18.563s C3
10 Magnussen Haas 1m18.720s C3
11 Gasly Red Bull 1m18.780s C3
12 Stroll Racing Point 1m19.664s C2
13 Russell Williams 1m20.997s C3
14 Kubica Williams 1m21.542s C2



Laps :

Giovinazzi - 154
Gasly - 146
Leclerc - 138
Albon - 136
Norris - 132
Stroll - 72
Grosjean - 64
Magnussen - 66
Hamilton - 58
Bottas - 57
Kubica - 48
Ricciardo - 34
Hulkenberg - 24
Russell - 17



and Pirelli reckon :

C1 Hardest
C2 0.8s and 1s faster than the C1
C3 0.7s faster than the C2
C4 0.6s faster than the C3
C5 0.6s faster than the C4

Could adjust Times based on this but still don't know what fuel loads they were running at the time.

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Test 2 Day 1 on line here.

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End of Test 2 Day 1 :

Times / Tyre

1 Norris McLaren 1m17.709s C4
2 Gasly Red Bull 1m17.715s C3
3 Stroll Racing Point 1m17.824s C4
4 Vettel Ferrari 1m17.925s C3
5 Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo 1m18.589s C4
6 Albon Toro Rosso 1m18.649s C4
7 Leclerc Ferrari 1m18.651s C3
8 Magnussen Haas 1m18.769s C4
9 Russell Williams 1m19.662s C5
10 Ricciardo Renault 1m20.107s C2
11 Bottas Mercedes 1m20.167s C2
12 Hamilton Mercedes 1m20.332s C2
13 Hulkenberg Renault 1m20.348s C3



Laps :

Gasly - 136
Magnussen - 130
Russell - 119
Albon - 103
Giovinazzi - 99
Hamilton - 83
Stroll - 82
Vettel - 81
Hulkenberg - 80
Norris - 80
Ricciardo - 77
Leclerc - 29
Bottas - 7

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Test 2 Day 2 on line here.