If he join full season it's a good bet that he can win it all IMHO. Special guy like his level can race just about anything competitively, except maybe rallying and bikes. However it seems it's tougher for him to adapt to WEC cars than CART if we compare the 2 races he had entered in both those series.

Horrible Halo!

Well to be honest, F1 has been really testing me for several years now with those ugly car designs. Not sure how long I will still follow, but if nothing else to watch on weekends then might as well still watch F1 I suppose.

Would be fantastic if suddenly TR can challenge for podiums this year with Honda!

Ugly dick noses and now also ugly cockpit. Those with black colored halo seems slightly better though as it doesn't look as obvious.

Yeah last year only Merc & TR cars looked good coz they use more conventional nose design. Now TR also already using the 'dick' style nose so only merc still looks ok. Some more now got the weird halo, sigh...

Hahaha well it will be amusing to see if really TR can beat McLaren but honestly for the good of the whole F1 we need the best drivers to be at the sharp end fighting for wins and podiums. Therefore I do really want McLaren to be back to winning ways to enable Alonso to properly fight with Ham & Seb coz those 3 are the true best ahead of the rest. Having Alonso struggling in the last few years is painful to see (even though I'm not a true fan of him) and doesn't do any good whatsoever for F1 IMHO, so if again they got beaten up badly again even by TR then it's F1 loss. So it will be good of TR can be more competitive but I still want McLaren to be back challenging Merc/Ferrari/RB and winning some races.

Actually Mercs chassis is also equally good or at least very close to the best (which ever chassis that is). People just think about the engine coz it seems the most stand out and underestimate their chassis side but the Mercs is not too shabby either in most tracks that requires handling, especially mid-high speed sweepers. So if Mercs can do with a better looking nose design than why the others cannot? I think maybe Mercs even knows something different that the other teams might not quite get yet, hence they still maintain their different nose design than the rest.

Yeah maybe Alonso is not a good team player after all but his talent behind the wheel is unquestionable and therefore it's F1 loss that he's struggling so much in a shitty car while he still is one of the best on the grid.

I honestly don't see why so much hype in Kubica, to me he's one of those too overrated ones. He barely just beat Nick Heidfield when he was in 100% condition, so he might be a decent one but he's no Alonso/Ham/Seb, not even Kimi's level when Kimi was at his best or Dani Ric or Max.

Yup exactly! However whenever I read about people comments in the news about Kubica, they all rate him like another super driver or something which I cannot understand from where! His best was 2008 when he won once and finished 4th but that time Heidfeld also was doing pretty good and was only 2 places behind in 6th, so probably the car was decent.

Whoaa so confident leh! I will wait until at least the first race or maybe even more before making any predictions.

If based on look of the cars, I'd have picked TR as the fastest car followed by Mercs.

For me what I'm most interested to see is how McLaren Renault will perform.

Yeah seems like Honda has gotten a lot better at least reliability wise. Hopefully stays true throughout.

Yeah again McLaren has the most issues and the least mileage during this testing round. The only upside seems to be that they're a bit faster but still firmly in the mid pack.

Mercs looks to have the best long run pace and reliability. Ferrari looks to match in qualifying pace but not yet in long run. RB is further behind.

Final combined test times
1. Sebastian Vettel GER Scuderia Ferrari 1:17.182 (H) T2D3
2. Kimi Raikkonen FIN Scuderia Ferrari + 0.039s (H) T2D4
3. Fernando Alonso ESP McLaren F1 Team + 0.602s (H) T2D4
4. Daniel Ricciardo AUS Aston Martin Red Bull Racing + 0.865s (H) T2D2
5. Carlos Sainz Jr. ESP Renault Sport Formula One Team + 0.910s (H) T2D4
6. Kevin Magnussen DEN Haas F1 Team + 1.178s (SS) T2D3
7. Pierre Gasly FRA Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda + 1.181s (H) T2D3
8. Lewis Hamilton GBR Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport + 1.218s (US) T2D2
9. Romain Grosjean FRA Haas F1 Team + 1.230s (US) T2D4
10. Valtteri Bottas FIN Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport + 1.378s (US) T2D2
11. Nico Hulkenberg GER Renault Sport Formula One Team + 1.493s (H) T2D3
12. Stoffel Vandoorne BEL McLaren F1 Team + 1.673s (H) T2D3
13. Brendon Hartley NZL Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda + 1.767s (H) T2D4
14. Esteban Ocon FRA Sahara Force India F1 Team + 1.785s (H) T2D4
15. Charles Leclerc MON Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team + 1.936s (H) T2D4
16. Sergey Sirotkin RUS Williams Martini Racing + 2.007s (S) T2D4
17. Marcus Ericsson SWE Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team + 2.062s (H) T2D3
18. Robert Kubica POL Williams Martini Racing + 2.447s (SS) T2D3
19. Sergio Perez MEX Sahara Force India F1 Team + 2.452s (H) T2D3
20. Max Verstappen NED Aston Martin Red Bull Racing + 2.660s (S) T2D3
21. Lance Stroll CAN Williams Martini Racing + 2.782s (S) T2D4
22. Nikita Mazepin RUS Sahara Force India F1 Team + 8.446s (M) T1D1

Yeah Williams is apparently struggling and FI doesn't look as good as last year. Renault & Haas seem the best out of the midfield with TR pretty decent too. Haas with Kevin times using just the SS tire looks pretty promising.

Ferrari also achieved their best times after using hyper softs on qualifying simulation runs. Analysts said Merc has the best long run pace as shown by Bottas race simulation laps where his fastest laps were faster than Ferrari and the rest by over 1 secs! Merc did not even bother to bring the hyper softs for this test.

Well being able to clock seemingly fast laps may show that the car has potential. I suppose still need to look at the gap difference between a team doing a glory run for ultimate pace vs those using lesser tires. If the gap is substantial enough then you can feel more positive but if the gap is less than the theoretical calculation or not so big despite using the much superior tires then it can actually be a let down. So it can work both ways IMHO.

Analysts estimation the pecking order for the top 3 is still the same: Mercs>Ferrari>RB.

I actually didn't like the Schumy era. When still got Hakkinen challenging was still ok but after that was bad. Then only became good again after Alonso won. RB dominated era actually not as bad as Schumy era in terms of competition, coz at least got Alonso and Hamilton stealing a few wins here & there. To me Schumy era was the worse, coz full of cheating and controversy.