News Details

Successful Test Days for Mercedes as Bottas, Mazepin Set the Pace in Spain

The Mercedes AMG Motorsport team continued to lead the way in 2019 during the two-day post-Spanish Grand Prix test, with Valtteri Bottas topping day one on Tuesday and reserve driver Nikita Mazepin doing likewise on Wednesday’s second day. Andrew Shovlin, the chief race engineer at Mercedes, saw Bottas complete an extensive programme behind the wheel of the W10 on Tuesday at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, with the Finn, twice a winner in 2019 in the opening three races, setting the benchmark time of the test with a 1:15.511. With limited testing opportunities during the season in Formula 1, getting the maximum out of the test was always going to be important for Mercedes, and...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Mazepin delighted with ‘incredible' Mercedes F1...

Nikita Mazepin expressed his happiness over an 'incredible' Formula 1...

Mazepin, from spinner to winner on Day Two

Nikita Mazepin went from spinning out on his Mercedes debut to topping...
4y ago from PlanetF1.com

Bottas & Mazepin to test for Mercedes this week

Mercedes have announced Nikita Mazepin and Valtteri Bottas as their...
4y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Mercedes will debut new driver in Barcelona test

Mercedes will hand the W10 over to a new driver in this week's tests at...
4y ago from GPFans.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Fernandez to ride 2024 Aprilia MotoGP bike from Jerez...

Trackhouse Aprilia rider Raul Fernandez will ride the 2024 spec bike when...

Yamaha to bring brand new MotoGP bike at Jerez test

Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins are set to test ride a brand-new Yamaha M1...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

McLaughlin disputes IndyCar's claim that rules...

Scott McLaughlin was one of the two Team Penske IndyCar drivers that were...
12h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

O’Ward retroactively given St. Pete win after Team...

The NTT IndyCar Series announced on Wednesday that all three Team Penske...
23h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Comments

Hottest News

Audi agree LONG-TERM F1 deal with star driver

Audi have agreed a long-term deal for the first... Read More »
6h ago from GPFans.com

Rosberg reveals financial toll of rivalry with Hamilton

Nico Rosberg recently shed light on an intriguing... Read More »
4h ago from F1i.com

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.