Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insists his team must remain dis♈ciplined and not focus on the eye-catching pace set by Formula 1 rivals Ferrari on the opening ওday of pre-season testing. 

Ferrari made an encouraging start to the first test in Barcelona as Sebastian Vettel finished nearly 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历♋史:half a second clear of the field and topped the mileag🦋e charts in the process, logging 169 laps. 

Vettel hailed the day as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:“close to perfection”, while Wolff ac𓂃knowledged Ferrari looked “ultra strong” as preparations for the new season got underway. 

“I think we have a decent package, but again it’s very early days, we don’t know what the competitive order i♕s going to be,” Wolff said. 

“Our cars have always been evolutions from the year 𝕴before and we try to package the innovative bits underneath the bodywork and also in terms of the power unit.

“We try to add solid steps, beaꦡring in mind reliability is a very important factor, not only peak performance. We feel no sense of entitlement for being top of the pack andꦗ [Monday] shows you why - the Ferrari looks ultra strong.

“You need to be disciplined because we’re all keen to look at lap time♌s, you want to be quick, and on top of th💞e leaderboard, but it’s not the purpose of the test,” he added.

“It’s to go through all the parts you want to look at, lo💞ok at what the data and sensors tell you. Yes🅘 I’ve seen [Vettel’s] time, it was very quick, two seconds quicker than anyone else. Definitely the Ferrari has been going quick.” 

Mercedes split its running of its new W10 challenger between Valtteri Bottas and reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, with the pair completing 150 laps between them across the first day. Bottas described the day as a "relatively successful" first run while Hamilton noted a 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:difference in feel compared to last year's car. 

“The first day with a n⭕ew car is always a really exciting thing and today was not a bad start,” added technical chief James Allison. “Both drivers had their firs𝓡t taste of the W10 and got 150 trouble-free laps on the board by the end of the day. 

“We managed to squeeze quite a lot in to this first da🧸y of running, finding out both how the 2019 tyres are working and also learning about the way the car responds to set-up changes. It was not about absolute pace and we're reasonably ple🥃ased with the handling of the car and the way it is behaving.”