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INSIGHT: Preparing for a battle of increments

With Formula 1’s three days of pre-season testing about to begin, all eyes will be on the timesheets to see who has gained and lost out. But headline times are a notoriously fickle indicator of form, and you need to look more closely to get a more representative view of who is hot and who is not, which may well be blown out of the water come the first race anyway. There are many measures of performance, but the most straightforward one is the least relevant. Outright lap time will allow us to compare the pace in testing to last November’s Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, albeit with the complication of varying fuel loads and programs, but that in itself will tell us very little. In...
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