F1 Debrief: All you need to know from Test Day 1

Good morning and welcome to our daily Motorsport F1 Debrief from testing – your quick wrap-up of all the important stories that have taken place in the last 24 hours.

Jonathan Noble Feb 27, 2018, 5:56 AM

Upd: Feb 27, 2018, 9:32 PM

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All eyes of course were on Barcelona where F1’s pre-season testing began in earnest and we got the first glimpse of 2018 machinery running together at once – as well as some pretty interesting tech insights.

We may have been bereft of the huge drama like Honda’s failure of 12 months ago that marked the beginning of the end with McLaren, but there was still plenty to get our teeth into – as the Halo, the weather and a Fernando Alonso spin grabbed our attention.

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Author Jonathan Noble

Jonathan Noble is Motorsport.com’s Formula 1 editor. Having graduated from University of Sussex Jonathan worked for sports news agency Collings Sports reporting on F1, F3, touring cars and other sports, with articles appearing in The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, Autosport and other publications. In 1999 he moved to Haymarket Publishing to become a senior editor at Autosport Special Projects, and one year later he became Autosport’s grand prix editor. In 2015 he moved to Motorsport Network, becoming the F1 editor for Motorsport.com. He is also a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers, and sits on the FIA Media Council.

Jonathan has won multiple awards for journalism - in 1991 he was the winner of the Guild of Motoring Writers’ Sir William Lyons’ Award for young journalists, in 2010 he was awarded the Outstanding Individual accolade for consumer journalism in the Haymarket wards, in 2011 he won Haymarket’s Scoop of the Year, and in 2018 he was awarded a prestigious Medaglia d’Oro at the Lorenzo Bandini Awards for his contribution to F1 journalism.