McLaren in continuity, Alpine in shape… What lessons can we learn from the pre-season tests?

Everything is ready for the start of the 2025 season Formula 1. The paddock has indeed completed its winter tests in Bahrain. On site, the teams were therefore entitled to three days of driving divided into two sessions of four hours each with only one car per team on track, with 12 hours of action per driver.

Obviously, everything was scrutinized very closely. The performances of each and every one, the new features on each of the cars, the technical choices made by the teams... Everyone wanted to have a clear idea of ​​the overall situation as the first Grand Prix of the Australian campaign approaches at great speed (March 14-16).

And if we still have difficulty establishing a hierarchy since everyone is hiding their game and no one really knows how the competition is doing, like the best time of the week signed Carlos Sainz on a Williams, a small hierarchy seems to emerge when hearing the first i