If we learned one lesson from testing in Bahrain, it's that three days is not long enough to get a proper reading of the competitive order. But, as is the tradition at this time of the year, it hasn't stopped us trying.
Trends started to develop over the three days in Bahrain and by extrapolating those, digging into the lap times set by all ten teams and using an element of guesswork, we have come up with the following ranking of the teams ahead of the first race.
As we know from previous years, things change between testing and the first race, and the ranking below is based purely on what we saw in Bahrain rather than what might happen when the cars hit the track in the opening qualifying session.