How the 2019 rule changes have made things harder for Mercedes 

Niki will give an interview pre-Australia or post-thursday next week, and he'll spill the beans much more than Toto ever would. If Niki says Merc are slow, they're slow.

Reading too much into testing, I see

There is absolute no way of knowing from testing how each team will perform when it comes to Australia.

So many people in the comment section are engineers and work in Formula 1 teams, it's crazy.. Never thought I would see so many! These guys are just recapping what they're seeing at testing, stop being so salty. They simply are breaking down what is happening for your entertainment. People are so quick to hate.. I find it interesting hearing differentiating opinions to my own, look forward to Melbourne.

Right. Last year everyone also thought Ferrari were half a second in front of Merc based on testing times. Came Q3 Melbourne, Hamilton went six tenth up on the Ferraris.

Gary, sit in the center and lay back. it seems it will be a more comfortable position, you'll breath easier and your right arm will be thankful for it.

They say Daniel was brought into Renault to help make them a top team. Though I love Daniel, and do not doubt his value to the team, I wouldn't under estimate Hulkenburg. The guy is top tier talent and it would not surprise me if he outscores Daniel this year. Hulk is one of the most underrated drivers in the modern era. The guy could easily win a championship if given the car to do so.

Get yourself a girl that looks at you like Jack looks at Gary

The whole Gary Anderson thing is genius. What a great addition to the group!!!

I can’t wait to see if Mercedes is just sandbagging super hard or if they’ve realized they are pretty far off and show up in Melbourne with an almost entirely new car.

Bring back JBL! We need more awkwardness

Mercedes are well-known for always, always keeping performance up their sleeves. Frankly, that formula has lulled the other teams into believing that they have an advantage that evaporates as the season unfolds. As an aero specialist, Mercedes have always been superb at getting the set-up right, from race one. They have suffered with reliability, but resolved that problem, last season. They also suffered from disruption in the wake of other cars, leaning heavily on DRS and raw power to overtake. Simplifying the airflow, on all cars helps Mercedes. Betting against Mercedes having more power, without needing the 5 KG of extra fuel is a fool’s errand. Just as foolish as believing that Ferrari have leap-frogged Mercedes in spite of nearly continuous management changes. I expect we haven’t seen “party mode” yet, nor have we seen the final rake configuration. Running a higher rake, during testing, reduces ground-effect, reducing downforce and grip. Lower temperatures in Spain will also have worked against Mercedes aero, and their use of hard tyres almost throughout this week. Mercedes are masters at playing with the other teams’ strategists. With their CFD and wind-tunnel resources, they are nowhere near optimized. What we know is that they had more time, more people and some strengths no one could match long before they had 2018 in their pockets. Ferrari seem compelled to show their hand much too early, year after year. Honestly their best move was to bring in Leclerc. If he’s one tenth down on Vettel, he has proven that he will always get a little more out of his car, when it’s needed. Vettel is simply too accident prone, when under pressure. He fell to pieces in the second half of 2018, so I reckon the greatest threats to Hamilton are Leclerc, an improved Botha’s, Verstappen if Honda deliver, and Raikkonen, who posted some impressive times this week. However, I think Hamilton and Wolff have margins we won’t team until Australia.

last year everyone was talking about how weak Ferrari appeared in testing and how Red Bull would be the second force... Well that didn't turn out the be so, which is why I put zero weight on the speculations about Mercedes supposed "weakness" this year.

9 teams are running a high rake car, and one team isn't, and that team is Mercedes. So similar to the last 5 years of Mercedes then? And as we all know, those cars were utter dogs.

The bloke on the right wore that same outfit all 4 days

Great analysis from Gary. We still don’t know for sure as it’s only testing, but this seems like the best assessment I’ve heard.

Awesome Ive been looking forward to these videos every day! Do a 30 min session discussion! :)

Yes, lets look into testing... We cannot take any conclusions but we will anyway. Autosport 2k19

Great technical analysis

What is the name of the song in the end of the video and where to get it?

11:55 That drone footage... Need that in the races ASAP.

They have just started with the conclusion that wanted to get views and then tried to justify it. Pissed me off when people read this much into testing

Nice analysis. 🙂

love the internet experts in the comments. :eyeroll: Glenn + team, can you guys please do a team by team rundown of the first test and get Gary's (and others) opinions on each team's chances and areas of improvement? I feel this year you've upped the quality of these videos, I've been loving your coverage of the testing so far! Cheers! Just a pity I don't see your magazines on the newsstands in Australia (although TBH, I don't really browse newsstands except at the airport).

Loving the new Drum & Base inspired closing tune, get it on itunes, I'd buy it!

That couch is begging Gary Anderson for mercy!

McLaren's long run pace improving everyday👍👍

Really like Gary's take on F1 related things. Clicked the like button as soon as I found that he was in this video.

In every video this week Gary has said something extremely thoughtful and enlightening about car technicalities. Learned lots keep him around

Congratulations to the team at Autosport for posting excellent summaries of proceedings with insightful analysis all be it with limitations. Looking forward to being in the crowd at Melbourne to witness the real test of performance on Saturday.

