Ferrari quickest, Mercedes 'not impeccable', Verstappen 'idealistic' - F1 testing investigation

Ferrari left Barcelona on Friday having demonstrated they had the quickest vehicle more than about fourteen days of pre-season testing.

Lewis Hamilton said it. His Mercedes group said it. Red Bull's Pierre Gasly said it. What's more, the numbers said it, essentially anyway you took a gander at them.

Hamilton may have said that execution in testing ought to be taken "with a spot of salt". Be that as it may, he additionally said that he thought the hole between his Mercedes group and Ferrari was "possibly a large portion of a second, something to that effect".

That sounds a ton, with regards to Mercedes winning the previous five world titles, yet it's surely the manner in which it looked.