The 2018 pre-season test days are now complete and the next time we see cars out on track it will be for the Australian GP weekend. The pre-season testing gives teams the chance to analyse their car performance and make changes ahead of the first race, and guess what – yes, it also helps YOU with your Fantasy GP team! How nice of them.

So here you are, the important time sheets and data from the winter testing at Barcelona. This is for all the data junkies out there. In overview we have data from 8 days with 2 test sessions at 1 track with 37,148km covered over 7978 laps.

Let’s break that down into some proper numbers we can understand. You can download our spreadsheet here: F1 Testing Data, but key information is displayed below.

• Best Lap Times

  • Test 1 – best time by Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) with 1’19.333
    • Day 1 – best time: Ricciardo – Red Bull
    • Day 2 – best time: Vettel – Ferrari
    • Day 3 – best time: Alonso – McLaren (snow)
    • Day 4 – best time of the session – Hamilton – Mercedes
  • Test 2 – best time by Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) with 1’17.182
    • Day 1 – best time: Vettel – Ferrari
    • Day 2 – best time: Ricciardo – Red Bull
    • Day 3 – best time of the session – Vettel – Ferrari
    • Day 4 – best time: Raikkonen – Ferrari

• Total Laps Completed by Car

  1. Mercedes 1040
  2. Ferrari 929
  3. Toro Rosso 822
  4. Williams 819
  5. Renault 795
  6. Sauber 786
  7. Red Bull 783
  8. Force India 711
  9. Haas 694
  10. McLaren 599

• Total Laps Completed by Driver

  1. Sebastian Vettel 643
  2. Valtteri Bottas 584
  3. Lewis Hamilton 456
  4. Pierre Gasly 452
  5. Carlos Sainz 444
  6. Max Verstappen 419
  7. Marcus Ericsson 411
  8. Kevin Magnussen 380
  9. Charles Leclerc 375
  10. Esteban Ocon 372
  11. Brendon Hartley 370
  12. Daniel Ricciardo 364
  13. Sergey Sirotkin 354
  14. Nico Hülkenberg 351
  15. Lance Stroll 343
  16. Stoffel Vandoorne 336
  17. Sergio Pérez 317
  18. Romain Grosjean 314
  19. Kimi Räikkönen 286
  20. Fernando Alonso 263
  21. Robert Kubica 122
  22. Nikita Mazepin 22

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