The "green lights for rookies" is a great idea. Basically a warning for all the other drivers - STAY ALERT AROUND HIM! 😂

It would be typical Mercedes if they come to next testing or even wait until Melbourne to somehow turn out a lap time half a second faster than everyone else.

I think Jack in the middle might be a little too comfortable in that couch 05:53

Happy 70th birthday Niki and get well soon...

While testing is testing and we shouldn't read too much into it, etc, etc it is interesting to compare teams fastest 2019 testing laps with their best qualifying time from the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix. Two things (obviously there are other factors to) to note when doing this is that it is much warmer for the GP itself and teams do not run the C5 (softest) tire at the actual GP. Pirelli have said the C5 might not be as advantageous as one might expect because it is not suited to Catalunya and so it is difficult to hook up for a complete lap. Hulkenberg's fastest lap on day 4 is over 1.5sec faster than his 2018 quali time and over 0.5sec faster than Sainz's lap was. Hulkenberg's time would have qualified him 7th in last years GP, behind the top 3 teams and this is only the first test. Daniel Riccardo's best time was only 0.5 secs slower than his 2018 quali in the RB14. Likewise Alfa and Torro Rosso's fastest times are more than 1.5 sec faster than their best 2018 quali times. These teams, along with Haas and maybe Mclaren, are probably the ones who have revealed their hands the most in the first test. We obviously don't know how the teams stack up against each other yet, but I think a conclusion that can be safely drawn is that the new aero regs have not made the cars 1.5 seconds slower than 2018.

Anybody knows the name of the tune/song at the end?

Glorious bed head hair 👌

The explanation about Mercedes running "more wing" at the front to compensate the lack of ground effect with its low rake is plain silly. They point out that Ferrari has a higher rake and therefore doesn't need as much angle on the front wing, yet conveniently ignores the team that runs the most rake aka RBR which has a similar front wing design as Mercedes! More rake doesn't automatically means higher downforce. As other videos have pointed out it is a concept that has its benefits and negatives. Mercedes have simply went for the low rake concept and have been successful, yet people still doubt its effectiveness!

Can you see the differnce on track between the C1.C2 and the C4.C5 tyres or is it something you have to read to know there is a differnce

why they use c tyre instead of soft super or ultra? its really make me confused

Funny thing is... Mark Hughes at MotorSportMagazine.com was saying that due to the loss of outwash front wings, a low rake car would be at an advantage and Mercedes is the only team who's stuck to their guns. If you look at the front wings' designs, Mercedes have designed their wing to generate maximum downforce. They're not muppets at Brackley, they must've seen something and stuck to their morals. I reckon they have potential in the car, if they sort out their balance issues, we'll start to see that performance more consistently.

Are the cars projected to be faster or slower than 2018 this year? And by how much?

Gary gives some amazing insight! Great technical detail!

Would like to know Gary Anderson's analysis on Alfa Romeo.... Coz' after Kimi joined them they are the new global cult of F1.

Should rename this to *HOW TO GIVE EXCUSES WHEN WE LOST TO ALFA ROMEO*

Honestly it’s like you don’t do this for a living! Testing is for testing. No one wants to show their hand, they can use the aero results they have to create more precise simulations so we won’t see anyone’s true pace until quali at Australia. You’re reading too much into it for the sake of it. Comparing the lap times to previous results will achieve nothing because all of the regulations are different, no one except the teams have number in the terms of how they compare to the previous results. The times we are seeing mean nothing. All we do know is that pretty much all the teams can go quicker than they already are, and if they can’t then they’re in trouble!

We heard all this the last 2 years about how good the red donkey looks.

Nobody mentions the differences in times with last year’s cars ? They were supposed to be 1.5 sec slower, but the best testing time is only a few tenth faster than the Renault’s time This year’s cars are maybe even with last year, or probably even quicker on some tracks

Talking about Torro Rosso, saying it has maybe not as much down force. Is there not a difference in the top teams and midfield teams in how they go about designing the car? The top teams are planning to spend a lot time in front without following a car in front of them. Would the less downforce help fighting and following other cars in the middle of the pack???

Sandbagging

What are those weird bumps on the Mercedes body work towards the rear end

If this trend continue it is more interesting and inspiring to watch F1 race that there are more cars competing for the podium /title unlike in the past few years that there are only 2-3 teams competing and sometimes every race it looks like a parade to me. I don't like a very dominant team. 2019 is exciting.

Autosport must have a really strong lounge.

Merc put on their Instagram story the second day of testing I think, saying that all of their times during testing are not going to be representative of their performance and that those times would come around during Australia quali. Testing is testing, I would think that not only Merc but all of the teams are not pushing the cars to their limits.

I didn't look at testing this year - thought I'd put it off after the UK Sky paywall made the whole thing less engaging. That's one reason. Also thought it would be interesting to see what turned up at Melbourne. With the video's title, I thought maybe Mercedes would get a podium in Australia, maybe less, perhaps a win. No, they won comfortably. Hopefully the rest of the season is tighter.

