Well it's here, and all teams except Williams have had the cars on track for the first official session. Though a closed session photos are leaking out, and we have some initial times as well as unofficial lap counts.

As it stands now....

Mercedes
 George Russell
 Day Four
 1:16.445**
Red Bull
 Isack Hadjar
 Day One
 1:18.159
Ferrari
 Charles Leclerc
 Day Four
 1:18.223**
McLaren
 Lando Norris
 Day Three
 1:18.307
Racing Bulls
 Arvid Lindblad
 Day Four
 1:18.451**
Alpine
 Franco Colapinto
 Day Three
 1:19.150
Haas
 Oliver Bearman
 Day Three
 1:19.314
Audi
 Nico Hulkenberg
 Day Three
 1:21:010
Cadillac
 Sergio Perez
 Day Four
 1:21.024**
Aston Martin
 Lance Stroll
 Day Four
 1:46.404**

These times really don't tell us a lot yet, as they will continue to tumble at some stage, and of course we can't figure out who is sandbagging and who is running light "glory laps" for the time being. AMR just hit the track today and stopped, so I don't think that is even a representative initial lap.




For now, it looks like Merc is really pounding in a lot of laps.


Team Number of laps
Mercedes 501
Racing Bulls 318
Ferrari 295
Haas 196
Red Bull 187
Alpine 185
McLaren 124
Cadillac 110
Audi 95
Aston Martin 4




As for the new regs, plenty of evidence of quite a bit of harvesting, but for now the cars are looking quicker out of the gate than many of us expected.



Also as far as regs.....

Beam wings are no longer allowed. Apparently Newey had to tell someone to hold his beer........