The first week of pre-season testing in Barcelona was a complicated affair, thanks to the unexpected vagaries of the weather.
"Let's test in Spain," they said, "It'll be warm and sunny," they thought. Unbeknownst to teams and to the entire F1 community which descended upon Barcelona, a Siberian cold front would insidiously find its way to the Circuit de Catalunya.
The first four days of running of the 2018 season disrupted team's schedules and data acquisition programmes, not to mention performance, but the accumulated mileage ranking among teams yields a very surprising result.
Toro Rosso, powered by a Honda engine which couldn't get out of its own hybrid way twelve months ago at the back of the McLaren MCL32, put 324 convincing and reliable laps under its wheels!
A good omen for the Faenza-base outfit and its engine partner which appears to have made great strides in terms of development and durability over the winter.
Predictably, the usual suspects, Mercedes and Ferrari, also stacked up the miles in Spain, but Red Bull failed to join its front-running rivals and will have a fair amount of catch-up to do next week.
The same applies to Force India which clocked in with a total of just 166 laps and a lot of work still to be achieved.
Toro Rosso - 324 laps
Mercedes - 306 laps
Ferrari - 298
Sauber - 283
Williams - 276
Renault - 273
McLaren - 260
Red Bull - 209
Haas - 187
Force India - 166
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