Toro Rosso got the most developed car this year let's go

We will find out what car is the quickest after Melbourne

Has everyone else just completely missed or forgotten about the lap Bottas put in at a 1:18.2~ on C2's? Half the laps we've seen have been to a time by Mercedes and Ferrari imo, that lap though looks like the closest thing to a lap in anger and even then it won't be 'party mode'

The new tires gonna benefits Mercedes, Pirelli stated that they would do the same shaving for the tires they did for the 3 special races last year..

I know testing is testing and we shouldnt read too much in to it, but as a merc fan Im actually getting a bit worried. Ferrari has looked very good and merc a bit shaky. Im hoping they get everything going

This Gary guy is good.

*Mercedes are playing mind games. On Ferrari Mercedes are very smart at misleading it's called mind games. Last year Ferrari was fast at testing. I wouldn't worry about that*

I don't care how much Gary Anderson knows, that dude needs an education on personal space.

Intervier is rocking sonic the hedgehog haircut.

I’d love to see some more coverage of each of the teams rather than just focusing on the top three

I just hope every car has the same performance to finally see who's the better driver......

What happened to Scott? Did he run out of wrinkled t-shirts? It's funny you had three mic's until today, and he's not there. Ran off with the third mic to sell it for a shirt I hope?

Good 👍👍

First 💪🏽 Big Gaz aint changed his jumper all week

I hope that I witness a time when a racing formula challenges manufacturers to build the fastest car they can and the only limiting factor is the tracks they run.

It’ll just make their victory even sweeter at the end of the season...

I have noticed that both Mercedes drivers has had consistenly similar lap times through the week. They have also increased day by day. I think they run their programs and we will see their true performance come australia.

The green lights are about wether or not he has got a super license. He has everything together but the paperwork hasn't been completed. So it's not about his experience, just paperwork for the super license.

This old guy knows his shit. I like it.

And this is How you spam videos about pre season

Coming back here after couple years they make the rules harder for other teams to catch up now 😂😂🤣🤣

With out fuel loads no one knows where anyone is.

Renault did a long race run with the Hulk on day two I think it was. Dunno what they're on about.

Hamilton(c4) and leclerc(c3) virtually did the same lap. But the fuel modes are different and arguably even the program and engine modes are different. It's just the first test. That said. The mood at the Mercedes camp is not the same as last year. They're not as confident as they want to be, but are pretty confident none the less. Which means they have problems for sure but whether that translates to them being slower than Ferrari is something no one can predict. Hamilton on his lap and short runs weren't as smooth as Ferrari. There were some oversteers and didn't seem as stable as Ferrari. This to me says the balance isn't there and that's probably why Mercedes aren't as confident as they want to be although they're still very confident. I think even the teams don't know and that's why I think Mercedes did their performance run so that they know where they stand and get an idea of what needs to be done. It's just the first test. All we can say is Ferrari look strong and so do Mercedes. Ferrari are the happier team.

What if Williams is the playing the ultimate sandbag? LOL The skip testing and then grab pole in Australia gawd that would be funny

GA is really hard on Mercedes. Today showed him to be partially wrong versus yesterday. Next week hopefully he'll have to eat some more crow..

I want to hear the predictions, don't be shy

Someone please work on the audio from the microphone.. it is hard to listen to whats being said. Thanks!

So Renault set a faster time in testing than they did last year in Q3 by a reasonable amount, with new regulations that are said to make cars slower? If Renault can improve on last years time, Mercedes in theory would have 2 seconds to gain, if not, it would mean Renault significantly gained on them this year, unless i'm missing something, but I imagine a Q3 time would be their best effort.

Did the RB6 really have a high rake on the car? I thought it was RB7 that was the first RB car to start having a higher rake

The cars won't even be remotely the same come Australia. So wtf everyone is gassing about SF and MB being slow is beyond me

No one thought that the extra structure red bull put on there car cos the Honda is shake’n it to bits was worth mentioning?!!!

little did they knew

Ok these experts don't know anything. They don't know anything about fuel loads or what engine settings the teams are using. I really would love to know when testing became like this?

Was there a cake on that table with the empty dish ?

I thought Gary Anderson Plays Darts 🧐

They haven't

Mclaren also dont have low rake?

Merc almost certainly, didn't have the engine at a high mode imao.

Nah fam, I'm not a fan of Mercedes, but they finna be champions again this year. Dont read it to much into pre season testing.

Gary Anderson voice is like 60% mouth and respiration sounds and 40% words. Don't listen it with headphones it sounds like he's right next to your ears

Unless Renault have done something special this season.. perhaps you need to take a closer look at them (renault).

They got Kvyat back because he ran the Ferrari simulator. Simple as that. He'll be out when they finish farming that knowledge.

06:34 Gary gives the look of " what a load of horseshite"

Ferrari looks damn more stronger and have got huge data for feedback already through those test runs...and they have said that they haven't reached their best speed yet !..but I think both merc and Ferrari are sandbagging..also I think Redbull will be a top contender this year alongwith these 2...